#Julián Ezra

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OCS in cookie run’s artstyle ! Had so much fun drawing this

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the fan tag game

Tagged by @aint-that-a-mcfreakin-bitch​, thank you bab! ❤️

Answer the questions and tag ten people you want to get to know better:

Three tv shows I would have joined friend groups in: Derry Girls, Firefly, Stranger Things

Three animated universes I wouldn’t have minded living in: The Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea, Kirikou and the Sorceress (fully recommend all three of these. absolutely beautiful)

Three fictional characters I relate to: ashoka tano (the clone wars), amy pond (doctor who), robin buckley (stranger things)

Three fictional characters I wouldn’t vibe with: ezra (like we really wouldn’t get along, no matter how much i love him), ola nyman (sex education), julián de la mora (la casa de las flores)

Three fictional characters I would be good friends with: erin (derry girls), maeve wiley (sex education), kaylee frye (firefly)

Three fictional characters I would probably most definitely have romantic feelings for: elizabeth swann (pirates of the caribbean), javier peña (narcos), captain jack harkness (doctor who/torchwood)

Three villains I’d want to have a chat with over coffee: moriarty (sherlock), akmazian (eos 10. okay he’s not really a villain but i’m counting it cause i love him), elphaba (wicked)

Three superheroes I’d want to be for a day: captain marvel | carol danvers, wiccan | billy kaplan, marvel boy | noh-varr

Three abilities I would want to have: teleportation, invisibility, shapeshifting

Three ships I sail as the fierce and feared captain I am: remus lupin x sirius black (harry potter), bitty x jack zimmerman (check please!), lee adama x kara thrace (battlestar galactica) 

Three fictional female characters I feel empowered by: elizabeth swann (pirates of the caribbean), inara serra (firefly), ana maría carranza dávila (monarca)

Three fictional male characters with good ethics and morals I believe deserve more recognition: dustin henderson (stranger things), james (derry girls), hoban ‘wash’ washburne (firefly)

Three fictional lgbtq+ characters I would take bullets for: eric effiong (sex education), captain jack harkness (doctor who/torchwood), sabina wilson (charlies angels, 2019, i don’t remember if she was explicitly lgbtq but i’m pretty sure she was, and if not, i still believe its canon)... (also clarke and lexa from the 100)

Three fictional places I would have liked to visit: hogwarts, naboo, wonderland

Three costumes worn by fictional characters I would have rocked: the battlestar galactica pilots uniforms!, padme amidalas badass queen outfits!,  OH HOLY SHIT the 12th doctors thing!! i would rock that.

Three characterization tropes to describe myself: oblivious to love, redhead in green (feeling called OUT), i hate past me

shit that took a long time this was kind of difficult but really fun!

if i tag you no pressure at all to do this

Tagging: @letaliabane, @hystericalmedicine, @opheliaelysia, @rzrcrst, @kawaiitimecharm, @spacedadheadcanons, @flapjacques, @xmaslightsandmarvelfics, @murdermewithbooks

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via Politics – FiveThirtyEight

I have a dilemma for you, dear reader. I have a righteous little bulletpoint-sized rant to make about ill-informed media coverage of polling in the recent Australian election. But this column, Silver Bulletpoints, promises to give you three items about the 2020 Democratic primary in 300 words or less. And while I’m sure Pete Buttigieg speaks fluent Guugu Yimithirr or something, the Democratic primary doesn’t really have much to do with Australia. So instead of using up one of this week’s bulletpoints on Australia, we’re including a bonus Australia-related bulletpoint at the end of this week’s column. For now, though, let’s stick with the Democrats …

Bulletpoint No. 1: Actually, maybe the moderate Democrats are more popular with swing voters

Be careful with general election polls for candidates who aren’t well-known.

At Vox this week, Ezra Klein — I’m usually a fan — points out that Bernie Sanders is doing second-best among Democrats in head-to-head polls against President Trump (worse than Joe Biden but better than everyone else). This is true as far it goes, at least if you ignore a couple of outlier-ish polls for Beto O’Rourke.

This challenges the theory, Ezra says, that “Americans are ideological moderates who punish political parties for nominating candidates too far to the left or right.”

The problem is that none of the other Democrats have the near-universal name recognition that Sanders and Biden enjoy. And people are reluctant to say they’ll vote for candidates who they don’t know much about. For instance, Trump gets about 44 percent in polls against both the well-known Sanders and the relatively unknown Buttigieg. Sanders is ahead by a larger margin — but it’s because he gets 49 percent whereas Buttigieg gets 44 percent with a lot more undecideds, probably including a lot of people who would vote for Buttigieg if they knew who he was.

An alternative is to look at candidates’ favorability ratings among the general electorate, which give voters the option of saying they don’t know enough to have an opinion about a candidate. Here’s an average of those polls since Biden entered the race:

Biden, Buttigieg have most positive favorability ratings

Average of favorability ratings in polls conducted wholly or partly since Biden entered the race

Candidate Favorable Unfavorable Net Joe Biden 50.4% 39.8% +10.6 Pete Buttigieg 28.3 24.5 +3.8 Julián Castro 20.7 20.3 +0.3 Bernie Sanders 45.3 45.5 -0.3 Marianne Williamson 11.7 12.3 -0.7 Tim Ryan 15.0 15.8 -0.8 Jay Inslee 13.7 14.7 -1.0 Kamala Harris 34.2 36.2 -2.0 Andrew Yang 14.3 17.0 -2.7 Michael Bennet 12.0 15.0 -3.0 Amy Klobuchar 21.0 24.3 -3.3 Cory Booker 28.0 31.5 -3.5 Steve Bullock 9.5 13.5 -4.0 John Delaney 10.3 14.7 -4.3 John Hickenlooper 13.3 18.3 -5.0 Beto O’Rourke 28.5 33.8 -5.3 Eric Swalwell 12.3 17.5 -5.3 Seth Moulton 7.3 12.8 -5.5 Elizabeth Warren 35.2 40.8 -5.6 Kirsten Gillibrand 21.5 28.5 -7.0 Tulsi Gabbard 13.0 20.7 -7.7 Bill de Blasio 13.5 45.5 -32.0

Polls are included if they were still in the field when Biden entered the race on April 25. If a pollster asked about a candidate multiple times, only the most recent poll was used. Polls included in the average include YouGov (registered voters), CNN/SSRS (registered voters), Gallup (adults), Rasmussen Reports (likely voters), HarrisX / Harris Interactive (registered voters) and Quinnipiac (registered voters). Not all pollsters asked about all of the candidates, but each candidate was included in at least 2 polls.

Source: polls

Sanders’s numbers are decent — but in general moderate candidates have slightly better favorables. Buttigeg’s net-favorable ratings are a little better than Sanders, for instance, and Biden, Buttigieg and Julián Castro are the only Democrats with net-positive ratings. The worst ratings belong to liberal candidates such as Kirsten Gillibrand (who has opposed Trump more often than any other senator) and, especially, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Bulletpoint No. 2: High-information voters love Elizabeth Warren — and not Bernie Sanders

In a previous Silver Bulletpoints, I asked whether candidates who are popular among high-education voters, such as Buttigieg and Elizabeth Warren, are also popular among high-information voters. There’s no particular advantage to overperforming with college-educated voters; almost 65 percent of voters in the 2016 Democratic primaries did not have a four-year college degree. But doing well with high-information voters is usually a bullish sign. These voters are more likely to judge the candidates on factors beyond name recognition, and so may be leading indicators for how other voters will view the race once they’ve acquired more information. Moreover, high-information voters are more likely to eventually turn out to vote.

Quinnipiac addressed this in their most recent poll, asking Democrats how much attention they’ve been paying to the campaign and breaking out their topline results on that basis. Among voters paying a lot of attention to the campaign, Warren got 15 percent of the vote, and Sanders got just 8 percent. Among voters who are paying little or no attention, however, Warren got just 5 percent of the vote against Sanders’s 28 percent.

Warren, Biden gain ground among high-information voters

Share of Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters who supported each candidate, by how much attention they’ve been paying to the election campaign for president

Attention being paid to election Candidate Overall A lot Some Little / none Biden 35% 42% 33% 23% Warren 13 15 16 5 Harris 8 9 8 5 Buttigieg 5 9 3 1 Sanders 16 8 19 28 O’Rourke 2 3 1 2 Booker 3 2 2 4 de Blasio — 1 1 — Klobuchar 2 1 1 6 Gillibrand — 1 — — Gabbard 1 1 — 2 Yang 1 — 2 1 Hickenlooper — — 1 — Bennett — — 1 — Bullock — — 1 — Castro 1 — 1 1 Inslee — — — — Delaney — — — — Williamson — — — — Messam — — — — Swalwell — — — — Ryan — — — — Moulton — — — —

Poll dates from May 16-20, 2019

Source: Quinnipiac

Some of this is age-related — younger voters aren’t paying as much attention yet — but It’s hard not to see it as a bearish indicator for Sanders. Voters have a lot more alternatives than four years ago, and former Sanders voters who have started their shopping process already have often come home with candidates like Warren or Buttigieg instead. That includes voters in Sanders’s core constituency, very liberal voters, who preferred Warren over Sanders 30-22 in the Quinnipiac poll.

Does something similar hold for Biden? Actually not. To my surprise, Biden did a little better with high-information voters than with the electorate overall in this poll. Maybe it’s Sanders, and not Biden, whose support has been propped up by name recognition.

Bulletpoint No. 3: I’m adding Bill de Blasio to my presidential tiers — he’s in the very bottom tier

It’s not clear that anything major has changed since Biden entered the race a month ago. Biden’s post-announcement polling bounce has probably faded a bit, but polling bounces usually do. Warren has continued to gain ground a point or so at a time, but it’s been a slow burn. Whatever happened over the past few weeks will probably pale in comparison to the polling movement after the debates, which begin next month. So while I’ve been looking for excuses to update my presidential tiers, I can’t really find any.

