--- title: Democratic Debate: Watch It in Under Four Minutes description: Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley debated Saturday. canonical: https://time.com/4113575/democratic-debate-video/ author: TIME Video article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-11-15T04:46:15.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T12:38:16.840Z article:section: Politics og:title: Watch the Second Democratic Debate in Under Four Minutes og:description: Here's your highlight reel. og:url: https://time.com/4113575/democratic-debate-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcd2c782e313c4d65/698871280a4a2243109c70bb/democratic-debate.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: US-VOTE-DEMOCRATS-DEBATE og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch the Second Democratic Debate in Under Four Minutes twitter:description: Here's your highlight reel. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcd2c782e313c4d65/698871280a4a2243109c70bb/democratic-debate.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch the Second Democratic Debate in Under Four Minutes by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Nov 15, 2015 4:46 AM UTC  The second Democratic presidential primary debate in the Sheslow Auditorium of Drake University in Des Moines, IO on Nov. 14, 2015. The second Democratic presidential primary debate in the Sheslow Auditorium of Drake University in Des Moines, IO on Nov. 14, 2015.Mandel Ngan—AFP/Getty Images by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Nov 15, 2015 4:46 AM UTC And then there were three. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley debated for two hours during the second Democratic debate. In the wake of the terrorism attacks in Paris, the Des Moines debate began with a moment of silence for the victims and dove straight into topics of terrorism and foreign policy. Clinton, Sanders and O’Malley also had heated discussions over gun control, minimum wage, and college debt. Watch the video above to catch the highlights. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4113575/democratic-debate-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4113575/democratic-debate-video/"},"headline":"Watch the Second Democratic Debate in Under Four Minutes","datePublished":"2015-11-15T04:46:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T12:38:16.840Z","description":"Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley debated Saturday.","url":"https://time.com/4113575/democratic-debate-video/","keywords":["Debates","Hillary Clinton","2016 Election topic","Bernie Sanders","Martin O'malley"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcd2c782e313c4d65/698871280a4a2243109c70bb/democratic-debate.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcd2c782e313c4d65/698871280a4a2243109c70bb/democratic-debate.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"US-VOTE-DEMOCRATS-DEBATE","caption":"US-VOTE-DEMOCRATS-DEBATE","creditText":"Mandel Ngan—AFP/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":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/debates/","name":"Debates"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4113575/democratic-debate-video/","name":"Watch the Second Democratic Debate in Under Four Minutes"}}]}] ```