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EXCLUSIVE: As other Democratic candidates race to qualify for the next debates less than a month away, one candidate who definitely is in, donor favorite Mayor Pete Buttigieg, will be making another Hollywood fundraising swing, as will Sen. Kamala Harris. The mayor of South Bend, IN, is scheduled to headline a…

EXCLUSIVE The Daily Show with Trevor Noah will go live following the next round of Democratic debates on Thursday, September 12, giving the host the first opportunity among late-night shows to take on the presidential hopefuls. Noah will air live at 11 p.m. ET on Comedy Central as part of his show’s ongoing Votegasm…

Stephen Colbert closed his second of two live Late Show monologues with a spree of zingers directed at Joe Biden, mixing in plenty for the other nine candidates on the Democratic debate stage. None of the bits drew blood, but the big takeaway was that front-runner Joe Biden makes for an irresistible comedic…

Donald Trump loves to mock the former vice president of the United States as "Sleepy Joe," but coming off a less-than-stellar performance during the last debate, Joe Biden was aiming for full Joe Frazier mode in the Motor City tonight against his relentless rivals with some Rope-a-Dope moves too. Unmentioned last…

President Donald Trump is famous to tweeting while he’s watching TV, which seems like most of the time. Tonight he was watching Night 2 of the Democratic debate on CNN and apparently took issue with the candidates’ take on his administration’s policy of separating migrant families. You could almost hear Stephen…

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, who famously squared off during a Democratic debate last month, immediately were pitted against each other to start tonight’s faceoff of White House hopefuls in Detroit on CNN. The pair greeted each other warmly during the candidate introduction, and Biden took the opportunity to say to…

The Daily Show and host Trevor Noah are at it again on Twitter, skewering the sometimes pompous politicians who are facing off in tonight’s Democratic presidential candidate debates. The irreverence was flowing via Twitter, as the social media team took on the high and mighty and found some comedy gold in their…

Sen. Cory Booker was in the middle of his opening statement at tonight’s Democratic debate when he was interrupted by protesters’ shouts from the audience. The lawmaker from New Jersey stopped speaking, and CNN and its moderators waited for the heckling to play out. At least three protesters yelled slogans including…

Donald Trump has renewed his attacks on CNN’s Don Lemon, one of the moderators for Tuesday night’s Democratic presidential debate, calling Lemon, whose intelligence he has questioned before, “the dumbest man on television.” Insisting he (Trump) is “the least racist person in the world,” Trump’s 2-part tweet followed…

Senator Elizabeth Warren and spiritualist Marianne Williamson had a good night in the first of the second round of Democratic debates but CNN distinctly did not. Already heavily criticized for the fast paced and shallow format of the Jake Tapper, Dana Bash and Don Lemon moderated shindig, the Jeff Zucker-run cabler…

In a two-part Late Show monologue, Stephen Colbert offered a clip- and quip-heavy breakdown of the first night of the CNN-hosted 2020 Democratic presidential debate. The candidates faced off at the Fox Theatre in Detroit on Tuesday, with 10 White House hopefuls taking the stage. Another 10 are on deck for tonight’s…

The first night of the Democrats' second round of presidential debates of the 2020 election cycle was billed as a matchup between Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, and the two contenders did not disappoint on the CNN-hosted huddle as they faced The Bachelorette season finale on ABC. In tone and temperament, the two…