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MIAMI — Front-runner MORE faltered in the Democratic presidential primary debate here Thursday evening, suffering some damage at the hands of rivals while also stumbling of his own accord.  The former vice president hit particularly rocky ground when he was confronted by Sen. MORE (D-Calif.) on his recent warm words for two Southern segregationists of a previous era, the late Sens.

Anita Dunn, Symone Sanders, and their team — filling in for the candidate himself, who did not visit the spin room — faced a scrum of journalists who fired questions about what many in the media perceived as a poor showing. Sanders, in particular, battled mightily to defend Biden’s past statements and positions on school busing, which came under withering attack from Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), who said that she had been one of the young black Americans helped by desegregation efforts. Ms.

Former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Mayor Pete Buttigieg (South Bend, Indiana), Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), entrepreneur Andrew Yang, former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper, Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO), and spiritual adviser Marianne Williamson will be on the stage tonight. Lester Holt, Chuck “Ross Porter” Todd, Savannah Guthrie, Jose Diaz Balart, and Rachel Maddow will be the moderators for the NBC debate, and Breitbart News’ Joel Pollak is on the ground at the debate site.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says federal courts have no role to play in policing political districts drawn for partisan gain. The decision could embolden political line-drawing for partisan gain when state lawmakers undertake the next round of redistricting following the 2020 census. The justices said by a 5-4 vote on Thursday that claims of partisan gerrymandering do not belong in federal court.

The concession was made as the House and Senate ran out of debating time prior to the July 4 recess, amid strong support from Senate Democrats for the Senate’s migration crisis funding bill. But the concession is not a permanent defeat for House Democrats, who will likely include many of their pro-migration, anti-enforcement priorities in the pending homeland security funding bill. The Senate migration crisis bill provides more than $1 billion to preserve the orderly inflow of many economic migrants into Americans’ workplaces and schools, and includes no spending to curb migration. The Senate