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Your support makes all the difference.The top 10 Democrats in the presidential race faced each other in yet another 2020 showdown, with Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren meeting head-to-head for the first time in the primary season.
The debate comes following a busy day in Washington, where the House Judiciary Committee approved a key resolution as it gears up towards potential impeachment of Donald Trump. The resolution has defined the boundaries of a probe that Democrats hope could lead to said impeachment, and potentially his removal from office. The move allows the committee to designate certain hearings as impeachment hearings, and empower staff to question witnesses for a longer period of time.
Mr Trump travelled to Baltimore today for a Republican fundraising event and the House Republican Conference member retreat dinner.
During the debates, Ms Warren and Mr Biden were joined by the likes of Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Beto O'Rourke, Julián Castro, Amy Klobuchar, Cory Booker, Pete Buttigieg, and Andrew Yang.
The debate saw an illustration of their differences on healthcare policy, with Ms Warren and Mr Sanders advocating for Medicare for All, while many of the others advocating for a less aggressive approach.
Mr Trump has a quiet day scheduled for Friday, meeting for an intelligence briefing in the morning, before then meeting with the secretary of Defense in the afternoon.
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Biden says he left a big time law firm, but left to become a public defender because his "state was under siege" after the assassination of MLK.
"The fact of the matter is that what's happened is that we're in a situation now where there are so many people who are in jail who shouldn't be in jail," Biden says, calling for a change in the model.
"Nobody should be in jail for a nonviolent crime," he said.
"I'm the only one who has ever beat the NRA. I'm the only one who has ever beat the NRA nationally," Biden says, referring to the Brady Bill that was passed int he 1990s.
The crowd in Texas is cheering after Biden praised O'Rourke's response to the shooting in El Paso.
Harris is making her case for executive action on gun violence, and saying she has seen a lot of autopsies.
It's a line she has used before, in a debate as well.
"Obviously he didn't pull the trigger, but he's certainly been tweeting out the ammunition," Harris says on whether Trump is responsible for the shootings we've seen lately.
O'Rourke stands by his plan to take people's guns "if it is a weapon that was designed to kill people on the battlefield."
"If the high impact high velocity round.. shreds everything in your body, because it was designed to do that" on the battlefield, O'Rourke.
"Hell yes, we're going to take your AR15, your AK47," O'Rourke says.
Klobuchar attacks Mitch McConnell, says that there are three bills on his desk that could limit gun violence in the United States.
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