Impeachment Is First Topic at 5th Democratic Debate

(L-R) Democratic presidential hopefuls Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), former Vice President Joe Biden, and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) participate in the fifth Democratic primary debate of the 2020 presidential campaign season on Nov. 20, 2019. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

The topic of impeachment dominated the opening segment of the fifth Democratic debate on Nov. 20, just hours after the latest public testimony in the Democrat-run impeachment inquiry.

All of the candidates onstage had called for impeachment proceedings to begin before the House of Representatives voted to authorize the inquiry.