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Toward the beginning of Thursday's Democratic presidential primary debate, the seven candidates went after the current state of the economy, something the President Trump has repeatedly lauded during his presidency. Former Vice President Joe Biden said that despite the growing economy, the middle class was suffering. "The middle class is getting killed; the middle class is getting crushed," former Vice President Joe Biden argued. "The working class has no way up, as a consequence of that," he added. Biden also cited a statistic, saying that 40 percent of the farmers in the Midwest couldn't pay their bills last year. Pete...