2015-12-19 Democratic presidential debate — scheduled start: Preceding debate in the 2015–16 Democratic series · Source
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Hillary ClintonDebating candidate
wikipedia · Actual participant in the selected debate, distinguished from invitations, withdrawn campaigns and cancelled later events.
Martin O’MalleyDebating candidate
wikipedia · Actual participant in the selected debate, distinguished from invitations, withdrawn campaigns and cancelled later events.
Bernie SandersDebating candidate
wikipedia · Actual participant in the selected debate, distinguished from invitations, withdrawn campaigns and cancelled later events.
John DickersonModerator or contributing questioner
paramountpressexpress.com · The selected event section or cited host source explicitly identifies the questioning role.
Nancy CordesModerator or contributing questioner
paramountpressexpress.com · The selected event section or cited host source explicitly identifies the questioning role.
Kevin CooneyModerator or contributing questioner
paramountpressexpress.com · The selected event section or cited host source explicitly identifies the questioning role.
Kathie ObradovichModerator or contributing questioner
paramountpressexpress.com · The selected event section or cited host source explicitly identifies the questioning role.
2016 Democratic Party presidential debate series2015–16 Democratic Party presidential debate series
wikipedia · The reviewed numbered debate sections identify this event as one debate in the nine-debate series. Series membership does not imply identical participant lists or a same-night programme.
Reviewed complete selected debate narrative, its participation/time row, and cited source paragraphs for direct participants and moderators. Actual candidates and named questioners retained; invitations, withdrawn/cancelled debates, historical figures, policy subjects, political reactions and remote social-media commentary are not attendance claims. Remaining gaps: complete audience questioners, campaign guests and production crew; full question-by-question transcripts were not exhaustively inspected.
Reviewed complete selected debate narrative, its participation/time row, and cited source paragraphs for direct participants and moderators. Actual candidates and named questioners retained; invitations, withdrawn/cancelled debates, historical figures, policy subjects, political reactions and remote social-media commentary are not attendance claims. Remaining gaps: complete audience questioners, campaign guests and production crew; full question-by-question transcripts were not exhaustively inspected.
Coverage describes the cited sections reviewed for this record.
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Wikipedia individual event record; Individually reviewed event clock, terrestrial location and participants
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Oct 29, 2026, 12:25 AM
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Source quality: source quoted - minute precision
Wikipedia individual event record
Individually reviewed event clock, terrestrial location and participants
Source label: Wikipedia event review
The individually reviewed event row gives this date and advertised start; the cited primary host/broadcaster notice or contemporary schedule corroborates the clock. Local offset validated against IANA. This is the defined broadcast/debate programme start, not first-question seconds. C-SPAN’s dated rebroadcast-permission release explicitly advertises the live Saturday debate at21:00ET; NBC’s later comparison table also records21:00–23:00ET. These convert to20:00CST at Drake. Current PDF direct open was unavailable; indexed original text was retrieved.