Three additional candidates — Bill de Blasio, Steve Bullock and Michael Bennet — have entered since Biden, however. Of these, I’d probably consider Bullock the most viable because he can make a fairly strong electability argument, having been elected to two terms as Montana’s governor. But I’m not going to stake much on that until he breaks out of the asterisk range in polls.

Nate’s not-to-be-taken-too-seriously presidential tiers

For the Democratic nomination, as revised on May 23, 2019

Tier Sub-tier Candidates 1 a Biden b [this row intentionally left blank] c Harris, Sanders, Warren, Buttigieg 2 a O’Rourke b Booker, Klobuchar, Abrams* 3 a Yang, Castro, Gillibrand, Inslee b Bullock, Hickenlooper, Ryan, de Blasio ↑, Bennet, Gabbard

* Candidate is not yet officially running but is may still do so.

So the only change I’m making is to add de Blasio to the list, but only in the very bottom tier. (That does put him ahead of the likes of Eric Swalwell, Seth Moulton, Marianne Williamson and John Delaney, who aren’t listed.) As we discussed on this week’s podcast, de Blasio has a fairly interesting resume. Being mayor of New York City is no small thing, and he has some progressive accomplishments and was re-elected by 39 points in 2017. Some job candidates make a bad first impression no matter how good their resumes, however. Judging by those favorability ratings, de Blasio — with no help from the New York-based media, with whom he has an adversarial relationship — is one of them.

Bonus bulletpoint: Something is rotten down under, and it isn’t the polls

So what was that about Australia? Stop me if this one sounds familiar.

Polls showed the conservative-led coalition trailing the Australian Labor Party approximately 51-49 in the two-party preferred vote. Instead, the conservatives won 51-49. That’s a relatively small miss: The conservatives trailed by 2 points in the polls, and instead they won by 2, making for a 4-point error. The miss was right in line with the average error from past Australian elections, which has averaged about 5 points. Given that track record, the conservatives had somewhere around a 1 in 3 chance of winning.

So the Australian media took this in stride, right? Of course not. Instead, the election was characterized as a “massive polling failure” and a “shock result”.

When journalists say stuff like that in an election after polls were so close, they’re telling on themselves. They’re revealing, like their American counterparts after 2016, that they aren’t particularly numerate and didn’t really understand what the polls said in the first place. They may also be signaling, as in the case of Brexit in 2016, their cosmopolitan bias; the Australian election, which emphasized climate change, had a strong urban-rural split.

Dig in deeper, and you can find things to criticize in the polls. In particular, they showed signs of herding: all the polls showed almost exactly the same result in a way that’s statistically implausible. If Labor was ahead by only 2 points, a few polls should have shown conservatives winning just by chance alone because of sampling error.

Still, some of the headlines in the Australian media are idiotic and embarrassing. When polls show a race within a couple of percentage points, nobody — least of all journalists, who are paid to be informed about this stuff — should be shocked when the trailing side wins.

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Julian Is A Mermaid

Winner of a 2019 Stonewall Book Award 

Ezra Jack Keats New Writer/Illustrator Award HONOR 2019 In an exuberant picture book, a glimpse of costumed mermaids leaves one boy flooded with wonder and ready to dazzle the world. ‘While riding the subway home from the pool with his abuela one day, Julián notices three women spectacularly dressed up. Their hair billows in brilliant hues, their dresses end in fishtails, and their joy fills the train car. When Julián gets home, daydreaming of the magic he’s seen, all he can think about is dressing up just like the ladies in his own fabulous mermaid costume: a butter-yellow curtain for his tail, the fronds of a potted fern for his headdress. But what will Abuela think about the mess he makes — and even more importantly, what will she think about how Julián sees himself? Mesmerizing and full of heart, Jessica Love’s author-illustrator debut is a jubilant picture of self-love and a radiant celebration of individuality’ This is Jessica Love’s debut picture book, and every choice she makes — the spare text, a color palette both muted and lively, full-bleed pages that make even subway cars and apartment rooms feel as expansive as the ocean — imbues the story with charm, tenderness and humor…Alongside Julián, readers learn that anyone can be a mermaid: All it takes is love and acceptance, a little imagination and a big swishy tail. -The New York Times Book Review The illustrations couldn’t be more beautiful, and I love how Julián’s grandmother accepts him for exactly who he is…I’m so grateful for books like these that help foster acceptance and understanding from a young age.- A Cup of Jo  It’s a story of a little boy who is taken with some elegant costumes, and decides to fashion one of his own. It’s that simple, but it makes a big impression; I can’t recommend it highly enough.-The New York Times Book Review

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CALIFICACIÓN PERSONAL: 7 / 10

Título Original: The Boy Behind the Door

Año: 2020

Duración: 88 min

País: Estados Unidos

Director: David Charbonier, Justin Powell

Guion: David Charbonier, Justin Powell

Música: Anton Sanko

Fotografía: Julián Estrada

Reparto: Lonnie Chavis, Ezra Dewey, Kristin Bauer van Straten, Scott Michael Foster, Micah Hauptman

Productora: Whitewater Films

Género: Mistery, Horror, Thriller

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10772662/

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Here’s how to listen to every Vox podcast interview with a 2020 Democratic candidate

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From Buttigieg on rural America to Warren on breaking up Big Tech, these episodes dive into how candidates think about policies that affect your lives.

Democratic veterans and newcomers alike have lined up to challenge President Trump in the 2020 election. With the field more crowded than it’s been in years, it can be easy to get lost in the horse race — and hard to keep track of where candidates stand on the issues that affect people’s lives.

Enter Vox’s expanding stable of thought-provoking podcasts.

From South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg talking about climate change and rural America on Recode Decode to Sen. Elizabeth Warren sharing her plan to break up Big Tech on The Ezra Klein Show, here are nine Vox podcast episodes that will help you learn how the candidates think about policies that affect your lives. Happy listening.

Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO)

Recode Decode: Michael Bennet talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about the intersection of social media and politics, and running for president in 2020. This episode includes discussion of Denver schools and the racial education gap; Bennet’s assessment of his past 10 years in the Senate; why people voted for Trump; the changes in Washington; and why Frederick Douglass (and you) are founders of America.

Swisher and Bennet also talk about why Bennet believes he can win; politicians who over-index on Twitter and the “downward spiral” of social media; “the Russians, for Christ’s sake”; whether tech companies should be broken up; Facebook’s regulation of speech; keeping America innovative; fixing education; the 90 percent of Americans not benefiting from economic growth; universal health care; why a Democrat can win in 2020; and Kamala Harris in the first Democratic debates.

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The Ezra Klein Show: “I’m not sure what I expected Sen. Michael Bennet’s answer to be when I asked him why he was running for president,” says Ezra Klein. “I didn’t expect it to be ‘Mitch McConnell.’” Since arriving in the Senate in 2009, Bennet has built a reputation as a senator’s senator. He’s smart and measured, thoughtful on policy, and good at working across the aisle. Klein mentions that he’s had colleagues say they wish Bennet would run for president, that he’s the kind of guy the country needs.

But Bennet has been radicalized. He believes America’s government is broken. So what happens when you radicalize a moderate? How far will an institutionalist go to save the institutions he loves? And at what point do you decide the problem is inside the institutions themselves?

That’s the conversation, and at times argument, Bennet and Klein have in this podcast, and it’s an important one. Bennet’s critique is angry and sweeping. But are his solutions as big as the problem he identifies? They also talk about his plan to end extreme childhood poverty, which Klein thinks is one of the most important proposals in the race, his view that rural America is the key to passing climate legislation, why he opposes Medicare-for-all, what to do about the filibuster, and much more.

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Worldly: Zack Beauchamp hosts Sen. Michael Bennet — the first Democratic presidential candidate to appear on Worldly. Their conversation ranges from big picture conversations about the global threat to liberal democracy to policy details on America’s troubled alliances with Israel and Saudi Arabia to why Sen. Bennet thinks Facebook should be understood as a national security threat.

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South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg

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Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg greets residents before the start of a Peace Walk hosted by Christ Temple Apostolic Church on June 29, 2019, in South Bend, Indiana.

Recode Decode: Pete Buttigieg talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about his campaign for president of the United States. They touch on systemic racism and Buttigieg’s “Douglass Plan”; mobilizing black women voters; how to appeal to Trump supporters who wanted to “burn the house down”; reforming the Supreme Court; the “mystical fascination” with the Rust Belt; climate change and rural America; and why Buttigieg hasn’t attacked tech as much as some of his opponents.

Should Americans have a right to be forgotten online? Will more regulation make it harder to compete with China? Buttigieg answers those questions, along with talking about recognizing gig workers as employees with the right to unionize and his wealthy tech donors. Also covered: being gay in the military, and whether voters will care that Buttigieg is gay; plus his husband and LGBTQ visibility in politics. And lastly, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Squad” versus Nancy Pelosi; and Buttigieg’s favorite president, Abraham Lincoln.

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The Ezra Klein Show: There’s been plenty of discussion of Buttigieg’s biography, and of whether a midsize-city mayorship is appropriate experience for the presidency. But Klein wanted to talk to him about something else: his theory of political change. How, in a broken system, would he get done even a fraction of what he’s promising? “To my surprise,” Klein writes, “he actually had an answer. Before I did this podcast, I was surprised to see Buttigieg catching fire. Now that I’ve had this conversation, I’m not.”

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The Weeds: The South Bend mayor joins host Matt Yglesias to discuss his latest prescription drug plan policy rollout and his broader thinking on health care.

The Weeds: Buttigieg also joined co-hosts Matt Yglesias, Jane Coaston, and Dara Lind to talk about revitalizing the Midwest without nostalgia, his case for prioritizing political reform, and the potential meaning of generational change from the first millennial to run for president.

