The Next Debate Stage Won’t Look Like the Democratic Party

With Kamala Harris’s unexpected departure from the presidential race Tuesday, the lineup of the next primary debate has become something the Democratic Party as a whole decidedly is not: all white. With Tulsi Gabbard and Andrew Yang yet to qualify, and Cory Booker and Julían Castro unlikely to, the debate stage will be notably lacking in ethnic diversity. How did we go from a debate stage early last summer that was the most diverse in history to a race where all the leading candidates are white?