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With Joe Biden the clear leader in Democratic polls — he has double the support of number two candidate Bernie Sanders — he is also the primary target.

Expect bare-knuckle political sparring when 2020 frontrunner Joe Biden battles his Democratic rivals this week, with challengers criticising him on racial issues and low-polling candidates seeking last-gasp breakouts for their sagging campaigns.

Trump himself has fueled the divisions, attacking ethnic minority lawmakers in tweets and campaign appearances that sparked fraught national deliberations about race relations in America. “If they want to argue about the past, I can do that,” Biden said at the fundraiser. “I got a past I’m proud of. They got a past that’s not quite so good.”

Biden, 76, has acknowledged he was ill-prepared to counter the brickbats against him in the opening debate. Booker dubbed Biden an “architect of mass incarceration” for supporting that bill, and he told the National Urban League that a candidate gets “no great badge of courage” for calling Trump a racist today.

 

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