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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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Buttigieg says that the leader of the US needs to believe in public education.
"I believe in public education," he says.
"I think I'm the only person on this stage who has been a public school teacher," Warren says when asked if she is simply "jumping into bed" with teachers unions, as Yang said.
She reiterates her promise to make the secretary of Education a person who has been a public school teacher.
One of the biggest applause lines of the night just came after Warren reiterated her promise to cancel student loan debt for most Americans.
Harris calling for more diversity in the public education system, saying that black children who have black teachers while they are young are more likely to go to college.
Sanders says "we are the wealthiest country in the history of the world", but contrasts that with the problems in the US. He says that teachers in the US need to make at least $60,000 a year.
"We are going to cancel all student debt in this country. And we are going to do that by imposing a tax on Wall Street speculation," Sanders says.
When asked about resiliency, Biden was interrupted by protesters who derailed the debates for a moment.
It is unclear what they were yelling there in Houston.
Asked about resilience, Biden talks about the death of his wife Neilia and daughter Naomi in a car crash in 1972, and the death of his son Beau of brain cancer in 2015.
Cory Booker recounts taking on the "political machine" in Newark, New Jersey, in 2002 and having his tyres slashed and his phone tapped - and losing the election. But he won next time around. He quotes an old African saying: If you want to go fast, go alone - if you want to go far, go together.
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