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Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) told Breitbart News on Sunday evening that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) rules for qualifying for the presidential primary debates were “arbitrary” and lacked “transparency.” 

GAFFNEY, South Carolina — Former vice president Joe Biden told reporters Wednesday evening that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) debate rules were “fairer than anything that’s ever occurred.”

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) told Breitbart News exclusively she is expecting a further dramatically leftward shift from Democrats in the upcoming second presidential primary debates this week.

Democrat presidential candidates are jumping on Spanish language television for cooking and taco segments ahead of their first debates this week in Miami, Florida.

Ryan Grim told Breitbart News Saturday that populism on the left inside the Democrat Party coupled with President Donald Trump’s populist takeover of the GOP could put the donor class and establishment of both parties in a serious bind.

As many candidates are vying for the presidency, the DNC and NBC will hold two debates — one on June 26 and one on June 27.

President Donald Trump reacted to the news that the Democrat National Committee decided not to allow Fox News to host any of their primary debates.

Democrat Harley Rouda appeared to lose his debate with Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher in California’s 48th congressional district. Worse, he appeared to lose his composure.

A local media host in San Diego blasted incumbent Democrat Scott Peters (D-CA) on Wednesday morning for avoiding a debate with Republican challenger Omar Qudrat in the 52nd congressional district.

Democrat candidate Katie Hill committed a potentially serious gaffe on Saturday when she admitted that she had not learned about the Cemex issue — arguably the most important issue in California’s 25th congressional district — until recently.

Republican congressional candidate Kimberlin Brown Pelzer “came out swinging” in a debate Tuesday against incumbent Rep. Raul Ruiz (D-CA) in the 36th congressional district, which includes the Palm Springs area.

Republican John Cox and Democrat Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom square off on Monday morning for their only debate in the race for governor of California as the polls have tightened.

The League of Women Voters calls itself a “nonpartisan” organization, and is responsible for hosting hundreds of candidate forums in political races across the country this fall (and in every other election).

Democrat Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) is refusing to debate his Republican opponent, Dr. Kenneth Wright, in the race for California’s 33rd congressional district.

The so-called “resistance” to Trump continues to define Democratic Party politics across the nation, as California’s four Democratic candidates for governor in 2018 competed to show off their anti-Trump credentials at a debate in San Francisco.

PARIS (AFP) – Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was targeted by all six of his rivals in a punchy televised debate of candidates seeking to clinch the right-wing nomination for next year’s election. In far sharper exchanges than during last month’s

The word “Benghazi” was never mentioned in the first presidential debate. It was mentioned, once, in the second debate. And it was ignored again in the third debate. (The vice presidential debate ignored it, too.)

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump bounced back in the second presidential debate Sunday, hammering Democratic rival Hillary Clinton and setting up a decisive third debate at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas next Wednesday night.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was the clear winner of Sunday night’s second presidential debate at Washington University in St. Louis. However, media commentators, reacting to Trump’s win, said it would not matter.

Here are five questions that both Trump and Clinton should expect to field, either from the moderators or — in some form — from the participants in the town hall, whose questions will be pre-screened.

Donald Trump’s campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, slammed Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) for “interrupting a female moderator” at the vice presidential debate in Farmville, Virginia on Tuesday evening.

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) lost badly to Indiana Gov. Mike Pence in Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate — despite having home field advantage in Farmville, Virginia — raising new doubts about Hillary Clinton’s judgment.

Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate in Farmville, Virginia between Indiana Gov. Mike Pence and Virginia Senator Tim Kaine is not a fair fight. Pence will dominate — while the country will worry anew about Hillary Clinton’s health, given her replacement.

In the three days since the first presidential debate, Donald Trump’s critics have become increasingly shrill. The hyperbole is helping Trump set expectations that guarantee he wins the next two debates.

A close analysis of the transcript of the first presidential debate on Monday night shows that moderator Lester Holt of NBC News asked 15 questions exclusively of Republican nominee Donald Trump, and only 2 questions exclusively of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

Trump failed to talk about many of the issues on which he does best, and he failed to bring up some of Clinton’s weaknesses when he had the chance.

The mainstream media are satisfied with NBC News’ Lester Holt’s performance as moderator at the first debate of the 2016 presidential contest between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

“I will absolutely do three debates,” Donald Trump tells Time. “I want to debate very badly. But I have to see the conditions.”

Republican nominee Donald Trump is alleging that the Democratic Party is attempting to schedule general election debates that conflict with “major NFL games.”

Tuesday on Mark Levin’s radio show, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), a candidate for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, reacted to the news that the GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump would not be participating in Thursday night’s debate hosted by the Fox News Channel.

As the new year kicks off, Republican presidential candidates are scrambling to New Hampshire to make their case to voters – and to their political donors – that they belong in the race.

NEW YORK CITY, New York — GOP presidential candidate and real estate mogul Donald Trump said the Democrat’s frontrunner Hillary Clinton got “softballs” in terms of debate questions, and said Sen. Bernie Sanders gave up his strongest claim against Clinton.

Several 2016 GOP presidential campaigns are now revolting, not just against the Republican National Committee (RNC) controlling the debate process, but against controversial GOP establishment lawyer Ben Ginsberg’s efforts to insert himself into the process.

The 2016 GOP presidential campaigns agreed on Sunday evening to cut the Republican National Committee (RNC) out of the debate negotiation process and instead deal directly with networks moderating debates, Breitbart News has learned.

Emails among campaigns meeting this evening just outside Washington, D.C., to discuss the 2016 GOP primary debate structure moving forward, obtained exclusively by Breitbart News, prove that it was the campaign of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) that invited highly controversial lawyer Ben Ginsberg to the gathering.

As if we need more proof of how tone deaf and self-destructive GOP elites can be towards their most reliable voters, the New York Times reports that at a weekend meeting of the Republican Governors Association there was an attempt