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Baltimore’s Newspaper Responds To Trump: ‘Better To Have A Few Rats Than Be One’
The Baltimore Sun news- paper has issued a response to President Trump’s at- tacks on the city and House Oversight Committee Chair- man Elijah Cummings (D- Md.), over parts of the lawmaker’s majority-black district that he represents.
In a series of tweets over the weekend, Trump de- scribed Baltimore and sur- rounding areas as a “rat and rodent infested mess” and a “very dangerous & filthy place” where “no human being would want to live.” He concluded by calling Cum- mings a “racist.”
“Better to have a few rats than to be one,” the Balti- more Sun’s editorial declared in its headline in response to Trump’s attack, per the Washington Post.
“We regularly mock some of the things [Trump] does, but I think to call the presi- dent of the United States a rat
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or a vermin ... that’s a new place to go,” Sun editorial writer Peter Jensen told The Washington Post. “But my gut instinct as I was writ- ing the editorial was that that was the inescapable conclu- sion.”
Democratic Candidates Go After Biden Instead Of Concentration On Trump
Former Vice President Joe Biden dominated the debate stage and weathered the at- tacks of nine opponents for the Democratic presidential nomination Wednesday night, emerging the clear winner and standing by his promise to not be “overly po- lite.”
The other candidates went after Biden political record instead of concentrating on beating President Donald Trump. It was hard to watch.
In possibly the most con- tentious Democratic primary debate thus far, frontrunners Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris of California sparred with each other and the other candidates over the issues of health care, immigration, race relations and climate change.
Following Harris’ and Biden’s heated exchange over busing to achieve school integration in the first debate, Biden was far more aggres-
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris go head-to-head on health care during presidential debate
sive than in his previous de- bate performance in respond- ing to attacks from every candidate on stage.
The former vice president delivered his message com- pellingly and convincingly. Even during his less strong moments, Biden remained the focal point of the conver- sation, speaking for over 21 minutes – more than any other candidate on stage.
On health care, in particu- lar, Biden displaying his in- depth policy knowledge while
also rebutting repeated at- tacks from Harris. Biden gave a strong defense of his pragmatic plan to strengthen ObamaCare, while the confu- sion and lack of clarity around Harris’ plan hin- dered her position.
Biden also successfully took aim at what he has called Harris’ “have it every which way approach.”
Health care “is the single most important issue facing the public,” Biden said to Harris. “To be very blunt ... you can't beat President Trump with doubletalk on this plan.”
Darkhorse candidate New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio focused his efforts on attacking Biden directly, particularly during the dis- cussions over immigration and race relations. But the at- tacks failed to create the sear- ing moment that de Blasio had hoped for and did not seem to damage Biden in any meaningful way.
On another front, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii scored points against Harris while addressing criminal justice reform and race. Gab- bard took aim at the racial implications of Harris’ tough-on-crime record as a California attorney general, leaving Harris without a re- buttal on an issue that the senator commanded during the last debate.
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