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Bernie Sanders’s Ideas Dominated the Second Debate

Joe Biden may be the front-runner, but the senator from Vermont set the terms of the conversation.
Source: John Locher / AP / Paul Spella / The Atlantic

Updated at 11:30 p.m. ET on June 27, 2019.

Joe Biden is the current front-runner of the Democratic Party. He’s leading all other primary candidates, in several polls, by double digits. And many party strategists believe that the working-class-whispering former vice president is the only candidate who can beat Donald Trump.

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