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LOS ANGELES – Long-simmering tensions between South Bend, Ind., Mayor MORE.

But for Warren and Buttigieg, tensions that brewed for months eventually burst out into the open — the culmination of weeks of feuding over transparency that had, until Thursday, unfolded mostly through statements to the media, proxies and thinly veiled jabs.

The veteran shrugged off the comment, underscoring how important it is that Democrats use every tool they can to beat Trump in 2020. 

The battle for Iowa took center stage at the Democratic debate in Los Angeles on Thursday night as top-tier candidates collided and the long shots made their moves with only 46 days until the first-in-the-nation caucuses. Polls are pointing toward a photo finish in Iowa and momentum will matter, as South Bend, Ind., Mayor MORE.  And it’s now or never for candidates such as Sen.

The final Democratic debate of 2019 took place in Los Angeles on Thursday, with less than two months to go before the Iowa caucuses.  What were the main takeaways? Buttigieg vs. Warren was the big moment There was only one moment of real heat in a largely civil debate.   South Bend, Ind., Mayor MORE (D-Mass.) tangled at length over the influence of big-money donors. The row has been brewing for a while, with the two candidates aiming pointed comments at each other on the campaign trail.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Thursday got teary-eyed as she mentioned one of her “selfie” experiences  — something she mentioned frequently throughout the nearly three-hour Democrat debate. PBS NewsHour‘s Judy Woodruff asked the presidential candidates, in the spirit of the holiday season, if there is someone on stage who they would either ask forgiveness from or give a gift to. “I will ask for forgiveness,” Warren said, acknowledging that she can get “really worked up.” “And sometimes I get a little hot.

Former Vice President Joe Biden imitated a stuttering child during Thursday evening’s Democrat presidential primary debate. The bizarre moment occurred when it was Biden’s turn to respond to the evening’s final question: Would you give a gift or ask for forgiveness this holiday season? Biden began his response by stating that he and his wife, former second lady Jill Biden, have a “call list” ranging from 20 to 100 people whom they speak to each month. “I give them my private cell number.

The federal prosecutor probing the origins of the Russia-collusion hoax has requested “emails, call logs and other documents” from John Brennan, former President Barack Obama’s CIA director turned NBC and MSNBC contributor, the New York Times reported Thursday. Connecticut U.S. Attorney John Durham, the prosecutor charged with conducting the review into the origins of the Russia collusion probe, “wants to learn what Mr. Brennan told other officials, including the former FBI director James B.

What are the odds that Tina Fey, Lena Dunham, and Amy Poehler would all sell the exact same number of books during their debut weeks? Math has never been by strong suit, but the number has to be astronomical. Nonetheless, both Fey and Dunham sold 38,000 copies. Poehler sold 37,000. Even New York Magazine found the coincidence worthy of note: Did the Same 38,000 Women Buy These Books? The market for readers interested in the lives of funny, famous women in television has been defined and it’s 38,000.

MADISON HEIGHTS, Mich. — The kettle steamed in the background as a familiar yet painful argument began to boil over between father and daughter in the Slewo home last Inauguration Day. “My president is going to be good for the Christians and the economy,” Warda Slewo, an ardent Donald Trump fan, told his daughter, Ashourina Slewo, in her small kitchen in the northeastern suburbs of Detroit on Jan. 20, 2017. “Your president is a racist,” Ashourina shot back.

NEW LONDON, Wis.—After it was clear that neither of her preferred candidates, Ben Carson and Ted Cruz, was going to be elected president in 2016, Linda Behm prayed. Behm is an evangelical Christian and keeps a calendar filled with volunteer shifts at a thrift store and a food pantry in this small community an hour away from Green Bay. She wasn’t sure about supporting Donald J. Trump, the New York business magnate with a penchant for insults and crude behavior.

It was the debate that almost didn’t happen, the debate that almost didn’t have a single person of color on the stage, the debate that could have been overshadowed by the impeachment of the president of the United States just a day earlier. But in the end, the debate did happen.