The Washington Post - 31.07.2019

BY DAN BALZ

detroit — It has been building

since the first primary debate in

Miami ended, and on Tuesday

night, it broke out into the open,

a full-scale ideological brawl

about the direction of the

Democratic Party and what it will

take to defeat President Trump in

2020.

In Miami, the presidential

candidates collectively advocated

for policies that highlighted the

party’s dramatic shift to the left,

including government-run

health care that would eliminate

private insurance, the

decriminalization of the

southern border and health care

for undocumented immigrants.

On Tuesday, the moderates in the

field pushed back.

The fault line that was exposed

between left and center now fully

defines the Democratic

nomination contest and will

continue to do so as the

candidates move through the

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BY TOLUSE OLORUNNIPA,

MATT VISER

AND AMY B WANG

detroit — Ambitious proposals

for health care, climate change

and other policies backed by lib-

eral Democratic presidential con-

tenders came in for sharp cri-

tiques from a cadre of moderate

candidates jousting for promi-

nence in the second round of

debates here Tuesday night.

Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-

Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.),

positioned at the center of the

stage at Detroit’s Fox Theatre,

faced a barrage of challenges from

other candidates vying to make a

name for themselves while push-

ing back against the party’s left-

ward shift.

Warren and Sanders are pro-

moting “bad policies” and “im-

possible promises,” said former

congressman John Delaney

(Md.), the first candidate to men-

tion them by name in what would

become a string of attacks

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Capital One hack The bank’s embrace of the

cloud for security couldn’t protect 100 million

credit card applicants’ data, accessed via a

hole in the bank’s firewall. A

Border separations In a court filing, ACLU

lawyers said nearly 1,000 migrant children

have been taken from their parents since a

stop to the practice was ordered in 2018. A

FOOD

Looks can

be deceiving

Tips for telling if fading

produce is safe. E

STYLE

Bill de Blasio

Some haven’t liked the

New York mayor seeking

a second job. C

In the news

THE NATION

A Senate bill that

passed unanimously in

one committee acknowl-

edged for the first time

the impact of climate

change on U.S. infra-

structure. A

Affluent parents in

Illinois are reportedly

transferring custody of

their children to qualify

for more college finan-

cial aid. A

The Pentagon accused

Oracle of employing

“manipulative specula-

tion” to undermine the

military’s process of

awarding a $10 billion

cloud-computing con-

tract. A

THE WORLD

In Brazil, soap operas

have joined the resis-

tance against President

Jair Bolsonaro. A

North Korea conduct-

ed its second missile

launch in a one-week

period. A

THE REGION

A fatal shooting in the

District left a security

guard without his li-

cense and a mother

looking for justice. B

In Montgomery Coun-

ty Public Schools, ab-

senteeism is above the

national average, and

more than 2,000 stu-

dents have quit in re-

cent years. B

SPORTS

Jill Ellis, who has

coached the U.S. wom-

en’s national soccer

team to two World Cup

titles, is resigning. D

BUSINESS NEWS ........................ A

COMICS ........................................ C

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LOTTERIES ................................... B

OBITUARIES ................................. B

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WORLD NEWS.............................A

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CONTENT © 2019

The Washington Post / Year 142, No. 238

BY TAYLOR TELFORD,

DAMIAN PALETTA

AND DAVID J. LYNCH

President Trump said Tuesday
that a new trade deal with China
might not come until after the
2020 election, a significant de-
parture from more than a year of
trying to exert pressure on the
world’s second-largest economy.
His comments were the latest
in rapidly evolving and some-
times contradictory strategic
shifts. Less than two months ago,
he announced that a huge crack-
down against China was immi-
nent. On Tuesday, he suggested
that further action could be more
than a year away, and everything
could change based on whether
he is reelected.
In several Twitter posts, Trump
accused China of delaying negoti-
ations, which began in earnest
last December. Even as Trump’s
chief trade advisers resumed
talks in Shanghai, the president’s
tweets suggested a deal may be
further away than it had seemed
in recent months.
“My team is negotiating with
them now, but they always
change the deal in the end to their
benefit,” Trump tweeted. “They
should probably wait out our
Election to see if we get one of the
Democrat stiffs like Sleepy Joe,”
he added, using a nickname he
has tried to assign to presidential
candidate Joe Biden.
“The problem with them wait-
ing, however, is that if & when I
win, the deal that they get will be
much tougher than what we are
negotiating now... or no deal at
all,” he tweeted.
The Dow Jones industrial aver-
age fell more than 70 points in
early trading before recovering
somewhat to end the day about 23
points lower. The Standard &
Poor’s 500-stock index and Nas-
daq also fell.
Some influential business lead-
ers are growing worried at the
lack of progress in the talks,
which the administration in May
said were on the verge of a histor-
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For Trump,

