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.
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The protesters who interrupted Joe Biden earlier were reportedly shouting: "We are DACA recipients. Our lives are at risk!"
And that brings the third Democratic debate to an end - stay tuned for analysis on who the big winners, and the big losers, were on the night.
It was the first time the 10 main contenders had faced off on stage together, meaning we were almost certainly seeing the eventual Democrat challenger to Donald Trump - and it was often an intense and bad-tempered affair. But who came out best? Clark Mindock gives the contenders the once-over:
One issue grabbing attention had only a tangential link to the debate itself - an attack ad running in the commercial slots targeting Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. While she's used to being a target of conservative attacks, the latest one is particularly shocking.
The advert - apparently released by a group called New Faces GOP - shows a picture of AOC on fire against footage of blindfolded skulls. The implication is that the Democratic congresswoman's avowed socialism and policies like the Green New Deal and universal healthcare will lead inevitably to scenes akin to the killing fields created by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia in the 1970s.
Clark Mindock has the story:
Joe Biden was at the centre of the most intense clashes tonight, but he probably did enough to keep his frontrunner status, says Andrew Buncombe, who was inside Texas Southern University to watch events unfold.
While the Democrats slugged it out in Texas, Donald Trump was giving a speech to a dinner of Republican supporters in Baltimore, a city he recently described as a "disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess" where "no human being would want to live" - not a slogan the city's tourist board is likely to adopt any time soon.
In a rambling 68-minute speech, he boasted about slashing regulations - including the Waters of the United States legislation that protected America's waterways from pollution - said his tax cuts had saved the average family $3,000 a year, and once again tried to take credit for Barack Obama's Veterans Care Act, one of the few of his predecessor's policies he seems to approve of.
He also managed to mispronounce his vice-president's name:
President Trump's vermin-evoking assessment of Baltimore was not lost on protesters awaiting his arrival:
In one of the more bizarre moments of the night, Joe Biden suggested parents should play records for their children to help them at school school.
The former vice president said: "Play the radio, make sure the television - excuse me, make sure you have the record player on at night, the phone - make sure that kids hear words, a kid coming from a very poor school, a very poor background will hear 4 million words fewer spoken by the time they get there."
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