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Kamala Harris Won't Be on Tonight's Debate Stage. No Matter Who Your Candidate Is, That Should Matter to You


To recap: While billionaire Michael Bloomberg, who entered the race in November, will be able to self-fund his new campaign, Castro has not been on the debate stage in months. Booker failed to clear the barrier for tonight’s event. Neither of the men, both non-white, have been able to raise enough money or garner enough support to make the cut. Gillibrand, like Harris, ended her campaign because she didn’t see a path to remain in the race. And over the past few months, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has suffered in the polls, even after a significant rise over the summer. Each week, it seems, there’s some new speculation on whether or not her affect and approach will make her too unlikeable and unelectable for voters to support.

As critics have pointed out, those stories are published in the same publications that often lavish coverage on white men who remain in the race. (In April, media outlets gushed over Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s ability to speak Norwegian while seemingly ignoring Gillibrand’s complete fluency in Mandarin. And much has been made of the fact that Buttigieg was a Rhodes scholar, though far fewer have noted that Booker was too.)

Harris and Gillibrand both brought up issues, in their campaigning and during debates, that are less likely to be discussed in detail in their absence. Both women were unapologetic in their support of women’s reproductive freedom, for example, and both, in their advocacy, highlighted the relationship between systemic racism and sexism. Booker and Castro, who remain in the race but will not be on the debate stage, have also demonstrated a willingness to discuss women’s rights and how those issues are related to other concerns, such as immigration, mass incarceration, and gun violence.

During the first Democratic debate in June, for example, both Harris and Booker took former Vice President Joe Biden to task over his history of opposing school busing. Harris took the lead in the confrontation, referencing her own childhood experiences with segregation. Her direct approach, as well as her ability to draw on a personal narrative, won the night. After the debate, her poll numbers moved into double digits for the first and ultimately only time.



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Four Seasoned Journalists Will Moderate Tonight's Presidential Debate. They Happen to Be Women.


The four jouranlists are some of the most practiced reporters and commentators on television. Between them, Rachel Maddow, Andrea Mitchell, Ashley Parker, and Kristen Welker have covered Congress, the White House, presidential races, and the State Department. (Mitchell has herself reported on all four of those beats.) Each is so seasoned she seems to have eliminated verbal tics from her speech—the “ums” and “likes” that mere mortals can’t shake.

But in conversation with them, there are phrases that crop up like punctuation.

It’s the first week of November and the fifth presidential debate set to take place in Atlanta, Georgia, is imminent, hosted on MSNBC with the Washington Post. Late last month, the network announced its four moderators—Maddow, who hosts her namesake show on the network; Mitchell, a veteran with the network since 1978; Parker, a White House reporter for the Washington Post; and NBC News White House correspondent Welker.

Rachel Maddow on Today.

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Andrea Mitchell on Meet the Press.

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The top brass went with their finest, of course—a balance of expertise, from Maddow, with her finger on the pulse of Democratic voters, to Mitchell, who is the chief NBC News foreign affairs correspondent, to Parker and Welker, who report on this particular White House on a minute-to-minute basis. (“I’ve got four of the best journalists ever,” explains Rashida Jones, senior vice president for specials on NBC News and MSNBC. “Andrea and Kristen and Rachel and Ashley—they know how to interview people.”)

And oh, sure. That’s right. All are women.

As Mitchell, Welker, and Parker tell it when we meet at 30 Rockefeller Center in a snug, bright conference room, these three in particular also happen to be friends, with Parker and Welker spending hours racing between their offices and the White House and both appearing on Mitchell’s show, Andrea Mitchell Reports.

And so when the women talk, these are the words that get repeated over and over. Not “uh” or “well,” but: “To Ashley’s point,” “As Kristen said,” “Let me just add about these two,” “I agree with Andrea,” and “No, please. You first.”

What’s it like to be in a room or at a table or on camera with four of the most accomplished women in journalism? Well, there’s a lot of credit to spread around, bottomless praise, and no one interrupts.

Pressed to describe her relationship with her female coworkers, Mitchell observes that the group “tends to be more collegial.” Later, she adds: “I don’t want to be sexist, but there is a different feeling in the room when we’re preparing.”



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Tonight's 'Grey's Anatomy' Episode Will Be Titled '1-800-799-7233' for This Important Reason


As longtime fans of Grey’s Anatomy know, music is almost as much a part of the show as the hospital formerly known as Seattle Grace. If you’re anything like me, you can name the song that was playing during the most emotional moments. There’s “Breathe (2 AM)” as Meredith is about to take a live grenade out of someone’s chest or when Cristina and Mer danced it out one last time to Tegan and Sara. And, of course, there’s the iconic scene set to “Chasing Cars” after Denny died in season two.

What it might take people a moment to realize, though, is that every episode title over all these years is pulled from a song. The pilot? “A Hard Day’s Night.” The aforementioned two-parter with a bomb in a body? “It’s the End of the World As We Know It” and “And I Feel Fine.” An episode just last November name checks Hamilton with “Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story.” But that streak ends tonight—and for a very powerful reason.

At the end of the winter finale, we were left with a cliffhanger that saw Jo’s (Camilla Luddington) abusive ex-husband (played by Glee‘s Matthew Morrison) show up at the hospital to confront her. She’s gone to enormous lengths to stay away from this dangerous man, going so far as to change her identity. Tonight’s episode will continue that story—and because of this, the original title, “Four Seasons in One Day,” has been changed to “1-800-799-7233,” the actual phone number for the National Domestic Violence Hotline.

Grey’s Anatomy showrunner Krista Vernoff tweeted that the “brilliant” idea was suggested to her by actor Giacomo Gianniotti, who plays Dr. Andrew DeLuca. We’re glad he spoke up:

“Krista [Vernoff], and myself and all the writers, because it’s been such a long time coming, there have been so many conversations with domestic abuse organizations,” Luddington explained in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. “We ended up feeling like even just the words and the dialogue that we wanted to use in several scenes, we were just particular with it, because at the end of the day, we wanted to tell this story right, and also educate people that have misconceptions about domestic abuse, who it happens to, and what it looks like. Conversations have been going on for a very, very long time in order to tell this story the right way that we felt like got the message across that we needed to get across with it.”





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