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Mar 2020
23m 18s

America’s former vice president is back ...

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After a disastrous start to the Democratic primaries, former vice president, Joe Biden, completed one of the most dramatic political turnarounds in recent memory. It’s now a two-man race with Senator, Bernie Sanders, for the Democratic nomination to take on Donald Trump in the November presidential election. Plus, learn the phrasal verb to “write off.”

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