The FIFTH Democratic presidential debate will take place on Wednesday, November 20th in Atlanta, Georgia and will be hosted by MSNBC and The Washington Post. The debate will be moderated by an all-female panel of journalists and hosted at filmmaker Tyler Perry’s studios in Atlanta.

The criteria for qualifying for the November are:

1) They’ve secured at least 165,000 individual donors, including 600 individual donors from 20 states and

2) They’ve reached 3 percent in the polls in four Democratic National Committee (DNC) approved surveys, or 5 percent in two DNC approved polls from the four earliest primary and caucus states — Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada.

WHO WILL TAKE THE STAGE?

The deadline for meeting these requirements is November 13. We will provide the list of names of qualified candidates once it has been officially announced by the DNC.

TO WATCH FROM HOME

The debate is expected to air on MSNBC and Radio One, and stream live on MSNBC.com and WashingtonPost.com.

DEBATE WATCH EVENTS IN FRANCE

Join Democrats Abroad France to watch the full debate via replay. Currently, the debate watch events being hosted by our  chapters are:

PARIS CHAPTER

WHEN: Friday, November 22

TIME: 7pm - 10pm

PLACE: JOE ALLEN, 30 RUE PIERRE LESCOT, PARIS 75001

RSVP

MARSEILLE CHAPTER

For all the up-to-date information on our debate watch events, bookmark this page or the DAF Events Calendar. 

Want to volunteer to help or host an event? Contact your local chapter or send us an email at volunteer@democratsabroad.fr.

We hope to see you at one of our events!

It is Meet the Team Monday!  Today, we continue our blog series with an interview with our National Volunteer Coordinator - Gretchen Pascalis.

Gretchen Pascalis the National Volunteer Coordinator for Democrats Abroad France. 

She initially became involved in 2011 when DAF “descended upon Grenoble in the hopes of creating a chapter,” and founded the Rhone-Alps chapter. In the wake of Trump’s election, Gretchen traveled to Lyon and helped found the Lyon chapter. “I thought a few people might show up. Instead, about twenty-five angry, sad, motivated people came to create a chapter, and it's been a privilege to work with several of them since then.” 

When she’s not organizing volunteer efforts for DAF, Gretchen is a university lecturer at the Université Savoie Mont Blanc. She votes in Maine.

Now, onto some fun facts about Gretchen:

• Her favorite political icon is Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez “because she's such a wonderful example of the difference that young females of color can make”
• Her top 3 issue areas are climate change, healthcare as a human right, and free public education. 
• Her first political memory was “picking up litter in a park as a child and exclaiming to my parents, "President Nixon ought to throw these people in jail!" 
• And, if she were President of the United States for a day, she would “rejoin the Paris agreement, ban automatic assault weapons, ban gerrymandering, provide free public education and healthcare to all, and end ICE.”

If you would like to find out more about the volunteer opportunities with Democrats Abroad France, please get in touch with Gretchen at volunteer@democratsabroad.fr.  There are lots of different ways that you can contribute to our efforts to WIN BIG and WIN BLUE in 2020!