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DETROIT – The long-simmering tensions between the Democratic presidential field’s progressive standard-bearers and moderate hopefuls burst out into the open during the second primary debate on Tuesday night, as candidates from both flanks challenged one another on issues central to the race.

DETROIT - Centrist Democratic contenders slugged it out with their liberal counterparts on the first night of the second Democratic debate on Tuesday. The debate featured 10 candidates, including progressive stars Sens. MORE. Here are five takeaways from a testy night in the Motor City. 1. Debate puts Democratic divides on display A fight has been brewing for months between the Democratic primary field’s moderate candidates and progressive contenders. On Tuesday, it erupted into public view. It was former Rep.

“The minimum wage is just too low, and so-called conservative Christian senators right now in the Senate are blocking a bill to raise the minimum wage, when Scripture says that whoever oppresses the poor taunts their maker,” he said, citing the book of Proverbs. The South Bend mayor criticized Republicans during the CNN Democrat Debate on Tuesday as the candidates discussed the loss of manufacturing jobs in Michigan. Buttigieg did not offer any specific solutions for car factory workers losing their jobs, other than worker retraining. He recalled that his own city of South Bend struggled after

While advocating for decriminalizing illegal immigration into the U.S., Warren claimed she had witnessed with her own eyes “cages of babies” held in detention at the southern border. “What we can’t do is not live our values,” Warren said. “I’ve been down to the border, I have seen the mothers, I have seen the cages of babies. We must be a country that every day lives our values.

“If a mother and a child walk thousands of miles on a dangerous path, in my view, they are not criminals …  We’ve got to ask ourselves, “Why are people walking 2,000 miles to a strange country where they don’t know the language?” Sanders claimed during the debate. In reality, migrants take a cartel-run bus service or rely on their smugglers’ mix of trains, trucks, cars, and buses. For example, CNBC reported April 29 “the Rand study [of the coyote networks] found that huma

The growing pushback comes as Sen. Lindsey Graham is quietly readying an immigration bill for a Thursday vote in the Senate’s judiciary committee. Graham’s focus is asylum reforms, but he also supports the investors’ bill, titled S.368, or the “Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act.” Many would-be immigrants will lose their places in line if the investors get their Indian contract workers to the head of the green card lines.

President Trump will host a rally in Manchester next month in his first campaign visit to New Hampshire since 2016. The Trump campaign announced the Aug.

WASHINGTON — Ten Democratic presidential contenders vied for advantage Tuesday night in the second round of the party’s 2020 campaign debates. A look at some of their statements in Detroit and how they compare with the facts: John Hickenlooper, former Colorado governor: When it comes to fighting climate change, ‘‘What we do here is a best practice and a template that’s got to be done all over the world. ...