Politics Corner, Democratic Debate, February 19th

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Hosted by NBC News and MSNBC

There are two giant elephants in the room tonight. One is the Republican who's been invited to debate as a Democrat. The other is that President Trump (and former Rep. Dana Rohrabacher) likely committed treason. I'm guessing NBC is going to both-sides the first and make Bloomberg the real boy, I'm sorry, "candidate" that he always wanted to be. [Daily Beast]

Wanna bet how little time that treason gets? Instead let's count the number of times the Dems get asked how they plan to win over Republicans.

Tonight's roster: NEEDS UPDATE

Former Vice President Joe Biden

Former Republican/Independent NYC Mayor "Mike" Bloomberg

South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg

Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders

Businessman Tom Steyer?

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren

In what will surely be a popular choice here, "NBC Nightly News" and "Dateline NBC" anchor Lester Holt, "Meet the Press" moderator and NBC News political director Chuck Todd, NBC News Chief White House Correspondent and host of "MSNBC Live" Hallie Jackson, Noticias Telemundo senior correspondent Vanessa Hauc and Jon Ralston of The Nevada Independent will moderate.

How to watch:

In addition to airing on NBC News and MSNBC, the debate will stream live on NBC News NOW on OTT devices, NBCNews.com, MSNBC.com, the NBC News mobile app, NBC News' and MSNBC's Facebook pages and online at The Nevada Independent. It will also air live in Spanish on Universo as well as the Noticias Telemundo mobile app and website and Noticias Telemundo's Facebook page.

Let the debate, and the discussion, begin!

(The sooner we get this over with the sooner more candidates drop out and begin to campaign for either the Senate or the Vice Presidency. Or someone else will decide to run for President. Maybe I'll run for President.)

(Our regularly scheduled Politics Corner returns tomorrow night.)