2ND UPDATE, 1:04 PM: CNN is hosting the second Democratic debate of the 2020 presidential race, and the cable news outlet said today that it will be held July 30 and 31 in Detroit. See earlier story below for more details. UPDATED, March 28: The first Democratic debate of the 2020 presidential race will be held in…

CNN has won the hot race to land the Democratic debate in New York, which will happen in Brooklyn on April 14, five days before the New York state primary. The news ends days of the two candidates poking at each other over their willingness to debate in New York, aka Sanders’ hometown and Clinton’s “adopted&#8221…

Nearly 6 million people watched the Univision Democratic Primary Debate, simulcast on CNN last night, at which Hillary Clinton got asked by the moderator whose daughter is working for Clinton’s campaign if she’d withdraw from the race if indicated, Clinton and Bernie Sanders defied instructions to call Donald Trump…

The Democratic debate last night from Flint, MI, in which Bernie Sanders suggested a certain GOP candidate is several sandwiches short of a picnic, clocked 5.5 million viewers on CNN last night. Among adults 25-54, aka the news demo, 1.8M watched the debate moderated by Anderson Cooper. That’s a pretty steep drop from…

CNN’s Democratic debate last night, unlike Fox News Channel’s GOP fracas days earlier, was shockingly lacking in body-part boasts. And at no point did either Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders assume that John Kasich-esque look of having been drawn into the hostilities against his will. Still, the Dem debate had its…

It’s not an exaggeration to say that the 2016 election is already one of the strangest in modern memory. Fortunately for those of us possibly pulling our hair out over the increasingly surreal drama, the team behind The Simpsons has released a short video laying into the absurdities of the primary as well as the…

An average of 8.03 million total viewers watched the PBS NewsHour's Democratic debate last night, nearly doubling MSNBC’s Dem faceoff results last month. CNN simulcast the debate and nearly doubled its haul, to get to that 8M+ figure. An average of 4.1M total viewers watched on CNN as Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton…

UPDATED with video: “I love the New Hampshire primary. Every four years Iowa goes, 'How about this?' And New Hampshire goes, 'No stupid – this!'," Stephen Colbert said last night before introducing Dem White House hopeful, and New Hampshire primary winner Sen. Bernie Sanders: "And don’t you say you saw this coming!&#8221…

According to metered market Nielsen data, MSNBC ‘s Democratic debate last night clocked about 4.5 million viewers, which would be the smallest debate of the political election cycle to date. Though it was a bit of a brawl — former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton bashed Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders for his “artful…

As of this morning, no Democratic presidential debate was scheduled for the week between the Iowa caucuses and the country’s first primary in New Hampshire. Scratch that. The state’s largest newspaper said this afternoon that it will host a three-way faceoff among the Dem White House hopefuls on February 4, and MSNBC…

If there is a clear winner out of last night's Democratic Debate, it looks to be NBC, Lester Holt and Andrea Mitchell. With 10.2 million viewers tuning in on Sunday night for the fourth onstage meet-up of Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Martin O'Malley, the Comcast-owned net snagged the biggest viewership the…

The pundits are still battling over whether Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton won last night's Democratic Debate (1.9/6) on NBC, but the clear big winner on Sunday was the Denver Broncos and CBS. The team’s 23-16 comeback win over the Pittsburgh Steelers in the AFC playoffs sees Peyton Manning and crew looking at a…