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Democrats whack Trump in second debate | TheHill

posted onJune 28, 2019
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Article snippet: Democratic presidential candidates wasted little time during the second night of the first 2020 primary debates going on the attack against MORE, a stark difference from the night before. Front-runners former Vice President MORE (I-Vt.) targeted Trump in early statements, while other candidates sharply criticized the president's tax cut bill and his immigration policies. "Donald Trump thinks Wall Street built America. Ordinary, middle-class Americans built America," Biden said in fielding his first question of the evening. Biden added that Trump "put us in a horrible situation" with worsening income inequality, and later used his closing statement to chastise Trump over his handling of a 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Sanders, a self-identified democratic socialist who has pushed progressive policies including "Medicare for All," was asked whether he believed his nomination would lead to Trump's reelection as some detractors have argued. He noted that some recent polls show him leading Trump in a hypothetical match-up "because the American people understand that Trump is a phony, that Trump is a pathological liar and a racist, and that he lied to the American people during his campaign." Sen. MORE (D-Colo.) up to take direct aim at the president. "We have to restore our democracy at home," he said. "The rest of the world is looking for us for leadership. We have a president who doesn’t believe in the rule of law, he doesn’t believe in ... Link to the full article to read more

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