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Donkees

(31,091 posts)
Wed Jun 19, 2019, 07:58 AM Jun 2019

New York Times Interactive 18 Questions: Senator Bernie Sanders

We tracked down the 2020 Democrats and asked them the same set of questions:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/us/politics/bernie-sanders-2020-campaign.html

ABOUT THE PROJECT
The New York Times reached out to 22 Democratic presidential candidates to ask them the same set of questions on video. Twenty-one accepted the invitation.

Joseph R. Biden Jr. declined to participate despite repeated requests since late April.

Most of the candidates visited the studio in our New York City office; for a few who could not, we traveled to Iowa, Texas and Washington, D.C. The sessions took place between the beginning of March and early June. During the interviews, we asked candidates to answer each question briefly — with a simple yes or no, or another terse, direct reply — before explaining their views at greater length.

One candidate, Elizabeth Warren, who was the first to be interviewed, returned for a second session after we added a number of questions to our initial list. We did not ask John Hickenlooper when his family first arrived in the United States because we added that question after his interview.

In the case of one question — regarding President Trump’s legal issues — the candidates answered at different points during the completion of the investigation by Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III, so their answers reflected the facts available to them at the time.


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New York Times Interactive 18 Questions: Senator Bernie Sanders (Original Post) Donkees Jun 2019 OP
Fascinating and really helps me feel confident in my choice. Nanjeanne Jun 2019 #1
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