‘Elephant that doesn’t even fit in this room’: 2020 Democrats avoid dwelling on Trump

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Democrats seeking to oust President Trump in 2020 largely skirted mentions of him in a low-key debate whose most impassioned moments included Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren clashing over her claims that he said a woman can’t be elected president.

In a six-person debate in Des Moines, Iowa, less than three weeks before the state’s kickoff caucuses on Feb. 3, Warren insisted her senatorial colleague asserted in a 2018 meeting that a female candidate couldn’t claim the White House.

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