CNN Is Giving 2020 Democrats 7 Hours To Talk About Climate Change

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Source: Vox

The DNC voted down holding an official presidential climate debate. TV networks have stepped up.

CNN will host a seven-hour marathon of interviews with 10 presidential candidates about climate change on Wednesday beginning at 5 pm Eastern as part of its climate crisis town hall. A live stream of the town hall will air on CNN.com. You can also stream it via CNN apps on iOS, Android, Apple TV, Roku, Amazon Fire, Chromecast, and Android TV. The forum will also be broadcast on SiriusXM Channels 116, 454, 795, and the Westwood One Radio Network.

Here is the format:
•Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro will be interviewed by CNN’s Wolf Blitzer at 5 pm ET
•Entrepreneur Andrew Yang will be interviewed by Blitzer at 5:40 pm
•California Sen. Kamala Harris will be interviewed by Erin Burnett at 6:20 pm
•Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar will be interviewed by Burnett at 7 pm
•Former Vice President Joe Biden will be interviewed by Anderson Cooper at 8 pm
•Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders will interviewed by Cooper at 8:40 pm
•Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren will be interviewed by Chris Cuomo at 9:20 pm
•South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg will be interviewed by Cuomo at 10 pm
•Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke will be interviewed Don Lemon at 10:40 pm
•New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker will be interviewed by Lemon at 11:20 pm

The audience will be composed of selected Democrats, independents, and stakeholders. No public tickets will be issued.

That a major television network would devote so much time to a single issue is a sign of how important climate change has become for Democrats and how successful activists have been in elevating the issue.

Climate change has rocketed up the list of concerns for primary voters, with some polls showing climate change as the number one issue and other indicating that strong majorities want robust climate action from the White House. Activists groups like the Sunrise Movement have refused to let the Democratic National Committee ignore the issue, holding sit-ins outside their headquarters to demand a climate debate. - MORE...


Read more: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/9/3/20847535/cnn-climate-town-hall-2020-presidential-democrats

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July 20 & 31, 2019: CCN held Democratic Primary Debates in Detroit, Mich.

[blm]

1. Warren and Pete drew the short straws?

Cuomo just likes to be combative, not informative.

[still_one]

3. It is a town-hall forumat, so assuming the audience is fairly selected, it should mostly be the

audience who will drive the questions, and in that format, the candidates should have adequate time to respond with thoughtful answers, unlike a debate format


IMHO

[crazytown]

8. Nobody is better suited to handling Cuomo than Warren and Pete

You can't throw them off their game. Period.

[MBS]

19. I just got onto DU to say the same thing!

I know that both of them are easily up to the task.

[still_one]

2. They have been announcing this for a few weeks ago, as some were slamming the DNC for dedicating a

debate entirely to climate change, ignoring the fact that a "debate format" isn't the best way for candidates to discuss how they would discuss this topic, but a town-hall format is much better

[PatrickforO]

4. About time.

Funny how the DNC is advanced as 'ignoring the issue.'

I'd hate to think they were...

[orleans]

5. question...

"The audience will be composed of selected Democrats, independents, and stakeholders. No public tickets will be issued."

selected dems? how are they selected? and stakeholders? what does that mean?

[YOHABLO]

6. I know I raised an eyebrow to that as well. "selected Dems"?sounds a little like ''super delegates".

[orleans]

7. it does. and "stakeholders?"

are stakeholders corporate stakeholders or the rest of the people on earth?

[crazytown]

9. Suggest you repost in full in Primaries

[True Blue American]

10. DVR on!

[BlueMTexpat]

11. Warren supports Inslee's

proposals.

Elizabeth Warren embraces Jay Inslee's climate change platform

https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/03/politics/elizabeth-warren-jay-inslee-clean-energy-plan-green-new-deal/index.html

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Warren's announcement signals her hopes of picking up the climate change baton from Inslee, who dropped out of the race on August 21, the same day he released the final piece of his comprehensive plan. In a Medium post published Tuesday night, Warren also challenged her rivals to meet Inslee's standard.
"Jay didn't merely sound the alarm or make vague promises. He provided bold, thoughtful, and detailed ideas for how to get us where we need to go, both by raising standards to address pollution and investing in the future of the American economy," Warren wrote. "While his presidential campaign may be over, his ideas should remain at the center of the agenda."
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[moreland01]

12. Fucking Brilliant!!!

Whomever pulled this together needs humongous Kudos! This will be way more effective for the cause of Climate Change for the Dems than a stupid 2 hour debate that nobody watches. Seven straight hours of Dems talking on CNN. Brilliant! I'm giddy!

[Bayard]

13. This is great!

That's tonight? They had to have planned this for awhile.

[IronLionZion]

16. They probably planned it quietly since DNC didn't want this

[LiberalLovinLug]

17. So the elephant question in the room .....why not?

[MBS]

14. I'm really happy that each candidate will be interviewed in depth

40 minutes per candidate on this vital issue is just what's needed.
Would actually like to see this format used for interviews on other topics as well. But climate change is the most important one for in-depth interviews, since it's such an urgent issue, and one that's been ignored for far too long.

As long as we still have too many candidates, the usual "debate" format is close to useless. For one thing, with 10 candidates on the stage at once, a "face-to-face" interaction between candidates is physically impossible. But most importantly, it completely precludes the possibility of in-depth questions and in-depth answers on ANY topic.

[IronLionZion]

15. Sweet! Thanks for sharing

This is an important issue and glad CNN is doing this.

[StevieM]

18. It seems a bit unfair to not include Tom Steyer.

He has a strong record of fighting for action on climate change.

[maxsolomon]

20. "We're fucked. We've passed the tipping point thanks to the GOP and Oil and Gas Denialists

like the Koch Brothers."

Whoever says that will get my vote!