“The day after I made it clear I was going to run, there was like this huge editorial in The Wall Street Journal, and not even attacking me. We knew — we deal with the corporate media all the time.”The Democratic National Committee’s management of the party debates has emerged as another central frustration. Aware of criticism leveled during the 2016 campaign by Mr. Sanders and his supporters that the committee organized the debate schedule to favor Hillary Clinton, the eventual nominee, the D.N.C. set the standard deliberately low for the first two debates, scheduled for June and July. Candidates are required to raise money from 65,000 donors in 20 states or reach 1 percent in three approved polls, with the field capped at 20 participants.

Source: New York Times June 11, 2019 20:26 UTC