The Democratic National Committee announced Tuesday that they will sanction six presidential debates beginning this fall, giving Hillary Clinton’s challengers a limited number of chances to confront the former secretary of state on the debate stage.
In order to crack down on other, unsanctioned debates, candidates will have to agree to an exclusivity clause and won’t be eligible to participate in the DNC-backed debates if they appear elsewhere.
So far, only independent Sen. Bernie Sanders has joined Clinton in the Democratic field, though former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee, former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley and former Virginia Sen. Jim Webb are considering running.
Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina will each host a primary debate, the DNC said.
Details haven’t yet been set for the six debates, though the DNC says it will seek “diversity of media outlets, moderators and formats.”
If Senator Sanders wants to run in the Democratic Primary, I think he will have to re-register as a Democrat, so he can run in all the primaries because of individual state's election laws.
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Bernie Sanders can't register as a Democrat, because he lives in Vermont, one of the 20 states in which voter registration forms don't ask about party membership. New Hampshire is the only state that has a law saying people must be a registered member of a party to run in that party's primary, and New Hampshire has not enforced it in the past, because otherwise Al Gore, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, George H. W. Bush, and Walter Mondale could not have run in the NH primaries. The NH law is ridiculous.
Then in Vermont, how would he indicate he is a Democrat, so he could run in each state's Democratic primary?
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