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Monday Sunrise Briefing: Biden rebounds and Turkey's war in Syria

The field of moderate Democratic presidential candidates narrowed this weekend, as former Vice President Joe Biden decisively won the South Carolina primary. Billionaire Tom Steyer dropped out of the race Saturday, and on Sunday the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, Pete Buttigieg, followed suit. 

“Politics at its worst is ugly,” Mr. Buttigieg said Sunday night. “But at its best, politics can lift us up. It is not just policymaking. It is moral. It is soulcraft."

The race now focuses on the 14 states from Maine to California that vote on Super Tuesday in what increasingly looks like a match-up between the moderate and progressive wings of the Democratic

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