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Former San Antonio mayor and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro

The Ezra Klein Show: “I’m careful about inviting politicians onto this podcast,” says Ezra Klein. “Too often, questions go unanswered, and frustrated emails flood my inbox. So I only bring on candidates now if there’s a conversation directly related to themes of this show. In this case, there is.

There’s a quiet moral radicalism powering Julián Castro’s presidential campaign. Laced through his policy agenda are proposals to decriminalize the movements of undocumented immigrants, to involve the homeless in housing policy, to establish American obligations to those displaced by climate change, to protect animals from human cruelty.

This is an agenda to expand the moral circle, to redefine who counts in the ‘we’ of American politics. I asked Castro if this wasn’t all a step too far, if Democrats didn’t need to play it safer to eject Trump from office in 2020. This broader moral vision, he replied, ‘is not just trying to backfill the negative. It gives people a positive purpose that they can reach for. That’s what I’m trying to do.’ This is a candidate interview worth hearing.”

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The Weeds: The former HUD Secretary and San Antonio mayor joins co-hosts Matt Yglesias, Jane Coaston, and Dara Lind for a very deep dive into federal housing policy, plus his views on immigration, presidential personnel, and how to set priorities.

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Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)

Recode Decode: Amy Klobuchar talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher in front of a live audience at South by Southwest. In this episode, Klobuchar and Swisher discuss the infamous comb incident; why Klobuchar thinks she can win; Big Pharma and Big Tech; and why Klobuchar is aiming for the center while her fellow Democrats are pulling left.

You’ll also hear what Klobuchar learned from studying Hillary Clinton’s 2016 loss; her thoughts on the crowded Democratic field; and more about the need for urgent action on climate change. Policy discussions include Elizabeth Warren’s proposal to break up the tech companies and Klobuchar’s own agenda for tech; whether she thinks Facebook and Google should be broken up; the prospects of a federal data privacy bill; and whether she trusts tech companies.

Also in this episode: Paul Manafort’s initial prison sentence; the Mueller report; President Trump’s coziness with Vladimir Putin and his attacks on the press; impeachment; Rep. Ilhan Omar’s comments on Israel; and which politicians Klobuchar looks up to.

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)

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Democratic presidential hopeful US Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) speaks during the AARP and Des Moines Register Iowa Presidential Candidate Forum on July 19, 2019, in Sioux City, Iowa.

The Ezra Klein Show: Oligarchic capitalism? Elizabeth Warren has a plan for that. Opioid deaths? She’s got a plan for that too. Same is true for high housing costs, offshoring, child care, breaking up Big Tech, curbing congressional corruption, indicting presidents, strengthening reproductive rights, forgiving student loans, providing debt relief to Puerto Rico, and fixing the love lives of some of her Twitter followers. Seriously.

But how is Warren going to pass any of these plans? Which policy would she prioritize? What presidential powers would she leverage? What argument would she make to her fellow Senate Democrats to convince them to abolish the filibuster? What will she do if Mitch McConnell still leads the Senate? What about climate change? Ezra Klein caught her on a campaign swing through California to ask her about that meta-plan. The plan behind her plans. Warren’s easy fluency with policy is on full display here, but it’s her systematic thinking about the nature of power, and what it takes to redistribute it, that really sets her apart from the field. We don’t want to shock you, but: She’s got a plan for that too.

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Author and spiritual adviser Marianne Williamson

Recode Decode: Marianne Williamson talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about her campaign to be the Democratic nominee for president in 2020. Williamson explains why she’s still in the race even though she didn’t qualify for the third debate and talks about what she has learned from running as an non-establishment candidate; negativity and anger on social media; and how she thinks about the tech industry — and vice versa. She and Swisher also discuss her entrepreneurial journey; her divisive comments about religion, vaccines, and medication; and what Williamson would do if she were CEO of Twitter.

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Entrepreneur and Venture for America founder Andrew Yang

Recode Decode: Andrew Yang talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about his campaign to be the Democratic nominee in the 2020 presidential race. This episode includes Yang’s thoughts on being “the tech candidate” during the techlash; the #YangGang; his version of universal basic income, the Freedom Dividend, and the challenges of UBI and how to convince people that it’s a good idea. Swisher and Yang also cover job automation and the “robot apocalypse”; why the unemployment rate isn’t as low as you think; what future jobs will look like; and Yang’s vision of “human-centered capitalism.”

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Former 2020 Democratic candidates

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio

Recode Decode: Bill de Blasio, the mayor of New York City, talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about why he’s still running for the Democratic nomination in 2020; the threat of job automation and his proposed “robot tax”; and how de Blasio thinks about the future of transit in New York and beyond. He also talks about how the plan for New York to become one of Amazon’s “HQ2” locations fell apart, and why he supports both a national privacy bill and tougher antitrust action against Facebook and Google.

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Here’s how to listen to every Vox podcast interview with a 2020 Democratic candidate

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From Buttigieg on rural America to Warren on breaking up Big Tech, these episodes dive into how candidates think about policies that affect your lives.

Democratic veterans and newcomers alike have lined up to challenge President Trump in the 2020 election. With the field more crowded than it’s been in years, it can be easy to get lost in the horse race — and hard to keep track of where candidates stand on the issues that affect people’s lives.

Enter Vox’s expanding stable of thought-provoking podcasts.

From South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg talking about climate change and rural America on Recode Decode to Sen. Elizabeth Warren sharing her plan to break up Big Tech on The Ezra Klein Show, here are nine Vox podcast episodes that will help you learn how the candidates think about policies that affect your lives. Happy listening.

Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO)

Recode Decode: Michael Bennet talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about the intersection of social media and politics, and running for president in 2020. This episode includes discussion of Denver schools and the racial education gap; Bennet’s assessment of his past 10 years in the Senate; why people voted for Trump; the changes in Washington; and why Frederick Douglass (and you) are founders of America.

Swisher and Bennet also talk about why Bennet believes he can win; politicians who over-index on Twitter and the “downward spiral” of social media; “the Russians, for Christ’s sake”; whether tech companies should be broken up; Facebook’s regulation of speech; keeping America innovative; fixing education; the 90 percent of Americans not benefiting from economic growth; universal health care; why a Democrat can win in 2020; and Kamala Harris in the first Democratic debates.

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The Ezra Klein Show: “I’m not sure what I expected Sen. Michael Bennet’s answer to be when I asked him why he was running for president,” says Ezra Klein. “I didn’t expect it to be ‘Mitch McConnell.’” Since arriving in the Senate in 2009, Bennet has built a reputation as a senator’s senator. He’s smart and measured, thoughtful on policy, and good at working across the aisle. Klein mentions that he’s had colleagues say they wish Bennet would run for president, that he’s the kind of guy the country needs.

But Bennet has been radicalized. He believes America’s government is broken. So what happens when you radicalize a moderate? How far will an institutionalist go to save the institutions he loves? And at what point do you decide the problem is inside the institutions themselves?

That’s the conversation, and at times argument, Bennet and Klein have in this podcast, and it’s an important one. Bennet’s critique is angry and sweeping. But are his solutions as big as the problem he identifies? They also talk about his plan to end extreme childhood poverty, which Klein thinks is one of the most important proposals in the race, his view that rural America is the key to passing climate legislation, why he opposes Medicare-for-all, what to do about the filibuster, and much more.

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Worldly: Zack Beauchamp hosts Sen. Michael Bennet — the first Democratic presidential candidate to appear on Worldly. Their conversation ranges from big picture conversations about the global threat to liberal democracy to policy details on America’s troubled alliances with Israel and Saudi Arabia to why Sen. Bennet thinks Facebook should be understood as a national security threat.

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | TuneIn

South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg

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Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg greets residents before the start of a Peace Walk hosted by Christ Temple Apostolic Church on June 29, 2019, in South Bend, Indiana.

Recode Decode: Pete Buttigieg talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about his campaign for president of the United States. They touch on systemic racism and Buttigieg’s “Douglass Plan”; mobilizing black women voters; how to appeal to Trump supporters who wanted to “burn the house down”; reforming the Supreme Court; the “mystical fascination” with the Rust Belt; climate change and rural America; and why Buttigieg hasn’t attacked tech as much as some of his opponents.

Should Americans have a right to be forgotten online? Will more regulation make it harder to compete with China? Buttigieg answers those questions, along with talking about recognizing gig workers as employees with the right to unionize and his wealthy tech donors. Also covered: being gay in the military, and whether voters will care that Buttigieg is gay; plus his husband and LGBTQ visibility in politics. And lastly, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Squad” versus Nancy Pelosi; and Buttigieg’s favorite president, Abraham Lincoln.

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The Ezra Klein Show: There’s been plenty of discussion of Buttigieg’s biography, and of whether a midsize-city mayorship is appropriate experience for the presidency. But Klein wanted to talk to him about something else: his theory of political change. How, in a broken system, would he get done even a fraction of what he’s promising? “To my surprise,” Klein writes, “he actually had an answer. Before I did this podcast, I was surprised to see Buttigieg catching fire. Now that I’ve had this conversation, I’m not.”

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The Weeds: The South Bend mayor joins host Matt Yglesias to discuss his latest prescription drug plan policy rollout and his broader thinking on health care.

The Weeds: Buttigieg also joined co-hosts Matt Yglesias, Jane Coaston, and Dara Lind to talk about revitalizing the Midwest without nostalgia, his case for prioritizing political reform, and the potential meaning of generational change from the first millennial to run for president.

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Former San Antonio mayor and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro

The Ezra Klein Show: “I’m careful about inviting politicians onto this podcast,” says Ezra Klein. “Too often, questions go unanswered, and frustrated emails flood my inbox. So I only bring on candidates now if there’s a conversation directly related to themes of this show. In this case, there is.

There’s a quiet moral radicalism powering Julián Castro’s presidential campaign. Laced through his policy agenda are proposals to decriminalize the movements of undocumented immigrants, to involve the homeless in housing policy, to establish American obligations to those displaced by climate change, to protect animals from human cruelty.

