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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 is defending his healthcare plan, and says that people who like their healthcare plan now "can keep it" under his plan.
Biden is going hard against Warren and Sanders on their plans. He's saying the plans they have will cost a lot of money, and they are both smirking.
Good line form Warren: "I've actually never met anybody who likes their health insurance company," before noting that some like doctors, nurses, but not the companies.
Klobuchar attacks Sanders for his "I wrote the damn bill" thing.
"While Bernie wrote the bill, I read the bill," she said.
"Let's be clear about this People will have access to all of their doctors all of their nurses their community hospitals, their rural hospitals," Warren says in response to Klobuchar claiming millions will lose health insurance over Medicare for All.
Buttigieg says that Sanders' Medicare for All bill "doesn't trust the American people", and says he trusts Americans to choose their healthcare plans.
He has a "Medicare for all who want it" plan.
"Medicare for All is comprehensive healthcare," Sanders says, responding to these attacks that people will lose health coverage with his plan.
The plan he and Warren favour is aimed at universal coverage.
Harris thanks Barack Obama for his leadership on healthcare.
She then gives credit to Sanders, and says that her Medicare for All plan allows choice of a private plan if they want.
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