Posted by on December 19, 2019 6:32 pm
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Candidates taking the stage at Loyola Marymount University will seek to break through as impeachment dominates the headlines

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In a state increasingly plagued by rising sea levels, drought, flood, wildfires, the power shutoffs meant to prevent those wildfires, and recent efforts by the Trump administration to upend California’s environmental policies, the climate crisis is at the forefront of many voters minds.

Nearly half of Democratic voters ranked climate as their top priority in a poll by the Institute of Governmental Studies at UC Berkeley – slightly more than voters nationwide.

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The sixth Democratic presidential debate is scheduled to start at 8 p.m. E.T., and it will feature a record low number of candidates for this election cycle. Only seven candidates will take the stage: Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, Tom Steyer and Andrew Yang.

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