This is an agenda to expand the moral circle, to redefine who counts in the ‘we’ of American politics. I asked Castro if this wasn’t all a step too far, if Democrats didn’t need to play it safer to eject Trump from office in 2020. This broader moral vision, he replied, ‘is not just trying to backfill the negative. It gives people a positive purpose that they can reach for. That’s what I’m trying to do.’ This is a candidate interview worth hearing.”

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The Weeds: The former HUD Secretary and San Antonio mayor joins co-hosts Matt Yglesias, Jane Coaston, and Dara Lind for a very deep dive into federal housing policy, plus his views on immigration, presidential personnel, and how to set priorities.

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Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)

Recode Decode: Amy Klobuchar talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher in front of a live audience at South by Southwest. In this episode, Klobuchar and Swisher discuss the infamous comb incident; why Klobuchar thinks she can win; Big Pharma and Big Tech; and why Klobuchar is aiming for the center while her fellow Democrats are pulling left.

You’ll also hear what Klobuchar learned from studying Hillary Clinton’s 2016 loss; her thoughts on the crowded Democratic field; and more about the need for urgent action on climate change. Policy discussions include Elizabeth Warren’s proposal to break up the tech companies and Klobuchar’s own agenda for tech; whether she thinks Facebook and Google should be broken up; the prospects of a federal data privacy bill; and whether she trusts tech companies.

Also in this episode: Paul Manafort’s initial prison sentence; the Mueller report; President Trump’s coziness with Vladimir Putin and his attacks on the press; impeachment; Rep. Ilhan Omar’s comments on Israel; and which politicians Klobuchar looks up to.

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)

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Democratic presidential hopeful US Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) speaks during the AARP and Des Moines Register Iowa Presidential Candidate Forum on July 19, 2019, in Sioux City, Iowa.

The Ezra Klein Show: Oligarchic capitalism? Elizabeth Warren has a plan for that. Opioid deaths? She’s got a plan for that too. Same is true for high housing costs, offshoring, child care, breaking up Big Tech, curbing congressional corruption, indicting presidents, strengthening reproductive rights, forgiving student loans, providing debt relief to Puerto Rico, and fixing the love lives of some of her Twitter followers. Seriously.

But how is Warren going to pass any of these plans? Which policy would she prioritize? What presidential powers would she leverage? What argument would she make to her fellow Senate Democrats to convince them to abolish the filibuster? What will she do if Mitch McConnell still leads the Senate? What about climate change? Ezra Klein caught her on a campaign swing through California to ask her about that meta-plan. The plan behind her plans. Warren’s easy fluency with policy is on full display here, but it’s her systematic thinking about the nature of power, and what it takes to redistribute it, that really sets her apart from the field. We don’t want to shock you, but: She’s got a plan for that too.

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Author and spiritual adviser Marianne Williamson

Recode Decode: Marianne Williamson talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about her campaign to be the Democratic nominee for president in 2020. Williamson explains why she’s still in the race even though she didn’t qualify for the third debate and talks about what she has learned from running as an non-establishment candidate; negativity and anger on social media; and how she thinks about the tech industry — and vice versa. She and Swisher also discuss her entrepreneurial journey; her divisive comments about religion, vaccines, and medication; and what Williamson would do if she were CEO of Twitter.

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Entrepreneur and Venture for America founder Andrew Yang

Recode Decode: Andrew Yang talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about his campaign to be the Democratic nominee in the 2020 presidential race. This episode includes Yang’s thoughts on being “the tech candidate” during the techlash; the #YangGang; his version of universal basic income, the Freedom Dividend, and the challenges of UBI and how to convince people that it’s a good idea. Swisher and Yang also cover job automation and the “robot apocalypse”; why the unemployment rate isn’t as low as you think; what future jobs will look like; and Yang’s vision of “human-centered capitalism.”

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Former 2020 Democratic candidates

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio

Recode Decode: Bill de Blasio, the mayor of New York City, talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about why he’s still running for the Democratic nomination in 2020; the threat of job automation and his proposed “robot tax”; and how de Blasio thinks about the future of transit in New York and beyond. He also talks about how the plan for New York to become one of Amazon’s “HQ2” locations fell apart, and why he supports both a national privacy bill and tougher antitrust action against Facebook and Google.

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Here’s how to listen to every Vox podcast interview with a 2020 Democratic candidate

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From Buttigieg on rural America to Warren on breaking up Big Tech, these episodes dive into how candidates think about policies that affect your lives.

Democratic veterans and newcomers alike have lined up to challenge President Trump in the 2020 election. With the field more crowded than it’s been in years, it can be easy to get lost in the horse race — and hard to keep track of where candidates stand on the issues that affect people’s lives.

Enter Vox’s expanding stable of thought-provoking podcasts.

From South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg talking about climate change and rural America on Recode Decode to Sen. Elizabeth Warren sharing her plan to break up Big Tech on The Ezra Klein Show, here are nine Vox podcast episodes that will help you learn how the candidates think about policies that affect your lives. Happy listening.

Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO)

Recode Decode: Michael Bennet talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about the intersection of social media and politics, and running for president in 2020. This episode includes discussion of Denver schools and the racial education gap; Bennet’s assessment of his past 10 years in the Senate; why people voted for Trump; the changes in Washington; and why Frederick Douglass (and you) are founders of America.

Swisher and Bennet also talk about why Bennet believes he can win; politicians who over-index on Twitter and the “downward spiral” of social media; “the Russians, for Christ’s sake”; whether tech companies should be broken up; Facebook’s regulation of speech; keeping America innovative; fixing education; the 90 percent of Americans not benefiting from economic growth; universal health care; why a Democrat can win in 2020; and Kamala Harris in the first Democratic debates.

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The Ezra Klein Show: “I’m not sure what I expected Sen. Michael Bennet’s answer to be when I asked him why he was running for president,” says Ezra Klein. “I didn’t expect it to be ‘Mitch McConnell.’” Since arriving in the Senate in 2009, Bennet has built a reputation as a senator’s senator. He’s smart and measured, thoughtful on policy, and good at working across the aisle. Klein mentions that he’s had colleagues say they wish Bennet would run for president, that he’s the kind of guy the country needs.

But Bennet has been radicalized. He believes America’s government is broken. So what happens when you radicalize a moderate? How far will an institutionalist go to save the institutions he loves? And at what point do you decide the problem is inside the institutions themselves?

That’s the conversation, and at times argument, Bennet and Klein have in this podcast, and it’s an important one. Bennet’s critique is angry and sweeping. But are his solutions as big as the problem he identifies? They also talk about his plan to end extreme childhood poverty, which Klein thinks is one of the most important proposals in the race, his view that rural America is the key to passing climate legislation, why he opposes Medicare-for-all, what to do about the filibuster, and much more.

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Worldly: Zack Beauchamp hosts Sen. Michael Bennet — the first Democratic presidential candidate to appear on Worldly. Their conversation ranges from big picture conversations about the global threat to liberal democracy to policy details on America’s troubled alliances with Israel and Saudi Arabia to why Sen. Bennet thinks Facebook should be understood as a national security threat.

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South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg

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Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg greets residents before the start of a Peace Walk hosted by Christ Temple Apostolic Church on June 29, 2019, in South Bend, Indiana.

Recode Decode: Pete Buttigieg talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about his campaign for president of the United States. They touch on systemic racism and Buttigieg’s “Douglass Plan”; mobilizing black women voters; how to appeal to Trump supporters who wanted to “burn the house down”; reforming the Supreme Court; the “mystical fascination” with the Rust Belt; climate change and rural America; and why Buttigieg hasn’t attacked tech as much as some of his opponents.

Should Americans have a right to be forgotten online? Will more regulation make it harder to compete with China? Buttigieg answers those questions, along with talking about recognizing gig workers as employees with the right to unionize and his wealthy tech donors. Also covered: being gay in the military, and whether voters will care that Buttigieg is gay; plus his husband and LGBTQ visibility in politics. And lastly, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Squad” versus Nancy Pelosi; and Buttigieg’s favorite president, Abraham Lincoln.

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The Ezra Klein Show: There’s been plenty of discussion of Buttigieg’s biography, and of whether a midsize-city mayorship is appropriate experience for the presidency. But Klein wanted to talk to him about something else: his theory of political change. How, in a broken system, would he get done even a fraction of what he’s promising? “To my surprise,” Klein writes, “he actually had an answer. Before I did this podcast, I was surprised to see Buttigieg catching fire. Now that I’ve had this conversation, I’m not.”

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The Weeds: The South Bend mayor joins host Matt Yglesias to discuss his latest prescription drug plan policy rollout and his broader thinking on health care.

The Weeds: Buttigieg also joined co-hosts Matt Yglesias, Jane Coaston, and Dara Lind to talk about revitalizing the Midwest without nostalgia, his case for prioritizing political reform, and the potential meaning of generational change from the first millennial to run for president.

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Former San Antonio mayor and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro

The Ezra Klein Show: “I’m careful about inviting politicians onto this podcast,” says Ezra Klein. “Too often, questions go unanswered, and frustrated emails flood my inbox. So I only bring on candidates now if there’s a conversation directly related to themes of this show. In this case, there is.

There’s a quiet moral radicalism powering Julián Castro’s presidential campaign. Laced through his policy agenda are proposals to decriminalize the movements of undocumented immigrants, to involve the homeless in housing policy, to establish American obligations to those displaced by climate change, to protect animals from human cruelty.

This is an agenda to expand the moral circle, to redefine who counts in the ‘we’ of American politics. I asked Castro if this wasn’t all a step too far, if Democrats didn’t need to play it safer to eject Trump from office in 2020. This broader moral vision, he replied, ‘is not just trying to backfill the negative. It gives people a positive purpose that they can reach for. That’s what I’m trying to do.’ This is a candidate interview worth hearing.”

