2020 Democratic Primary Debate Between Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders Moved Due to Coronavirus

By Ted Johnson

Joe Biden's surge toward the Democratic presidential nomination rolled on Tuesday with a dominating victory in Florida, the largest delegate prize of the day, and win in Illinois and Arizona. Biden swept to easy victories in Florida and Illinois on Tuesday, increasingly pulling away with a Democratic presidential primary upended by the coronavirusand building pressure on Bernie Sanders to abandon his campaign.

Update 3/16/20: CNN has now made Sunday's full debate between Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders available to watch online, with a six-part video series posted to its website. The two-hour debate, which took place on March 15, focused heavily on the candidates' proposed responses to the coronavirus pandemic as well as their own policy issues and plans, including Biden's commitment to choosing a woman as vice president and nominating a black woman for the Supreme Court.

Former Vice President Joe Biden and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders sought in Sunday's debate to cast themselves as best-positioned to lead the nation through a global pandemic, with Biden pledging to deploy the military to help with recovery efforts and Sanders using the crisis to pitch his long-sought overhaul of the country's health care system.

The coronavirus was a topic heavily discussed by Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden during the latest Democratic debate on Sunday night. While the debate was originally set to take place in Phoenix, Arizona, it was moved to Washington, D.C.

It didn’t come as a shock that the March 15 Democratic debate was overwhelmingly focused on the coronavirus pandemic, which changed the logistics of the debate itself. The two candidates, former Vice President Joe Biden, and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, came out onstage at the event and bumped elbows, rather than shake hands, approaching podiums placed six feet apart.

Former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders offered conflicting visions for coronavirus response in the Democratic debate on Sunday night.

Tonight, the two major candidates remaining in the 2020 Democratic primary race will finally debate in hopes of securing their nomination for this year's presidential election. Former Vice President Joe Biden and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders will go head-to-head on-stage from the CNN studio in Washington, D.C., after the event was relocated from the Arizona Federal Theatre in Phoenix as a result of the continued spread of the coronavirus.

Bernie Sanders believes his current rival, front-runner former Vice President Joe Biden, could beat President Donald Trump in the general election.

The Democratic National Committee is moving Sunday's presidential debate from Arizona to Washington, D.C., because of concerns about coronavirus. The party had already announced that the debate between Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders would be held without a live audience.

By Ted Johnson

Sen. Bernie Sanders acknowledged on Wednesday that he is trailing former Vice President Joe Biden, but said he will stay in the race and will debate Biden on Sunday.

By Ted Johnson

Joe Biden decisively won Michigan’s Democratic presidential primary on Tuesday, seizing a key battleground state that helped propel Bernie Sanders’ insurgent candidacy four years ago. The former vice president's victory there, as well as in Missouri, Mississippi and Idaho, dealt a serious blow to Sanders and substantially widened Biden's path to the nomination.

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Both of Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden‘s rallies in Cleveland, Ohio have been cancelled.

By Ted Johnson

By Ted Johnson

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When the Democratic primary debate process first began in the summer of 2019, there were close to two dozen politicians taking the podiums to make a case for their candidacies. Now, the field has been whittled down to just two front-runners: former Vice President Joe Biden and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.