--- title: Democratic Debate: Watch Live Stream Online Free description: Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders will square off Thursday night for the last time before the New Hampshire primary next week canonical: https://time.com/4207710/democratic-debate-watch-live-stream-online-free/ author: Justin Worland article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-04T15:02:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:48:14.205Z article:section: Politics og:title: How to Watch Tonight's Democratic Debate og:description: Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders will square off Thursday night for the last time before the New Hampshire primary next week og:url: https://time.com/4207710/democratic-debate-watch-live-stream-online-free/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltea6c80ad9b562d20/69887c203c16398b8245be0a/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-democratic-debate.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Bernie Sanders Hillary Clinton og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How to Watch Tonight's Democratic Debate twitter:description: Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders will square off Thursday night for the last time before the New Hampshire primary next week twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltea6c80ad9b562d20/69887c203c16398b8245be0a/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-democratic-debate.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # How to Watch Tonight's Democratic Debate (4 Feb 2016) > Sponsored content. 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Bernie Sanders appear during the NBC News democratic Debate on Jan. 17. NBC—NBC Photo Bank via Getty Images  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Feb 4, 2016 3:02 PM UTC Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders will square off Thursday night for the last time before the New Hampshire primary next week. The debate will air live on MSNBC at 9 p.m. Eastern and will be live streamed at NBCNews.com and MSNBC.com. The event is one of [four debates](http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/democrats-add-four-more-debates-n510691) added by the Democratic National Committee in recent days as the race between Clinton and Sanders has grown closer than many originally anticipated. The debate marks the first head-to-head face-off between Sanders and Clinton. Former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, the third member of previous Democratic debates, [dropped out](http://time.com/4203646/martin-omalley-to-suspend-presidential-campaign-after-iowa-caucuses/) of the race after the Iowa caucuses. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4207710/democratic-debate-watch-live-stream-online-free/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4207710/democratic-debate-watch-live-stream-online-free/"},"headline":"How to Watch Tonight's Democratic Debate (4 Feb 2016)","datePublished":"2016-02-04T15:02:46.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:48:14.205Z","description":"Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders will square off Thursday night for the last time before the New Hampshire primary next week","url":"https://time.com/4207710/democratic-debate-watch-live-stream-online-free/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltea6c80ad9b562d20/69887c203c16398b8245be0a/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-democratic-debate.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Justin Worland","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/justin-worland/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltea6c80ad9b562d20/69887c203c16398b8245be0a/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-democratic-debate.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Bernie Sanders Hillary Clinton","caption":"Bernie Sanders Hillary Clinton","creditText":"NBC—NBC Photo Bank via Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4207710/democratic-debate-watch-live-stream-online-free/","name":"How to Watch Tonight's Democratic Debate (4 Feb 2016)"}}]}] ```