Will Joe Biden, the former vice-president, retain his early lead in polls to win the Democratic presidential nomination and take on President Donald Trump in 2020? Or will it be one of the others, younger, ethnically different, or one of the six women in the fray or an Indian American or a Hindu American.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He will be watching very closely, in fact, with an eye on Biden, who appears to have had the President worrying the most, given the frequency and intensity of his public attacks on him, his age, his intellect, his experience as President Barack Obama\u2019s vice-president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Democrats kicked off their search for their 2020 nominee on Wednesday with the first leg of their inaugural presidential debate in Miami, Florida. Ten candidates, with Senator Elizabeth Warren in the middle, will take the stage for two hours of grilling by a panel of journalists on prime-time television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But it\u2019s an open field, a most diverse collection of candidates in US history with six women, two African-Americans, one Indian-American, one Hindu American, one of Hispanic-descent, one Asian American and an openly gay married man. At this stage, any one of them has as good a chance of going through as a little known African American senator had in 2007, Barack Obama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Each candidate will get 60 minutes to answer questions on the debate, 30 seconds for rebuttals, and one minute for their closing remarks. The format will remain the same for the next debate, which will be split again into two legs, on July 30 and 31. The next debates, however, are expected to be smaller with qualifying rules becoming progressively tighter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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