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Former U.S. vice-president Joe Biden may be too aligned with the establishment for the party’s mood if he enters what’s going to be a large and varied field of Democratic 2020 presidential candidates, writes Les Whittington. The Hill Times file photograph

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

February 13, 2019

OTTAWA—There’s no NDP in the United States. But in the political fault zone of Donald Trump’s America, the parameters of acceptable debate are shifting in ways that would have seemed unimaginable only a decade ago. As the field of 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls unfolds, it seems to be...

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