Democratic debates: Harris says Trump ‘tweeted the ammunition’ for El Paso shooter – live

The 10 candidates on stage in Houston offered competing visions based on Obamacare and Medicare for All

Elizabeth Warren is calling for the end of the Senate filibuster to enact gun-control legislation.

If the filibuster was done away with, it would only take 50 Senate votes to pass a bill; legislation can currently be blocked if it attracts less than 60 votes.

O’Rourke did not shy away from saying he would require citizens to turn in their military-style weapons, despite Republicans’ frequent accusations that Democrats are coming to take Americans’ guns.

“Hell yes, we’re going to take your AK-47,” O’Rourke said in one of the biggest lines of the night so far.

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Democratic debate: Biden clashes with Warren and Sanders on healthcare

‘The senator says she’s for Bernie,’ the former vice-president said of Warren’s support for Sanders’ Medicare for All plan. ‘Well, I’m for Barack’

Confrontation erupted on the debate stage as frontrunner Joe Biden verbally sparred with progressives Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders over their support for a single-payer healthcare system in an exchange that revealed the deep divisions over how far left the party should move.

Round three of the presidential debates began on Thu...