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The Weeds: The former HUD Secretary and San Antonio mayor joins co-hosts Matt Yglesias, Jane Coaston, and Dara Lind for a very deep dive into federal housing policy, plus his views on immigration, presidential personnel, and how to set priorities.

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Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)

Recode Decode: Amy Klobuchar talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher in front of a live audience at South by Southwest. In this episode, Klobuchar and Swisher discuss the infamous comb incident; why Klobuchar thinks she can win; Big Pharma and Big Tech; and why Klobuchar is aiming for the center while her fellow Democrats are pulling left.

You’ll also hear what Klobuchar learned from studying Hillary Clinton’s 2016 loss; her thoughts on the crowded Democratic field; and more about the need for urgent action on climate change. Policy discussions include Elizabeth Warren’s proposal to break up the tech companies and Klobuchar’s own agenda for tech; whether she thinks Facebook and Google should be broken up; the prospects of a federal data privacy bill; and whether she trusts tech companies.

Also in this episode: Paul Manafort’s initial prison sentence; the Mueller report; President Trump’s coziness with Vladimir Putin and his attacks on the press; impeachment; Rep. Ilhan Omar’s comments on Israel; and which politicians Klobuchar looks up to.

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)

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Democratic presidential hopeful US Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) speaks during the AARP and Des Moines Register Iowa Presidential Candidate Forum on July 19, 2019, in Sioux City, Iowa.

The Ezra Klein Show: Oligarchic capitalism? Elizabeth Warren has a plan for that. Opioid deaths? She’s got a plan for that too. Same is true for high housing costs, offshoring, child care, breaking up Big Tech, curbing congressional corruption, indicting presidents, strengthening reproductive rights, forgiving student loans, providing debt relief to Puerto Rico, and fixing the love lives of some of her Twitter followers. Seriously.

But how is Warren going to pass any of these plans? Which policy would she prioritize? What presidential powers would she leverage? What argument would she make to her fellow Senate Democrats to convince them to abolish the filibuster? What will she do if Mitch McConnell still leads the Senate? What about climate change? Ezra Klein caught her on a campaign swing through California to ask her about that meta-plan. The plan behind her plans. Warren’s easy fluency with policy is on full display here, but it’s her systematic thinking about the nature of power, and what it takes to redistribute it, that really sets her apart from the field. We don’t want to shock you, but: She’s got a plan for that too.

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Author and spiritual adviser Marianne Williamson

Recode Decode: Marianne Williamson talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about her campaign to be the Democratic nominee for president in 2020. Williamson explains why she’s still in the race even though she didn’t qualify for the third debate and talks about what she has learned from running as an non-establishment candidate; negativity and anger on social media; and how she thinks about the tech industry — and vice versa. She and Swisher also discuss her entrepreneurial journey; her divisive comments about religion, vaccines, and medication; and what Williamson would do if she were CEO of Twitter.

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Entrepreneur and Venture for America founder Andrew Yang

Recode Decode: Andrew Yang talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about his campaign to be the Democratic nominee in the 2020 presidential race. This episode includes Yang’s thoughts on being “the tech candidate” during the techlash; the #YangGang; his version of universal basic income, the Freedom Dividend, and the challenges of UBI and how to convince people that it’s a good idea. Swisher and Yang also cover job automation and the “robot apocalypse”; why the unemployment rate isn’t as low as you think; what future jobs will look like; and Yang’s vision of “human-centered capitalism.”

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Former 2020 Democratic candidates

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio

Recode Decode: Bill de Blasio, the mayor of New York City, talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about why he’s still running for the Democratic nomination in 2020; the threat of job automation and his proposed “robot tax”; and how de Blasio thinks about the future of transit in New York and beyond. He also talks about how the plan for New York to become one of Amazon’s “HQ2” locations fell apart, and why he supports both a national privacy bill and tougher antitrust action against Facebook and Google.

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Here’s everything you need to know about the November Democratic debate

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Making the stage was a whole lot tougher.

The fifth Democratic presidential debate is set to take place on November 20 in Atlanta, and will be hosted by MSNBC and The Washington Post. It could feature the smallest slate of candidates yet, and will be a crucial opportunity for top-tier contenders to further establish themselves as the early primaries approach.

The debate is expected to air on MSNBC and Radio One, and stream live on MSNBC.com and WashingtonPost.com. It will be moderated by an all-female panel of journalists and hosted at filmmaker Tyler Perry’s studios in Atlanta. Since the criteria for making the stage are significantly tougher than that of past debates, the pool of candidates who’ll participate is expected to narrow some.

In total, 10 candidates have qualified, compared to the 12 who took part in October’s debate. Given the smaller field, it’ll likely be an opportunity for frontrunners Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, and Bernie Sanders to more explicitly confront one another, while medium-tier candidates seek a breakout moment.

As of this week, the candidates who have qualified for the November debate have done so by hitting two requirements:

1) They’ve secured at least 165,000 individual donors, including 600 individual donors from 20 states.

2) They’ve reached 3 percent in the polls in four Democratic National Committee (DNC) approved surveys, or 5 percent in two DNC approved polls from the four earliest primary and caucus states — Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada.

The candidates who met the polling and donor thresholds are:

Former Vice President Joe Biden

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders

California Sen. Kamala Harris

New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker

South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg

Entrepreneur Andrew Yang

Billionaire and climate advocate Tom Steyer

Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar

Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard

Candidates had until midnight on November 13 to make the cutoff on both fronts, though the stricter prerequisites were intended to cull the field. (For the fourth debate in October, for example, candidates were required to hit just 130,000 donors and 2 percent in four DNC approved polls.)

One candidate met just the donor requirement:

Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro

And other candidates didn’t reach either requirement:

Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet

Montana Gov. Steve Bullock

Former Maryland Rep. John Delaney

Miramar, Florida, Mayor Wayne Messam

Former Pennsylvania Rep. Joe Sestak

Author and activist Marianne Williamson

A number of candidates, including Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Gov. Jay Inslee, have already dropped out after failing to make the stage in prior debates. If Rep. Tim Ryan and Beto O’Rourke’s departures were any indication, the new debate requirements likely prompted even more to do so.

The state of the race, briefly explained

The margin between Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren got tighter: According to the RealClearPolitics polling average, Joe Biden is in first place, and Elizabeth Warren has been close behind. (Warren briefly edged ahead with a slight lead, though Biden has since reclaimed it.) The polling spread as of mid-November shows Biden at 26 percent, Warren at 21 percent, and Sanders at 18 percent.

Pressure is growing on lower-polling candidates to drop out: Although a number of candidates have already dropped out, including former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, the pressure is on for other 2020 candidates who are still in the race to consider calling it quits. As the DNC polling qualifications grow harder to meet, it will be tougher for many of the lower-tier candidates to participate in the televised debates, which are key for getting the platform they need to increase name recognition and expand their base of support.

The increasingly narrow debate requirements are seen as a factor that have pressed a slew of 2020 candidates to shutter their campaigns, while prompting criticism from candidates like Bullock and Gabbard who’ve failed to qualify for prior debates. The DNC has dismissed this pushback, arguing its use of polls and donor numbers means voters get to select who they want to continuing hearing from at the debates.

“As we get toward November, December, obviously we will continue to raise the bar of participation, because that’s what we’ve always done,” DNC Chair Tom Perez previously said in an interview with ABC’s This Week.

The primaries are rapidly approaching but it’s still early: With the Iowa caucus roughly four months away, the 2020 Democratic field has now begun to winnow ... to nearly 20 candidates, that is.

Voters are likely paying closer attention to the November and December debates given the fast-approaching primaries, which kick off in February. According to an October poll from Rasmussen Reports, 19 percent of Democratic voters say they’ve changed the candidate they support since the debates began and 28 percent are still undecided.

Although there’s still quite a bit of time before voters officially head to the polls, support behind the top candidates is beginning to solidify, and middle-tier candidates like Harris, Buttigieg, and Booker are facing a tighter window to shore up their backing. For candidates who don’t make the stage at all, including Castro, the debates could also seriously limit the exposure they need to advance.

This is not to say that candidates who fail to make the November stage are sure to drop out. Candidates like Messam and Sestak have not made any of the debates so far, and have chosen to continue their campaigns. However, entering the Iowa caucus without the momentum and name recognition debate appearances bring makes winning that contest a difficult proposition at best.

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2020 Democrats talk philosophy on podcasts, shoot hoops on late-night shows

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2020 Democrats talk philosophy on podcasts, shoot hoops on late-night shows

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2020 elections

In a packed field, candidates are seizing every opportunity to reach a fragmented voting public that doesn’t always watch the evening news.

Preet Bharara surprised his own mother during last week’s interview with presidential candidate Andrew Yang.

She texted him after his podcast was released, not about Bharara and Yang’s debate over the policy of universal basic income, but about the pair’s discussion of bigotry and bullying growing up. Bharara had revealed on “Stay Tuned” that he faced racial taunts during a school trip to a planetarium.

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“I hadn’t intended to go where I went,” Bharara said in an interview.

That willingness to veer away from the horserace and the drama that drives TV news into more personal territory is precisely why the podcast Bharara’s been taping for a year and a half — after President Donald Trump ousted him as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York in March 2017 — has become part of an unlikely group of media outlets landing interviews with 2020 Democratic candidates.

Podcasts, late-night programs and web shows are increasingly serving as off-ramps from the daily news churn, offering candidates opportunities for more freewheeling conversations and showing off their personalities or pop culture bonafides to a variety of audiences. And in a packed Democratic field, candidates are seizing every opportunity to reach a fragmented voting public that doesn’t always watch the evening news.

