On Sunday night, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders will face off in their seventh debate, less than a week after Clinton expanded her delegate lead on Super Tuesday and in-between additional primaries and caucuses on Saturday, Sunday and Tuesday.
CNN will host the debate, which begins at 8 p.m. ET, from the Frances Wilson Library on the University of Michigan’s campus in Flint.
Both candidates have repeatedly highlighted the water crisis in Flint during the campaign. Clinton has said that “what happened in Flint is immoral,” and Sanders called on Gov. Rick Snyder to resign a while ago. The crisis dates all the way back to 2014 when a state-appointed emergency manager decided to switch Flint’s water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River to save money. But the water from that river was corrosive and caused lead to seep into old pipes, which has left many Flint residents with long-term health effects associated with lead exposure and might have caused deadly cases of Legionnaires’ disease.
The debate will come just a day after voters headed to the polls or caucus sites in the Democratic race in Kansas, Louisiana and Nebraska, the same day as the Maine Democratic caucuses, and just two days before Michigan and Mississippi hold their primaries.
It also will happen less than a week after Clinton had double-digit victories on Super Tuesday in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia and Tennessee. She also picked up Virginia, a key swing state in a general election, and Massachusetts where it was considered a close race with Sanders. She also won Texas and Georgia by wide margins. Sanders won four states: Vermont, his home state, as well as Oklahoma, Colorado and Minnesota.
According to CBS News’ latest count, Clinton has racked up 1,054 delegates while Sanders has 409. A candidate needs 2,383 delegates in order to win the nomination.
Sanders’ campaign, however, is confident that they’ll win some of the nominating contests coming up.
“We do not think the calendar ahead looks nearly as good [for Clinton] as [Tuesday]. Not a single day,” said Tad Devine, Sanders’ senior campaign strategist, on a conference call with reporters.
The Republican race, meanwhile, has reached a new level.
Last weekend, after Trump failed to immediately disavow the Ku Klux Klan and its former grand wizard David Duke, Hillary Clinton said she was “disappointed” in the GOP frontrunner.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, told CBS News on Tuesday night that Republicans would lose to Hillary Clinton if Trump wins the party’s nomination.
“We’re going to lose,” Graham said. “You’ll never convince me that Donald Trump is the answer to the problem we have with Hispanics. It will tear the party apart, it will divide conservatism, and we’re gonna lose to Hillary Clinton and have the third term of Barack Obama.”
→ What: Seventh Democratic presidential debate
→ Where: Flint, Michigan
→ When: 8 p.m. ET on CNN
→ On TV: CNN
→ Online: CNN.com
→ CBSN will have updates on the Democratic debate beginning at 8 p.m. ET
CNN’s Anderson Cooper will moderate the debate.
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