Name: What to look for in the PBS NewsHour/POLITICO Democratic debate
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JOHN YANG: We are just more than an hour away from the "PBS NewsHour"/Politico debate, which

starts at 8:00 p.m. Eastern on PBS stations.

For a preview, "NewsHour" political correspondent Lisa Desjardins is in Los Angeles with a roundtable

And, Lisa, it seems like I was just talking to you from the Capitol about the impeachment

Could you just not -- you just couldn't wait to get out of town after last night?

LISA DESJARDINS: Well, you can't accuse "PBS NewsHour" of being on just one coast.

And I think, John, as our viewers know, that's just how the news is these days.

How many topics are you covering in a single show?

And the stories are moving faster than we can, almost.

That's the difference between you and me.

JOHN YANG: And, sometimes, you keep ahead of them.

To help us through this debate tonight, we have an esteemed panel.

They will be with me now, also through the entire debate.

Let me introduce our wonderful anchor of "NewsHour West," Stephanie Sy, next to her, friend of

"NewsHour" Amy Walter, of course, of Politics Monday and The Cook Political Report.

Next to her, we have Ryan Lizza of Politico, and, of course, Laura Barron-Lopez also, national

Ladies and gentlemen, I have a question for you.

With all of this news, how do any of these candidates stand out, get any attention tonight?

Stephanie, what could happen here that could get some voters' attention?

STEPHANIE SY: You know, I think a lot of voters are actually paying attention to these debates,

So, I think, really, for these candidates to stand out, it has to be about policy, and

The first of the voting is less than two months away.

There are still so many people that don't know who they're voting for.

So, I think the candidates that really resonate are the ones that can connect on a deeper

You know, I think they want to get to know people.

We did a poll, PBS/NPR/Marist, last week that showed most Democratic voters care about most

about the candidate that can beat President Trump, vs. the candidate that they identify

So I know a lot of the Democratic voters I spoke to recently, they are picturing which

are these candidates looks presidential and they can picture on a debate stage, if there

AMY WALTER, The Cook Political Report: With President Trump, yes.

LISA DESJARDINS: Amy, I saw you nodding about that.

We're 46 days, as Stephanie alluded to, from the Iowa caucuses.

LISA DESJARDINS: Believe it or not, people, we're there.

LISA DESJARDINS: Where it where is the voter mind-set, the undecided voter mind-set now?

AMY WALTER: Well, the undecided voter mind-set, of course, is thinking about holiday shopping.

It's still -- so, this is both -- it's a good time and a difficult time for these candidates,

not just the deluge of news, but people are literally traveling everywhere and getting

But, look, this is the last time that these presidential candidates are going to have

a national audience before we hit the Iowa debate in the middle of -- in the middle of

January, which is only a couple weeks before the Iowa caucuses.

And the other thing, Lisa, as you very well know, a lot of the folks who are sitting on

the stage may be spending some of their January, a lot of their January, stuck in Washington

And so the fact that this may be the last time for a while that we will see all of them

together -- and I think Stephanie makes a good point.

As they're all -- these are the top -- these are the top candidates all in one place.

The fact that it's a smaller field means that we could probably get more of a robust discussion

than you could get with 10 or 12 candidates on stage.

LISA DESJARDINS: And let's look at this small field tonight, the smallest field we have

Let's look at the lineup that we have got.

These candidates will be on stage in order, roughly, by their polling, with the highest-polling

That is former Vice President Joe Biden, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and Massachusetts Senator

They will be flanked by the other candidates who met the tougher qualifications for this

debate, going left to right, Andrew Yang.

Then we have got former Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, then, on the other side, another

senator, Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, and another businessman, Tom Steyer.

LISA DESJARDINS: ... what lineups are you interested in looking at?

Who will engage with each other, do you think, tonight?

LISA DESJARDINS: What are the important points of differentiating that we could see?

RYAN LIZZA: Yes, you have a real dogfight in the two early states, with those four candidates

in the center basically being bunched up very close to each other.

You could make a case for any of those four winning Iowa, winning New Hampshire.

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