“I got time to talk to Pete Buttigieg about political philosophy,” said Bharara, referring to the South Bend, Indiana mayor. “We talked about Immanuel Kant and John Rawls. How often do you hear a conversation about that? That happens on a podcast like mine. It doesn’t happen on MSNBC. It allows candidates to show another and deeper side.”

Democratic presidential candidates aren’t about to turn down invites from MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow or the “Morning Joe” crew, with the exception of Joe Biden, who has been eschewing most media interviews. They’ll surely keep hitting town hall stages on CNN and Fox News and must-stops like ABC’s “The View” and CBS’s “Late Night with Stephen Colbert.” And everyone wants to make this month’s debate on NBC, MSNBC and Telemundo.

But in addition, Sen. Cory Booker shot hoops in Newark with Desus Nice and The Kid Mero, the former Viceland hosts who launched Showtime’s “Desus & Mero” in February. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand told the late-night hosts in March why she’s running for president while cooking omelets in her Troy, New York home. Buttigieg will appear on Thursday night’s show.

“We want to talk to every single motherfucking one of them,” co-host Mero said of the 2020 field in April before rolling the Booker interview.

On Friday night in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders will take the stage at “Political Party Live!”, a millennial-geared podcast that’s already hosted Yang, California Sen. Kamala Harris, former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro. Booker will join the show Saturday from Gene’s Bar in Iowa City.

Candidates have also talked to former Obama strategist David Axelrod and Vox’s Ezra Klein, and at least a dozen 2020 hopefuls have flocked to “Pod Save America,” which, though only launched in early 2017, has become a mainstay in Democratic politics.

“Smart campaigns are looking for forums that allow their candidates to connect with engaged audiences, break out of the 30-second soundbite culture of cable, and talk about more than Trump’s latest tweet,” said Dan Pfeiffer, a former senior Obama adviser and co-host of “Pod Save America.”

“The advantage of many of these platforms is that they are evergreen and can be consumed on demand hours, days and weeks after the interview,” Pfeiffer said. “The more traditional platforms are ephemeral.”

Candidates have experimented with non-traditional or niche platforms in recent cycles. Hillary Clinton went on Buzzfeed’s “Another Round” podcast in 2016, where the hosts asked her why they never saw her sweating; “I’m really not even a human being,” Clinton responded. “I was constructed in a garage in Palo Alto.”

Peter Hamby, who began hosting Snapchat’s “Good Luck America” show during the 2016 election, noted that “new formats and new shows have been evolving and mutating since the birth of the smartphone” more than a decade ago.

“But candidates and campaigns are being less smug about new platforms and new shows,” he said. “They’re more willing to step into the breach because they realize you have to be on all screens at all times of the day.”

“A lot of people just consume an entirely different set of media than a lot of the people in Washington and New York who are making political news,” said Hamby, a former CNN reporter.

It’s also been a long time since the Democratic field had so many candidates, all of whom want a lighthearted, viral moment that makes them memorable to voters.

Still, there are risks for candidates when stepping away from more conventional political shows.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren discussed issues like taxing corporations and reparations for slavery over more than 45 minutes last Friday on Power 105.1’s “The Breakfast Club,” the nationally syndicated hip-hop morning show that’s become a destination for 2020 contenders.

But co-host Charlamagne tha God also challenged Warren’s past identification as Native American, an issue that’s largely faded from mainstream political coverage. “You’re kind of like the original Rachel Dolezal,” he said, referring to a white woman who identified as black.

On Friday’s “Vice News Tonight,” Charlemagne said he’s glad candidates are visiting “The Breakfast Club,” though he was blunt about their political calculations. “They’re only coming here because of the large listening audience,” he said, “and it’s a large listening audience of black and brown people.”

Buttigieg, who appeared on “The Breakfast Club” in March, has embraced a wide spectrum of media venues, from Hugh Hewitt’s conservative radio show — a must-stop during the 2016 Republican primary — to TMZ Live, where the candidate talked policy, pop culture and busted out a guitar. More recently, Buttigieg made headlines after stopping by a TMZ camera to defend NFL kneeling protests and point out Trump’s lack of military experience.

“It’s ultimately the candidate who determines the success of these things. There’s no magic recipe,” said Lis Smith, a Buttigieg communications adviser who has spearheaded an ambitious media strategy for a Midwestern mayor who had little national name recognition before getting in the race.

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Smith recalled driving with Buttigieg in March as the candidate noticed a flurry of mentions on Twitter after his interview with Bharara, which took place before the candidate broke out on national television during a CNN town hall.

“Preet asked questions that aren’t on cable news,” she said, allowing for a conversation “that is 20 levels deeper” than most TV news shows. (Bharara said the Buttigieg interview was one of his best performing podcasts to date).

Iowa politician Stacey Walker and millennial business owners Veronica Tessler and Simeon Talley launched “Political Party Live!” in 2016 to engage young progressive Democrats and promote diverse voices in state politics. And like any good party, the hosts made sure there was beer, pizza, and music to go along with the political talk.

The appearance by Harris in February helped open the floodgates this cycle in terms of candidates coming on the show.

“This is the first time we’ve ever been a force in the presidential selection process in Iowa,” said Walker, who said the team is talking to several campaigns beyond the six candidates who have appeared or agreed to do so.

“Our hope is to be a resource to Iowans,” he said. “Iowans really do take their role being the first-in-the-nation caucuses state seriously. I think the candidates know that.”

Bharara said he and his team are talking this week about which candidate to invite next. He stressed that listeners want a “thoughtful discussion” — and said he’s not bound by the rigid criteria to get on the TV debate stage.

“For our podcast,” he said, “we don’t have some DNC-inspired formula of polling and donors that will determine when they do or don’t get airtime.”

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Here’s everything you need to know about the November Democratic debate

Democratic candidates gather for a debate in Houston. | Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Making the stage was a whole lot tougher.

The fifth Democratic presidential debate is set to take place on November 20 in Atlanta, and will be hosted by MSNBC and The Washington Post. It could feature the smallest slate of candidates yet, and will be a crucial opportunity for top-tier contenders to further establish themselves as the early primaries approach.

The debate is expected to air on MSNBC and Radio One, and stream live on MSNBC.com and WashingtonPost.com. It will be moderated by an all-female panel of journalists and hosted at filmmaker Tyler Perry’s studios in Atlanta. Since the criteria for making the stage are significantly tougher than that of past debates, the pool of candidates who’ll participate is expected to narrow some.

In total, 10 candidates have qualified, compared to the 12 who took part in October’s debate. Given the smaller field, it’ll likely be an opportunity for frontrunners Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, and Bernie Sanders to more explicitly confront one another, while medium-tier candidates seek a breakout moment.

As of this week, the candidates who have qualified for the November debate have done so by hitting two requirements:

1) They’ve secured at least 165,000 individual donors, including 600 individual donors from 20 states.

2) They’ve reached 3 percent in the polls in four Democratic National Committee (DNC) approved surveys, or 5 percent in two DNC approved polls from the four earliest primary and caucus states — Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada.

The candidates who met the polling and donor thresholds are:

Former Vice President Joe Biden

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders

California Sen. Kamala Harris

New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker

South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg

Entrepreneur Andrew Yang

Billionaire and climate advocate Tom Steyer

Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar

Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard

Candidates had until midnight on November 13 to make the cutoff on both fronts, though the stricter prerequisites were intended to cull the field. (For the fourth debate in October, for example, candidates were required to hit just 130,000 donors and 2 percent in four DNC approved polls.)

One candidate met just the donor requirement:

Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro

And other candidates didn’t reach either requirement:

Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet

Montana Gov. Steve Bullock

Former Maryland Rep. John Delaney

Miramar, Florida, Mayor Wayne Messam

Former Pennsylvania Rep. Joe Sestak

Author and activist Marianne Williamson

A number of candidates, including Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Gov. Jay Inslee, have already dropped out after failing to make the stage in prior debates. If Rep. Tim Ryan and Beto O’Rourke’s departures were any indication, the new debate requirements likely prompted even more to do so.

The state of the race, briefly explained

The margin between Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren got tighter: According to the RealClearPolitics polling average, Joe Biden is in first place, and Elizabeth Warren has been close behind. (Warren briefly edged ahead with a slight lead, though Biden has since reclaimed it.) The polling spread as of mid-November shows Biden at 26 percent, Warren at 21 percent, and Sanders at 18 percent.

Pressure is growing on lower-polling candidates to drop out: Although a number of candidates have already dropped out, including former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, the pressure is on for other 2020 candidates who are still in the race to consider calling it quits. As the DNC polling qualifications grow harder to meet, it will be tougher for many of the lower-tier candidates to participate in the televised debates, which are key for getting the platform they need to increase name recognition and expand their base of support.

The increasingly narrow debate requirements are seen as a factor that have pressed a slew of 2020 candidates to shutter their campaigns, while prompting criticism from candidates like Bullock and Gabbard who’ve failed to qualify for prior debates. The DNC has dismissed this pushback, arguing its use of polls and donor numbers means voters get to select who they want to continuing hearing from at the debates.

“As we get toward November, December, obviously we will continue to raise the bar of participation, because that’s what we’ve always done,” DNC Chair Tom Perez previously said in an interview with ABC’s This Week.

The primaries are rapidly approaching but it’s still early: With the Iowa caucus roughly four months away, the 2020 Democratic field has now begun to winnow ... to nearly 20 candidates, that is.

Voters are likely paying closer attention to the November and December debates given the fast-approaching primaries, which kick off in February. According to an October poll from Rasmussen Reports, 19 percent of Democratic voters say they’ve changed the candidate they support since the debates began and 28 percent are still undecided.

Although there’s still quite a bit of time before voters officially head to the polls, support behind the top candidates is beginning to solidify, and middle-tier candidates like Harris, Buttigieg, and Booker are facing a tighter window to shore up their backing. For candidates who don’t make the stage at all, including Castro, the debates could also seriously limit the exposure they need to advance.

