Thu. 12/12 – All the Debate News You Can Handle

The DNC announces the next four debates, the polling deadline closes tonight for next week’s debate…and why it was so hard to qualify this time, who has and has not qualified for that debate, Hawaii cancels its Republican primary, a judge dismisses that lawsuit about the South Carolina Republican primary, the impeachment update, and a comparison of TV spending by the Democratic candidates.

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Links:

• Chris Higgins on Twitter
• Chris Higgins on Instagram
• Election Ride Home on Twitter
• Election Ride Home on Facebook
• Chris Higgins interview on Words Matter podcast (Words Matter Media)
• DNC tweets announcing next debates (Twitter/The Democrats)
• Why It’s Tougher To Qualify For The December Democratic Debate (FiveThirtyEight)
• Seven Candidates Have Qualified For The December Democratic Debate (FiveThirtyEight)
• Tom Steyer Statement on DNC January Debate Rules (Tom 2020)
• Castro re the rules for the debate stage (Twitter/Julián Castro)
• Live blog of impeachment inquiry news, Thursday (The Guardian)
• Live blog of impeachment inquiry news, Wednesday (The Guardian)
• House Panel Debates Impeachment Articles in Bid to Complete Charges Against Trump (NYT)
• Nadler opening statement (Twitter/C-SPAN)
• Dem leaders see only handful of defections on impeachment (Politico)
• Hawaii GOP cancels presidential preference poll, commits delegates to Trump (The Hill)
• Judge dismisses lawsuit against SC GOP for nixing 2020 presidential primary (Post and Courtier)
• South Carolina GOP ruling PDF (SC Circuit Court)
• Wright thread on Democratic primary TV spending (Twitter/David Wright)

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