Democratic debate: Who won? Candidates clash over healthcare, immigration, impeachment and more

If you plan to watch the Democratic debate Wednesday night, you can do so via NBC, MSNBC and Telemundo from 9 to 11pm EST. 

The networks will be streaming the debates online as well as on YouTube and Twitter. 

For an in-depth look at the Democratic presidential candidates facing off Wednesday and Thursday night, you can read more here. 

With so many candidates in the running, Wednesday and Thursday's debates will offer one of the first opportunities for some of the lesser-known candidates to introduce themselves to voters. 

With Donald Trump on his way to Japan for the G20 meeting, where trade talks with China's President Xi Jinping and a meeting with Russia's President Vladimir Putin will take centre stage, you would have thought he would have enough on his plate.

But he is already tweeting regularly and we can expect him to likely do so during the debate.

First is Robert Mueller's Russia report and the question he raised that the president could have committed obstruction of that investigation. Mr Mueller is due to testify to Congress next month and Mr Trump is not happy.

He stats on impeachment and the cost of the investigation are both exaggerated.

Immigration will be the top topic today after the outcry caused by the photograph of the bodies of Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez and his 23-month-old  daughter Valeria in the waters of the Rio Grande. The picture further highlighted the plight faced by Central American migrants hoping to claim asylum in America.

Mr Trump has blamed the deaths on the Democrats refusing to go along with his hardline plans over immigration at the border - with the Democrats saying the president has to take his share of the blame thanks to his callous policies.

On Air Force One, Mr Trump is tweeting about the "bipartisan humanitarian assistance" that the Senate has passed this evening. It will likely do little to quell his critics over his handling of the border.

The tweets are coming thick and fast from the president now. He is back to complaining about his former presidential rival Hillary Clinton and the fact that former members of the intelligence community against him and helped fuel the Mueller investigation.

The Mueller investigation would have happened whatever the situation around the the people he mentions.

The theatrics are coming out in full force-- and a lot of different interests are mixing just outside the debate arena. Walk a few feet and you'll run into Union activists, and Planned a parenthood activists, and then a bunch of NYPD cops calling Bill DeBlasio a "liar". Poor guy can't catch a break.

The vast majority of Democratic voters say they will be tuning in to their party's first presidential debates, according to a new Hill-HarrisX poll found.

In the poll, 77 per cent of registered voters who identified as Democrats said they are either very or somewhat likely to tune in tonight and Thursday.

Overall, 62 per cent of voters said they were likely to view the 2020 candidates face off, including 56 per cent of independent participants and 52 per cent of Republicans.

Tom Perez, the Chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), has claimed that the party has a "deep" field when it comes to candidates and that voters will find something they like.