HUFFPOST HILL - Cabinet Secretary Auditions Tonight

Donald Trump plans to tweet during tonight's Democratic debate, though an assistant probably has to type the actual tweets because Trump's got such stubby fingers. Jim Webb will be there, despite uncertainty over whether he's even still running for president. And we imagine Larry Lessig will be alone in his car at makeout point, listening to the debate on the radio, telling himself there's plenty of fish in the sea, that he'll show 'em, that he doesn't need to be part of some dumb debate ritual anyway. This is HUFFPOST HILL for Tuesday, October 13th, 2015:

DEBATE TONIGHT AT 9PM - Why this has to start even later than Monday Night Football, we don't know. Laurie Kellman: "Five Democrats vying to be President Barack Obama's successor meet Tuesday night for their first televised debate of the 2016 election, a confrontation between one of the best-known women on the planet and four men seeking to unseat her as the party's front-runner. But that quartet of rivals may not be Hillary Rodham Clinton's most immediate challenge. Instead, it's whether she can change the focus from emails she sent and received over a private server as secretary of state to the policies she's proposed to close the gap between rich Americans and everyone else. Her chief rival for the Democratic nomination, Vermont independent Sen. Bernie Sanders, isn't likely to let her stand out on that point." But Sanders probably won't be too mean about it. [AP]

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