During the second night of the Democratic presidential debate on Thursday, most ...
MIAMI - During the second night of the Democratic presidential debate on Thursday, most eyes will likely be trained on former Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders – but for wildly divergent reasons.
Neither Biden nor Sanders was mentioned in a surprisingly heated first debate on Wednesday night, when 10 Democratic contenders clashed over healthcare and border policy but agreed there was a desperate need to remove Trump from the White House. An avowed “Democratic socialist,” Sanders has bashed the more moderate Biden over his record on trade, climate change, healthcare and, most recently, Biden’s remarks about working with segregationists during his early days in the Senate.
Warren, a progressive U.S. senator from Massachusetts, has been steadily climbing in opinion polls, pulling closer to Sanders for the No. 2 slot behind Biden. She was the first choice in a recent straw poll of members of the influential progressive group MoveOn, with Sanders coming second. As he has done on the campaign trail, he will likely spend the night defending his record and talking about Trump rather than other Democrats.Biden, 76, and Sanders, 77, will make for a sharp contrast with the younger candidates onstage, including 37-year-old Buttigieg, 52-year-old Gillibrand and 54-year-old Harris, three candidates who may represent the future of the party.
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