ARIZONA GOP DEBATE WILL INCLUDE QUESTIONS FROM LOCALS

posted by Andrea Kelly

Tonight’s debate is the twenty first scheduled so far this presidential election cycle, so CNN decided to mix it up a bit.

For the first time, the four front-runner GOP candidates are sitting side-by-side at a table, instead of standing behind lecterns.

The change is because a field of just four candidates allows for a more intimate setting, says Sam Feist, CNN's Washington bureau chief.

Some of the questions the candidates will field at that table will be from Arizonans.

CNN worked with the Arizona Republican Party to help find some undecided voters, Fiest says, and started with a list of hundreds of people.

“We get that pool of voters down to truly undecided voters, people who just frankly haven’t made up their mind, they haven’t been involved in anybody’s campaign, they haven’t made any contributions whatsoever and so that’s the group of people that will be in a position to ask some questions," he says.

The debate gets underway at 6 p.m. and is the last scheduled before Arizona’s primary next Tuesday. It’s also the last before several states vote on Super Tuesday, March 6.