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The Battle for Obama’s Legacy

A scrap over who deserves credit for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was the prickliest exchange yet between two top Democratic rivals, Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren.
Source: Shannon Stapleton / Reuters

Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren both want to be the 2020 Democratic nominee. But first, they want some credit.

The top rivals in this year’s primary got into their most prickly exchange of the race yet at tonight’s debate in Ohio, bickering over who was most responsible for a key element of former President

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