Most Democrats say DNC conducting debates 'fairly': poll

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BY JOHN BOWDEN - 06/19/19 07:39 AM EDT

A majority of voters in a new poll who plan to support a candidate in the Democratic presidential primary say they believe the 2020 field is being treated fairly so far by the Democratic National Committee (DNC).

Three years after the DNC faced sharp criticism from supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) for its handling of the 2016 primary, just 13 percent of voters now say their preferred candidate was treated "unfairly" by the DNC in next week's first debates, according to the Politico/Morning Consult survey released Tuesday.

Fifty four percent said that the DNC is acting "very" or "somewhat" fairly toward the 24 announced candidates in the Democratic primary.

A plurality of respondents, 45 percent, said that their top-choice candidate had made it in to the first two debates next week, compared to just 3 percent who said that none of the candidates they support for office had made the debate threshold. Thirty nine percent said that at least one candidate they support would be on stage.

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1. if they were not, how would we know?