--- title: How to Watch Tonight's Democratic Debate Online description: CNN will air the debate at 9 p.m. EST. canonical: https://time.com/4293262/how-to-watch-tonights-democratic-debate-online/ author: Daniel White article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-04-14T13:00:05.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-26T20:00:56.549Z article:section: Politics og:title: How to Watch Tonight's Democratic Debate Online og:description: CNN will air the debate at 9 p.m. EST og:url: https://time.com/4293262/how-to-watch-tonights-democratic-debate-online/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf0a927dc46f5c2f7/69888f09cf40a818e8c42ce8/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT) and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton are seen on stage during a break in the broadcast of the Univision News and Washington Post Democratic Presidential Primary Debate at th og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How to Watch Tonight's Democratic Debate Online twitter:description: CNN will air the debate at 9 p.m. EST twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf0a927dc46f5c2f7/69888f09cf40a818e8c42ce8/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # How to Watch Tonight's Democratic Debate Online (14 Apr 2016) by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Apr 14, 2016 1:00 PM UTC  Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT) and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton are seen on stage during a break in the broadcast of the Univision News and Washington Post Democratic Presidential Primary Debate at the Miami Dade College's Kendall Campus on March 9, 2016 in Miami, Florida. Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT) and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton are seen on stage during a break in the broadcast of the Univision News and Washington Post Democratic Presidential Primary Debate at the Miami Dade College's Kendall Campus on March 9, 2016 in Miami, Florida.Joe Raedle—Getty Images by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Apr 14, 2016 1:00 PM UTC Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton will debate Thursday night at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The New York debate takes place a little less than a week before the New York presidential primary the following Tuesday. CNN will air the debate and it will stream live online on the network’s website. Sanders and Clinton agreed to the debate after prolonged negotiations over the date, which Sanders initially rejected. The Democratic contest has [grown heated over the past two weeks](http://time.com/4289129/hillary-clinton-sanders-gun-policies/), as the two candidates have traded blows, including [a testy exchange last week over qualifications](http://time.com/4284934/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-qualified-new-york-primary/). Sanders has taken [seven of the last eight state contests](http://time.com/4287686/bernie-sanders-wins-wyoming-caucuses/), giving the Democratic race a more competitive feel after Clinton ran away with many of the early contests. CNN’s Wolf Blitzer will moderate along with Dana Bash, CNN’s chief political correspondent and Errol Louis, host of NY1’s “Inside City Hall.” The debate starts at 9 p.m. Eastern time. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4293262/how-to-watch-tonights-democratic-debate-online/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4293262/how-to-watch-tonights-democratic-debate-online/"},"headline":"How to Watch Tonight's Democratic Debate Online (14 Apr 2016)","datePublished":"2016-04-14T13:00:05.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-26T20:00:56.549Z","description":"CNN will air the debate at 9 p.m. EST","url":"https://time.com/4293262/how-to-watch-tonights-democratic-debate-online/","keywords":["2016 Election","Hillary Clinton","democrats","2016 Election topic","Bernie Sanders","Debates"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf0a927dc46f5c2f7/69888f09cf40a818e8c42ce8/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Daniel White","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/daniel-white/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf0a927dc46f5c2f7/69888f09cf40a818e8c42ce8/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT) and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton are seen on stage during a break in the broadcast of the Univision News and Washington Post Democratic Presidential Primary Debate at th","caption":"Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT) and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton are seen on stage during a break in the broadcast of the Univision News and Washington Post Democratic Presidential Primary Debate at th","creditText":"Joe Raedle—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/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4293262/how-to-watch-tonights-democratic-debate-online/","name":"How to Watch Tonight's Democratic Debate Online (14 Apr 2016)"}}]}] ```