a striking

turnabout

on trade

Says China pact might

take until after 2020 vote,

blaming Beijing for delay

BY SHANE HARRIS

In January, when CIA Director

Gina Haspel and other intelli-

gence agency leaders testified be-

fore Congress that Iran was not

trying to build nuclear weapons,

President Trump ridiculed his spy

chiefs as “extremely passive and

naive” and suggested that they

“go back to school.”

But last month, as Trump and

his aides made the public case for

a military strike on Iran, which

Trump later called off, the presi-

dent trumpeted intelligence, in-

cluding video footage, that

showed Iranian forces planting

mines on oil tankers and moving

missiles around the Persian Gulf

in what officials suggested were

preparations to attack U.S. per-

sonnel.

Trump’s embrace of the very

agencies he has disdained struck

current and former officials as

consistent with his treatment of

the U.S. intelligence community

21 / 2 years into his presidency:

Trump deploys information that

supports his view of the world,

and junks and publicly demeans

what doesn’t.

Haspel, who has spent her 34-

year career at the CIA working

almost entirely undercover, now

stands as a bulwark between

Trump and the intelligence com-

munity. This week, Director of

National Intelligence Daniel

Coats, who had been the public

face of American espionage, ten-

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How to avoid Trump’s ire:

CIA chief keeps low profile

BY GREGORY S. SCHNEIDER,

MICHAEL E. RUANE

AND LAURA VOZZELLA

jamestown, va. — The racial tension at the
roots of the American experiment bubbled
over Tuesday at the place where it all started,
as the mere presence of President Trump
turned festivities marking 400 years of repre-
sentative democracy at Jamestown into a thea-
ter of protest.
Trump himself was well-behaved, sticking
largely to a recitation of history and praise for
the British settlers who formed a government
in Jamestown on July 30, 1619. It was “the
greatest accomplishment in the history of the
world, and I congratulate you — it started right
here,” he said.
But his anodyne words came with an in-
creasingly heavy baggage of racial division
that Democrats struggled to confront. Some
stayed away. Gov. Ralph Northam (D), who
carries racist baggage of his own, appeared
early, then slipped back to Richmond before
Trump arrived.
And Del. Ibraheem S. Samirah (D-Fairfax)
interrupted Trump’s speech with a brief pro-
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President’s visit roils Jamestown commemoration

CARLOS BARRIA/REUTERS

Museum employees in period garb watch as President Trump tours the James Fort replica

in Jamestown. Participants marked the Virginia General Assembly’s 400th anniversary.

In debate, moderates push back

CAMPAIGN 2020

BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES

From left, South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) join seven other candidates onstage for the

Democratic presidential debate in Detroit. Buttigieg was among those who challenged the party’s leftward turn, represented by Sanders and Warren.

Warren, Sanders are challenged on

health-care, immigration proposals

THE TAKE

Ideological divides on full display

Renewed energy

Fringe candidates

breathe oxygen into

their campaigns. A

The Fact Checker

Some candidates’

claims were

incorrect. A

The moments

Sanders pushes

health care; others

cry socialism. A

Winners and losers

Warren parries

moderates’ attacks;

format falters. A

Gina Haspel

leads an

agency that

has a volatile-

at-best

relationship

with the

president.

‘I would be inclined to cut a bit’
Former Fed officials got behind a
single interest-rate reduction. A