DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously

fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”
With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of
Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
A spotlight on the people reshaping our politics. A conversation with
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.
DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential
primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”
With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of
Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.” DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic
presidential primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren,
strenuously fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making
fanciful promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against
President Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow
their momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.
“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
A spotlight on the people reshaping our politics. A conversation with
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education. DETROIT — The leading liberals in the
Democratic presidential primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and
Elizabeth Warren, strenuously fought back on Tuesday against
accusations of making fanciful promises and imperiling the party’s
prospects against President Trump, as a group of moderate
underdogs sought to slow their momentum in the second round of
debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.
[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.
On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own
political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.
DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential
primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”
With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of
Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
A spotlight on the people reshaping our politics. A conversation with
voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
A spotlight on the people reshaping our politics. A conversation with
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.
DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential
primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”
With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of
Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.” DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic
presidential primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren,
strenuously fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making
fanciful promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against
President Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow
their momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.
“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
A spotlight on the people reshaping our politics. A conversation with
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education. DETROIT — The leading liberals in the
Democratic presidential primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and
Elizabeth Warren, strenuously fought back on Tuesday against
accusations of making fanciful promises and imperiling the party’s
prospects against President Trump, as a group of moderate
underdogs sought to slow their momentum in the second round of
debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.
[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.
On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own
political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.
DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential
primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”
With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of
Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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A spotlight on the people reshaping our politics. A conversation with
voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.
 “I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.
“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
A spotlight on the people reshaping our politics. A conversation with
voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.” DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic
presidential primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren,
strenuously fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making
fanciful promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against
President Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow
their momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.
“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education. DETROIT — The leading liberals in the
Democratic presidential primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and
Elizabeth Warren, strenuously fought back on Tuesday against
accusations of making fanciful promises and imperiling the party’s
prospects against President Trump, as a group of moderate
underdogs sought to slow their momentum in the second round of
debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.
[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.
On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own
political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.
DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential
primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”
With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of
Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.
DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential
primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”
With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of
Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.
With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over modera DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic
presidential primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren,
strenuously fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making
fanciful promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against
President Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow
their momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.
[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.
On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own
political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.
DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential
primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”
With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of
Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
A spotlight on the people reshaping our politics. A conversation with
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.” DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic
presidential primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren,
strenuously fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making
fanciful promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against
President Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow
their momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education. DETROIT — The leading liberals in the
Democratic presidential primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and
Elizabeth Warren, strenuously fought back on Tuesday against
accusations of making fanciful promises and imperiling the party’s
prospects against President Trump, as a group of moderate
underdogs sought to slow their momentum in the second round of
debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.
[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.
On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own
political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.
DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential
primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”
With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of
Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.
DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential
primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”
With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of
Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.
There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who
accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]
Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates
who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential

primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously
fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful
promises and imperiling the party’s prospects against President
Trump, as a group of moderate underdogs sought to slow their
momentum in the second round of debates.

On an evening that could have produced explosions in their own

political rivalry, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren instead formed
something of an ideological tag team to defend their shared agenda,
above all on health care. Though each is seen as the other’s chief
obstacle in the Democratic race, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren did not
at any point clash directly.

[Here are the highlights from Night 1 of the July Democratic debates.]

Instead, they battled an array of comparatively obscure candidates

who used the debate as an opportunity — and for some of them, likely
a last chance — to express alarm about their party’s embrace of
immense liberal policy goals, like the creation of a “Medicare for all”-
style health care system, Mr. Sanders’s No. 1 issue, and a broad
liberalization of the immigration system.

There was former Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who

accused Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren of making “fairy tale” promises;
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who lamented liberal “wish-list
economics”; and former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado,
imploring the left not to overreach and “FedEx the election to Donald
Trump.”
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A spotlight on the people reshaping our politics. A conversation with
voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless
news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
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Arguing in somewhat subtler terms was Senator Amy Klobuchar of

Minnesota, who declined multiple chances to lash her liberal rivals by
name but questioned the viability of their progressive stances on
health care and education.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.

“I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.
With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.
With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.
 “I have bold ideas,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “but they are grounded in
reality.”

With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.
With Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren refusing to yield an inch, the
debate laid bare the stark choice before Democratic primary voters:
whether to embrace an agenda of transformational economic change
in an effort to motivate young and nonwhite voters, or to proceed
more cautiously by embracing more incremental appeals that could
win over moderates.