Warren, Sanders spar with dark-horse candidates over Democrats' direction on health care, climate
DETROIT - Democrats showed sharp differences over single-payer health care, immigration and climate policy Tuesday as a group of lesser-known candidates tried to use the second presidential primary debate to attack progressive standard-bearers Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.
The debate highlighted the fundamental changes advocated by Sanders, a Vermont independent, and Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, who argue that defeating President Donald Trump will require bold plans.
"I don't understand why anybody goes to all the trouble of running for president of the United States to talk about what we really can't do and shouldn't fight for," Warren said after several candidates argued that she and Sanders would doom the party.
Several of their opponents argued that there was too much at stake to risk giving any advantage to Trump and that a more pragmatic approach would reach a wider swath.
"We are more worried about winning an argument than
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