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7 Questions Ahead Of The Next Democratic Primary Debate

The last couple of weeks have been dominated by the congressional impeachment inquiry into President Trump. But Democratic presidential candidates will take center stage again this week.

The focus of the last two weeks has been President Trump and the congressional impeachment inquiry. But next week, Democrats running for president will take center stage again.

A dozen candidates, the most so far on one stage, will gather Tuesday for the fourth primary debate in Westerville, Ohio, at Otterbein University sponsored by CNN and the New York Times. The debate will also be simulcast on local NPR stations.

With less than four months until the first votes are cast, the scrutiny is going to become sharper, and there are lots of questions facing the candidates as they head into primary crunch time:

1. Do any of the candidates go after Joe and Hunter Biden?

There is no evidence to the conspiracies (that

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