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‘I Don’t Believe the Administration on Anything’: Ilhan Omar on Debt, the Debates, and the Awful Border Bill

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Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota has only been in Congress for fewer than six months, but already, she’s made one of the biggest splashes in a high-profile freshman class.

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Kamala Harris just changed the direction of the presidential race | Cliff Albright

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In several commanding moments, she distinguished herself from her rivals and positioned herself to lead the fight against Trump

As the second round of Democratic presidential debates approached, one of the major questions on the minds of voters and political commentators was whether the candidates would focus on trying to differentiate themselves from each other, as was done the previous night, or whether they would focus on critiquing Donald Trump.

Senator Kamala Harris chose to do both, and she did so effectively, in what turned out to be the breakout performance of the evening.

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No country for old white men: Kamala Harris leads changing of the guard

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The Democratic debates’ standouts have been Booker, Buttigieg, Castro, Harris and Warren – none a straight male Caucasian – while Joe Biden looked like this year’s Jeb Bush

It was as if “Sleepy Joe” Biden had been jolted awake and found himself in a terrifying parallel universe.

No longer was he the former senator and vice-president who once lunched weekly with Barack Obama at the White House. Instead he was the accused, standing in the dock under the hot lights on a debate stage in Miami, as a fierce and formidable prosecutor tore into his record on race.

The inquisitor was Senator Kamala Harris, ablack and Asian American former prosecutor and California attorney general and who has shown a rare talent for making Jeff Sessions and other ageing white men in power squirm. Harris was surely the stand-out performer of the second in a pair of primary debates this week where the world could see a generational shift in the Democratic party happening before its eyes.

Related: ‘Nobody works harder’: insiders recall Kamala Harris’s meteoric rise

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