Live Blog: Night One of the Second Democratic Debate

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Published July 30, 2019 at 1:50 PM HST

It's Night 1 of the July Democratic debates. Ten candidates are each making the case that they should be the next president of the United States. Follow NPR's live coverage for real-time fact checks and analysis of their remarks.

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