Days after a contentious debate that seemed to draw battle lines between many of the party's 2020 presidential candidates, Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman Tom Perez Thomas Edward PerezClinton’s top five vice presidential picks Government social programs: Triumph of hope over evidence Labor’s 'wasteful spending and mismanagement” at Workers’ Comp MORE sought to instead draw a contrast between the entire field and President Trump Donald John TrumpSteele Dossier sub-source was subject of FBI counterintelligence probe Pelosi slams Trump executive order on pre-existing conditions: It 'isn't worth the paper it's signed on' Trump 'no longer angry' at Romney because of Supreme Court stance MORE.

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"Voters will have to look at the totality of the vice president's record and every other candidate's record. The good news is the difference between us and this president is night and day on these issues of civil rights," Perez said. "The Party of Lincoln used to be the party of civil rights and the Party of Lincoln is dead. It's the Democratic Party that's fighting to make sure everybody has the opportunity to realize the American dream."

Harris hit Biden hard on Thursday over his decades-old opposition to forced busing, once one of the main tools used to desegregate schools. She pointed out she herself had benefited from the program and told Biden his statements earlier this month about working with segregationist senators were personally hurtful to her.

Biden said her statements were a distortion of his record.

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Perez on Sunday said all of the Democrats are "so far ahead of where this president is," regardless of the exchange.

Wallace pressed him to return to the issue of Biden, and Perez responded, "That will be up to the voters to decide. We have another debate in a month and they're out on the stump. What voters are going to see and the reason I'm excited about what we had last week, is I think voters saw we have a deep bench."

Perez continued with the same theme while answering questions about providing health care to those living in the U.S. illegally and the proposal to decriminalize border crossings.





"I welcome the discussion about a coherent policy and I wish the president would stop tweeting and start solving the problem," he said.