This is not to say that candidates who fail to make the November stage are sure to drop out. Candidates like Messam and Sestak have not made any of the debates so far, and have chosen to continue their campaigns. However, entering the Iowa caucus without the momentum and name recognition debate appearances bring makes winning that contest a difficult proposition at best.

Listen to Today, Explained

In the fourth Democratic debate, the candidates treated Elizabeth Warren as the frontrunner. Vox’s Ezra Klein explains what that means for the race ahead.

Looking for a quick way to keep up with the never-ending news cycle? Host Sean Rameswaram will guide you through the most important stories at the end of each day.

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Here’s everything you need to know about the November Democratic debate

Democratic candidates gather for a debate in Houston. | Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Making the stage was a whole lot tougher.

The fifth Democratic presidential debate is set to take place on November 20 in Atlanta, and will be hosted by MSNBC and The Washington Post. It could feature the smallest slate of candidates yet, and will be a crucial opportunity for top-tier contenders to further establish themselves as the early primaries approach.

The debate is expected to air on MSNBC and Radio One, and stream live on MSNBC.com and WashingtonPost.com. It will be moderated by an all-female panel of journalists and hosted at filmmaker Tyler Perry’s studios in Atlanta. Since the criteria for making the stage are significantly tougher than that of past debates, the pool of candidates who’ll participate is expected to narrow some.

In total, 10 candidates have qualified, compared to the 12 who took part in October’s debate. Given the smaller field, it’ll likely be an opportunity for frontrunners Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, and Bernie Sanders to more explicitly confront one another, while medium-tier candidates seek a breakout moment.

As of this week, the candidates who have qualified for the November debate have done so by hitting two requirements:

1) They’ve secured at least 165,000 individual donors, including 600 individual donors from 20 states.

2) They’ve reached 3 percent in the polls in four Democratic National Committee (DNC) approved surveys, or 5 percent in two DNC approved polls from the four earliest primary and caucus states — Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada.

The candidates who met the polling and donor thresholds are:

Former Vice President Joe Biden

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders

California Sen. Kamala Harris

New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker

South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg

Entrepreneur Andrew Yang

Billionaire and climate advocate Tom Steyer

Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar

Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard

Candidates had until midnight on November 13 to make the cutoff on both fronts, though the stricter prerequisites were intended to cull the field. (For the fourth debate in October, for example, candidates were required to hit just 130,000 donors and 2 percent in four DNC approved polls.)

One candidate met just the donor requirement:

Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro

And other candidates didn’t reach either requirement:

Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet

Montana Gov. Steve Bullock

Former Maryland Rep. John Delaney

Miramar, Florida, Mayor Wayne Messam

Former Pennsylvania Rep. Joe Sestak

Author and activist Marianne Williamson

A number of candidates, including Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Gov. Jay Inslee, have already dropped out after failing to make the stage in prior debates. If Rep. Tim Ryan and Beto O’Rourke’s departures were any indication, the new debate requirements likely prompted even more to do so.

The state of the race, briefly explained

The margin between Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren got tighter: According to the RealClearPolitics polling average, Joe Biden is in first place, and Elizabeth Warren has been close behind. (Warren briefly edged ahead with a slight lead, though Biden has since reclaimed it.) The polling spread as of mid-November shows Biden at 26 percent, Warren at 21 percent, and Sanders at 18 percent.

Pressure is growing on lower-polling candidates to drop out: Although a number of candidates have already dropped out, including former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, the pressure is on for other 2020 candidates who are still in the race to consider calling it quits. As the DNC polling qualifications grow harder to meet, it will be tougher for many of the lower-tier candidates to participate in the televised debates, which are key for getting the platform they need to increase name recognition and expand their base of support.

The increasingly narrow debate requirements are seen as a factor that have pressed a slew of 2020 candidates to shutter their campaigns, while prompting criticism from candidates like Bullock and Gabbard who’ve failed to qualify for prior debates. The DNC has dismissed this pushback, arguing its use of polls and donor numbers means voters get to select who they want to continuing hearing from at the debates.

“As we get toward November, December, obviously we will continue to raise the bar of participation, because that’s what we’ve always done,” DNC Chair Tom Perez previously said in an interview with ABC’s This Week.

The primaries are rapidly approaching but it’s still early: With the Iowa caucus roughly four months away, the 2020 Democratic field has now begun to winnow ... to nearly 20 candidates, that is.

Voters are likely paying closer attention to the November and December debates given the fast-approaching primaries, which kick off in February. According to an October poll from Rasmussen Reports, 19 percent of Democratic voters say they’ve changed the candidate they support since the debates began and 28 percent are still undecided.

Although there’s still quite a bit of time before voters officially head to the polls, support behind the top candidates is beginning to solidify, and middle-tier candidates like Harris, Buttigieg, and Booker are facing a tighter window to shore up their backing. For candidates who don’t make the stage at all, including Castro, the debates could also seriously limit the exposure they need to advance.

This is not to say that candidates who fail to make the November stage are sure to drop out. Candidates like Messam and Sestak have not made any of the debates so far, and have chosen to continue their campaigns. However, entering the Iowa caucus without the momentum and name recognition debate appearances bring makes winning that contest a difficult proposition at best.

Listen to Today, Explained

In the fourth Democratic debate, the candidates treated Elizabeth Warren as the frontrunner. Vox’s Ezra Klein explains what that means for the race ahead.

Looking for a quick way to keep up with the never-ending news cycle? Host Sean Rameswaram will guide you through the most important stories at the end of each day.

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Here’s everything you need to know about the November Democratic debate

Democratic candidates gather for a debate in Houston. | Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Making the stage was a whole lot tougher.

The fifth Democratic presidential debate is set to take place on November 20 in Atlanta, and will be hosted by MSNBC and The Washington Post. It could feature the smallest slate of candidates yet, and will be a crucial opportunity for top-tier contenders to further establish themselves as the early primaries approach.

The debate is expected to air on MSNBC and Radio One, and stream live on MSNBC.com and WashingtonPost.com. It will be moderated by an all-female panel of journalists and hosted at filmmaker Tyler Perry’s studios in Atlanta. Since the criteria for making the stage are significantly tougher than that of past debates, the pool of candidates who’ll participate is expected to narrow some.

In total, 10 candidates have qualified, compared to the 12 who took part in October’s debate. Given the smaller field, it’ll likely be an opportunity for frontrunners Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, and Bernie Sanders to more explicitly confront one another, while medium-tier candidates seek a breakout moment.

As of this week, the candidates who have qualified for the November debate have done so by hitting two requirements:

1) They’ve secured at least 165,000 individual donors, including 600 individual donors from 20 states.

2) They’ve reached 3 percent in the polls in four Democratic National Committee (DNC) approved surveys, or 5 percent in two DNC approved polls from the four earliest primary and caucus states — Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada.

The candidates who met the polling and donor thresholds are:

Former Vice President Joe Biden

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders

California Sen. Kamala Harris

New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker

South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg

Entrepreneur Andrew Yang

Billionaire and climate advocate Tom Steyer

Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar

Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard

Candidates had until midnight on November 13 to make the cutoff on both fronts, though the stricter prerequisites were intended to cull the field. (For the fourth debate in October, for example, candidates were required to hit just 130,000 donors and 2 percent in four DNC approved polls.)

One candidate met just the donor requirement:

Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro

And other candidates didn’t reach either requirement:

Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet

Montana Gov. Steve Bullock

Former Maryland Rep. John Delaney

Miramar, Florida, Mayor Wayne Messam

Former Pennsylvania Rep. Joe Sestak

Author and activist Marianne Williamson

A number of candidates, including Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Gov. Jay Inslee, have already dropped out after failing to make the stage in prior debates. If Rep. Tim Ryan and Beto O’Rourke’s departures were any indication, the new debate requirements likely prompted even more to do so.

The state of the race, briefly explained

The margin between Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren got tighter: According to the RealClearPolitics polling average, Joe Biden is in first place, and Elizabeth Warren has been close behind. (Warren briefly edged ahead with a slight lead, though Biden has since reclaimed it.) The polling spread as of mid-November shows Biden at 26 percent, Warren at 21 percent, and Sanders at 18 percent.

Pressure is growing on lower-polling candidates to drop out: Although a number of candidates have already dropped out, including former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, the pressure is on for other 2020 candidates who are still in the race to consider calling it quits. As the DNC polling qualifications grow harder to meet, it will be tougher for many of the lower-tier candidates to participate in the televised debates, which are key for getting the platform they need to increase name recognition and expand their base of support.

The increasingly narrow debate requirements are seen as a factor that have pressed a slew of 2020 candidates to shutter their campaigns, while prompting criticism from candidates like Bullock and Gabbard who’ve failed to qualify for prior debates. The DNC has dismissed this pushback, arguing its use of polls and donor numbers means voters get to select who they want to continuing hearing from at the debates.

“As we get toward November, December, obviously we will continue to raise the bar of participation, because that’s what we’ve always done,” DNC Chair Tom Perez previously said in an interview with ABC’s This Week.

The primaries are rapidly approaching but it’s still early: With the Iowa caucus roughly four months away, the 2020 Democratic field has now begun to winnow ... to nearly 20 candidates, that is.

Voters are likely paying closer attention to the November and December debates given the fast-approaching primaries, which kick off in February. According to an October poll from Rasmussen Reports, 19 percent of Democratic voters say they’ve changed the candidate they support since the debates began and 28 percent are still undecided.

Although there’s still quite a bit of time before voters officially head to the polls, support behind the top candidates is beginning to solidify, and middle-tier candidates like Harris, Buttigieg, and Booker are facing a tighter window to shore up their backing. For candidates who don’t make the stage at all, including Castro, the debates could also seriously limit the exposure they need to advance.

This is not to say that candidates who fail to make the November stage are sure to drop out. Candidates like Messam and Sestak have not made any of the debates so far, and have chosen to continue their campaigns. However, entering the Iowa caucus without the momentum and name recognition debate appearances bring makes winning that contest a difficult proposition at best.

