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    Biden takes fire from all sides in Democratic debate

    by Evan Halper, Seema Mehta and Janet Hook, Los Angeles Times Aug 01, 2019 6 minutes

    DETROIT - The attacks on front-runner Joe Biden were unrelenting and, at times, personal in a contentious Democratic debate Wednesday night during which the former vice president delivered feisty retorts as he sought to persuade voters that he is not an Obama-era relic, but the politician to revive the party.

    The star progressives sharing the stage with the more moderate Biden on Wednesday - California Sen. Kamala Harris and New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker - tangled with him on issues not just of policy, but of identity politics, as the two black lawmakers compete with the former vice president for black voters, whose support is crucial to winning the nomination.

    "There are people right now in prison for life for drug offense because you stood up and used that tough on crime rhetoric that got a lot of people elected but destroyed communities like mine," Booker said to Biden when the debate turned to mass incarceration.

    Mr. Vice President has said that, since the 1970s, every major crime bill - every crime bill, major and minor, has had

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