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    News Analysis: Debate highlights Democrats' diversity, but also their fraught divisions on race

    by David Lauter, Los Angeles Times Aug 01, 2019 3 minutes

    WASHINGTON - Sandwiched between a heated but often disjointed argument over health care and an inconclusive discussion of climate change, 10 Democratic candidates for president grappled Wednesday evening with race - their party's greatest potential source of strength and also its most fraught division.

    Never in the history of major-party presidential debates has so diverse a group of candidates appeared on a presidential debate stage: three women and five people of color, including a Latino former Cabinet member and two black U.S. senators.

    That lineup showed the face of the Democrats' multiracial and

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