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The Loudest Debate Yet

Days before two race-defining contests, the seven Democrats seemed worried about what’s next.
Source: Patrick Semansky / AP

Well, that was loud.

The seven Democrats vying for the party’s presidential nomination shouted their way through the 10th debate tonight in Charleston, South Carolina, ahead of Saturday’s primary. They interrupted one another, bickered with one another, and bitterly accused one another of all manner of political and moral failings.

“I’m not out of time!” former Vice President Joe Biden snapped at one particularly chaotic moment. Like , last summer, the words might have carried a double

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