DNC nixes live audience for Arizona debate
by Naomi Lim
| March 10, 2020 07:56 PM
The next Democratic primary debate won't be staged in front of a crowd amid growing fears regarding the coronavirus outbreak.
"At the request of both campaigns and out of an abundance of caution, there will be no live audience at the Arizona debate taking place on Sunday, March 15th," Democratic National Committee spokeswoman Xochitl Hinojosa wrote in a statement late Tuesday.
Despite local health officials and the mayor of Phoenix, Arizona, advising Democrats that the debate between Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders could go ahead as planned, the party's main organizing body decided against it for the safety of "our staff, campaigns, Arizonans, and all those involved in the debate," according to Hinojosa.
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