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It’s Friday and the nation has made it through the first series of Democratic presidential debates.

You can read The Times’s extensive coverage here, including live analysis, transcripts, and snapshots of the policies and priorities of each of the 20(!) candidates who made it to the two debate stages.

Wednesday night was, as my colleagues on the politics team reported, pretty polite.

Thursday night’s debate — which included Senator Kamala Harris and Representative Eric Swalwell, the two Golden State candidates in the race — started out similarly. Then things ramped up.

In the most dramatic moment of the night, Ms. Harris answered any question about who would take on the top-polling Joseph R. Biden Jr.