Democratic debate: Protesters interrupt Joe Biden during his closing segment
10 presidential hopefuls took to the stage in Houston
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Your support makes all the difference.The leading 10 candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination took to the debating stage, bringing heavyweights in the field Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders all on to the same stage for the first time.
The presidential hopefuls tackled healthcare, gun control, education and more, with several heated clashes between the rivals.
In the last section of the debate, former Vice President Biden was interrupted when he went to answer a question about his “most significant professional setback”.
Although it was unclear what the protest was about, people in the hall have said the demonstrators chanted: “We are DACA recipients. Our lives are at risk.”
Earlier in the debate Mr Biden had been questioned about deportations under the Barack Obama administration, a question which he deftly dodged.
He came under particular fire from Julian Castro, both over who could claim the mantle of being the true successor to Barack Obama and, controversially, over Mr Biden's memory.
Beto O'Rourke focused on gun violence and said he would institute a mandatory buyback scheme for assault rifles, saying: "Hell yes, we are going to take your AR-15s."
Tonight’s candidates were: Mr Biden, Ms Warren, Mr Sanders Cory Booker, Pete Buttigieg, Julian Castro, Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar, Beto O’Rourke, and Andrew Yang.
Catch-up on events as they happened below.
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Buttigieg says that the leader of the US needs to believe in public education.
"I believe in public education," he says.
"I think I'm the only person on this stage who has been a public school teacher," Warren says when asked if she is simply "jumping into bed" with teachers unions, as Yang said.
She reiterates her promise to make the secretary of Education a person who has been a public school teacher.
One of the biggest applause lines of the night just came after Warren reiterated her promise to cancel student loan debt for most Americans.
Harris calling for more diversity in the public education system, saying that black children who have black teachers while they are young are more likely to go to college.
Sanders says "we are the wealthiest country in the history of the world", but contrasts that with the problems in the US. He says that teachers in the US need to make at least $60,000 a year.
"We are going to cancel all student debt in this country. And we are going to do that by imposing a tax on Wall Street speculation," Sanders says.
When asked about resiliency, Biden was interrupted by protesters who derailed the debates for a moment.
It is unclear what they were yelling there in Houston.
Asked about resilience, Biden talks about the death of his wife Neilia and daughter Naomi in a car crash in 1972, and the death of his son Beau of brain cancer in 2015.
Cory Booker recounts taking on the "political machine" in Newark, New Jersey, in 2002 and having his tyres slashed and his phone tapped - and losing the election. But he won next time around. He quotes an old African saying: If you want to go fast, go alone - if you want to go far, go together.
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