MSNBC announces four all-star female moderators for November debate

[babylonsister]

MSNBC announces four all-star female moderators for November debate
The two-hour Democratic face off will take place on Nov. 20 in Georgia.
Oct. 23, 2019, 5:16 PM EDT / Updated Oct. 23, 2019, 5:24 PM EDT
By Dareh Gregorian


The fifth Democratic presidential primary debate in Georgia will have four moderators, MSNBC announced on Wednesday — and all of them are women.

Moderating the Nov. 20th event, which is being co-hosted by MSNBC and The Washington Post, will be Rachel Maddow, host of The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC, Andrea Mitchell, host of Andrea Mitchell Reports on MSNBC and NBC News chief foreign Affairs correspondent, Kristen Welker, NBC News White House correspondent, and Ashley Parker, Washington Post White House reporter.

The debate will likely feature a smaller lineup of candidates than the dozen who qualified for October's debate in Ohio — only eight candidates have qualified for the debate stage so far, according to an unofficial NBC News tally. It will also be shorter than the three-hour October debate — it's scheduled to air between 9 and 11 p.m. ET.

It will air live on MSNBC and will also stream on MSNBC.com and the Post's website, as well as across mobile devices via NBC News and the Post's mobile apps.

The city, venue and format will be announced at a later date, according to MSNBC.

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[scheming daemons]

1. SMART!

[Garrett78]

3. 25% of the questions will be about Hillary's emails.

[sheshe2]

7. Andrea Mitchell will be in charge of that.

[Garrett78]

9. I'll never forgive her. That's all she would talk about, even when the topic was unrelated.

[sheshe2]

13. I will never forgive her either, Garrett.

What a poor choice to moderate the debates.

[TeamPooka]

4. 3 out of 4.

[Me.]

5. Same Here

Parker is the queen of 'sort of' followed by 'a little bit'

[TeamPooka]

8. No Joy Reid? and even Morning Mika would be better than Mitchell.

[snowybirdie]

6. Not Andrea!

She'll forget her questions in the middle. Time to retire and she and Alan can count their money.

[CTyankee]

15. I'm old and even I find Andrea just a bit too foggy for this assignment.

I know they don't want to look ageist but Andrea is really not at the top of her game...

[Dem4Life1102]

19. She'll ask questions based on

discredited GOP talking points like she did in 16

[smirkymonkey]

10. Ugh, Andrea Mitchell.

Well, at least Rachel will be there and the other two are fine.

[Sedona]

11. I'd like to swap out Andrea for Joy Reid

[mcar]

12. I hope this means they will actually ask about

women's rights, criminal justice reform, the environment, and education and not spend the first half of the debate on healthcare.

Healthcare is, of course, of vital importance, but it's been covered over and over.

[Mike Nelson]

14. So, I guess...

... Andrea will be lobbying the others for the rights to the Biden Ukraine question...

[nolabear]

16. Someday I hope this isn't even noteworthy, but I'm delighted.

And can we take a sec before we start ripping them apart? We could use a little unity while the other side is finally not showing much.

[lostnfound]

17. Wish they'd swap out Andrea for Nicole Wallace

Would be good to lure some moderate republicans so to watching

[W_HAMILTON]

18. Not really super thrilled about the lineup...

...but at least, thank god, no Chuck Todd.

[BronxBoy]

20. Well Alright...Alright...Alright....

Four White women. I'm sure they'll sufficiently cover my issues