2020 Democratic Debates We watched hours of Democrats debating. Here’s what we found.

For the first time this election cycle, the nation will get to see almost all of the Democrats running for president debate each other.

But what can you expect from the heavy hitters? POLITICO watched hours and hours of debate footage of five of the highest polling candidates who’ve debated during a run for federal office — starting at Congress all the way to the presidency.


Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris and Beto O’Rourke all fall into this category. We wanted to see what those old performances can tell us about how they might act or things they may say on Wednesday or Thursday.

Christopher Cadelago, Natasha Korecki, Holly Otterbein, David Siders and Alex Thompson contributed to this report.