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What a difference a disastrous debate makes. It turns out all of it was true: the Democratic Party’s top echelons did work to make Biden the nominee, they didn’t choose him because they thought he was the strongest candidate against Trump, and they were motivated above all by the desperate, urgent need to block Sanders from the party nomination. But don’t take it from us — Democrats themselves are suddenly more than happy to tell you.