Listen to Today, Explained

In the fourth Democratic debate, the candidates treated Elizabeth Warren as the frontrunner. Vox’s Ezra Klein explains what that means for the race ahead.

Looking for a quick way to keep up with the never-ending news cycle? Host Sean Rameswaram will guide you through the most important stories at the end of each day.

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Here’s how to listen to every Vox podcast interview with a 2020 Democratic candidate

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From Buttigieg on rural America to Warren on breaking up Big Tech, these episodes dive into how candidates think about policies that affect your lives.

Democratic veterans and newcomers alike have lined up to challenge President Trump in the 2020 election. With the field more crowded than it’s been in years, it can be easy to get lost in the horse race — and hard to keep track of where candidates stand on the issues that affect people’s lives.

Enter Vox’s expanding stable of thought-provoking podcasts.

From South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg talking about climate change and rural America on Recode Decode to Sen. Elizabeth Warren sharing her plan to break up Big Tech on The Ezra Klein Show, here are nine Vox podcast episodes that will help you learn how the candidates think about policies that affect your lives. Happy listening.

Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO)

Recode Decode: Michael Bennet talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about the intersection of social media and politics, and running for president in 2020. This episode includes discussion of Denver schools and the racial education gap; Bennet’s assessment of his past 10 years in the Senate; why people voted for Trump; the changes in Washington; and why Frederick Douglass (and you) are founders of America.

Swisher and Bennet also talk about why Bennet believes he can win; politicians who over-index on Twitter and the “downward spiral” of social media; “the Russians, for Christ’s sake”; whether tech companies should be broken up; Facebook’s regulation of speech; keeping America innovative; fixing education; the 90 percent of Americans not benefiting from economic growth; universal health care; why a Democrat can win in 2020; and Kamala Harris in the first Democratic debates.

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The Ezra Klein Show: “I’m not sure what I expected Sen. Michael Bennet’s answer to be when I asked him why he was running for president,” says Ezra Klein. “I didn’t expect it to be ‘Mitch McConnell.’” Since arriving in the Senate in 2009, Bennet has built a reputation as a senator’s senator. He’s smart and measured, thoughtful on policy, and good at working across the aisle. Klein mentions that he’s had colleagues say they wish Bennet would run for president, that he’s the kind of guy the country needs.

But Bennet has been radicalized. He believes America’s government is broken. So what happens when you radicalize a moderate? How far will an institutionalist go to save the institutions he loves? And at what point do you decide the problem is inside the institutions themselves?

That’s the conversation, and at times argument, Bennet and Klein have in this podcast, and it’s an important one. Bennet’s critique is angry and sweeping. But are his solutions as big as the problem he identifies? They also talk about his plan to end extreme childhood poverty, which Klein thinks is one of the most important proposals in the race, his view that rural America is the key to passing climate legislation, why he opposes Medicare-for-all, what to do about the filibuster, and much more.

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Worldly: Zack Beauchamp hosts Sen. Michael Bennet — the first Democratic presidential candidate to appear on Worldly. Their conversation ranges from big picture conversations about the global threat to liberal democracy to policy details on America’s troubled alliances with Israel and Saudi Arabia to why Sen. Bennet thinks Facebook should be understood as a national security threat.

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South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg

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Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg greets residents before the start of a Peace Walk hosted by Christ Temple Apostolic Church on June 29, 2019, in South Bend, Indiana.

Recode Decode: Pete Buttigieg talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about his campaign for president of the United States. They touch on systemic racism and Buttigieg’s “Douglass Plan”; mobilizing black women voters; how to appeal to Trump supporters who wanted to “burn the house down”; reforming the Supreme Court; the “mystical fascination” with the Rust Belt; climate change and rural America; and why Buttigieg hasn’t attacked tech as much as some of his opponents.

Should Americans have a right to be forgotten online? Will more regulation make it harder to compete with China? Buttigieg answers those questions, along with talking about recognizing gig workers as employees with the right to unionize and his wealthy tech donors. Also covered: being gay in the military, and whether voters will care that Buttigieg is gay; plus his husband and LGBTQ visibility in politics. And lastly, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Squad” versus Nancy Pelosi; and Buttigieg’s favorite president, Abraham Lincoln.

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The Ezra Klein Show: There’s been plenty of discussion of Buttigieg’s biography, and of whether a midsize-city mayorship is appropriate experience for the presidency. But Klein wanted to talk to him about something else: his theory of political change. How, in a broken system, would he get done even a fraction of what he’s promising? “To my surprise,” Klein writes, “he actually had an answer. Before I did this podcast, I was surprised to see Buttigieg catching fire. Now that I’ve had this conversation, I’m not.”

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The Weeds: The South Bend mayor joins host Matt Yglesias to discuss his latest prescription drug plan policy rollout and his broader thinking on health care.

The Weeds: Buttigieg also joined co-hosts Matt Yglesias, Jane Coaston, and Dara Lind to talk about revitalizing the Midwest without nostalgia, his case for prioritizing political reform, and the potential meaning of generational change from the first millennial to run for president.

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Former San Antonio mayor and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro

The Ezra Klein Show: “I’m careful about inviting politicians onto this podcast,” says Ezra Klein. “Too often, questions go unanswered, and frustrated emails flood my inbox. So I only bring on candidates now if there’s a conversation directly related to themes of this show. In this case, there is.

There’s a quiet moral radicalism powering Julián Castro’s presidential campaign. Laced through his policy agenda are proposals to decriminalize the movements of undocumented immigrants, to involve the homeless in housing policy, to establish American obligations to those displaced by climate change, to protect animals from human cruelty.

This is an agenda to expand the moral circle, to redefine who counts in the ‘we’ of American politics. I asked Castro if this wasn’t all a step too far, if Democrats didn’t need to play it safer to eject Trump from office in 2020. This broader moral vision, he replied, ‘is not just trying to backfill the negative. It gives people a positive purpose that they can reach for. That’s what I’m trying to do.’ This is a candidate interview worth hearing.”

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The Weeds: The former HUD Secretary and San Antonio mayor joins co-hosts Matt Yglesias, Jane Coaston, and Dara Lind for a very deep dive into federal housing policy, plus his views on immigration, presidential personnel, and how to set priorities.

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Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)

Recode Decode: Amy Klobuchar talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher in front of a live audience at South by Southwest. In this episode, Klobuchar and Swisher discuss the infamous comb incident; why Klobuchar thinks she can win; Big Pharma and Big Tech; and why Klobuchar is aiming for the center while her fellow Democrats are pulling left.

You’ll also hear what Klobuchar learned from studying Hillary Clinton’s 2016 loss; her thoughts on the crowded Democratic field; and more about the need for urgent action on climate change. Policy discussions include Elizabeth Warren’s proposal to break up the tech companies and Klobuchar’s own agenda for tech; whether she thinks Facebook and Google should be broken up; the prospects of a federal data privacy bill; and whether she trusts tech companies.

Also in this episode: Paul Manafort’s initial prison sentence; the Mueller report; President Trump’s coziness with Vladimir Putin and his attacks on the press; impeachment; Rep. Ilhan Omar’s comments on Israel; and which politicians Klobuchar looks up to.

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)

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Democratic presidential hopeful US Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) speaks during the AARP and Des Moines Register Iowa Presidential Candidate Forum on July 19, 2019, in Sioux City, Iowa.

The Ezra Klein Show: Oligarchic capitalism? Elizabeth Warren has a plan for that. Opioid deaths? She’s got a plan for that too. Same is true for high housing costs, offshoring, child care, breaking up Big Tech, curbing congressional corruption, indicting presidents, strengthening reproductive rights, forgiving student loans, providing debt relief to Puerto Rico, and fixing the love lives of some of her Twitter followers. Seriously.

But how is Warren going to pass any of these plans? Which policy would she prioritize? What presidential powers would she leverage? What argument would she make to her fellow Senate Democrats to convince them to abolish the filibuster? What will she do if Mitch McConnell still leads the Senate? What about climate change? Ezra Klein caught her on a campaign swing through California to ask her about that meta-plan. The plan behind her plans. Warren’s easy fluency with policy is on full display here, but it’s her systematic thinking about the nature of power, and what it takes to redistribute it, that really sets her apart from the field. We don’t want to shock you, but: She’s got a plan for that too.

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Author and spiritual adviser Marianne Williamson

Recode Decode: Marianne Williamson talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about her campaign to be the Democratic nominee for president in 2020. Williamson explains why she’s still in the race even though she didn’t qualify for the third debate and talks about what she has learned from running as an non-establishment candidate; negativity and anger on social media; and how she thinks about the tech industry — and vice versa. She and Swisher also discuss her entrepreneurial journey; her divisive comments about religion, vaccines, and medication; and what Williamson would do if she were CEO of Twitter.

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Entrepreneur and Venture for America founder Andrew Yang

Recode Decode: Andrew Yang talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about his campaign to be the Democratic nominee in the 2020 presidential race. This episode includes Yang’s thoughts on being “the tech candidate” during the techlash; the #YangGang; his version of universal basic income, the Freedom Dividend, and the challenges of UBI and how to convince people that it’s a good idea. Swisher and Yang also cover job automation and the “robot apocalypse”; why the unemployment rate isn’t as low as you think; what future jobs will look like; and Yang’s vision of “human-centered capitalism.”

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Former 2020 Democratic candidates

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio

Recode Decode: Bill de Blasio, the mayor of New York City, talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about why he’s still running for the Democratic nomination in 2020; the threat of job automation and his proposed “robot tax”; and how de Blasio thinks about the future of transit in New York and beyond. He also talks about how the plan for New York to become one of Amazon’s “HQ2” locations fell apart, and why he supports both a national privacy bill and tougher antitrust action against Facebook and Google.

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