The Roundup: Democrats stick to high road in first debate

LAS VEGAS – It was all cordiality and handshakes Tuesday during the first of six Democratic presidential debates, making it a night to bolster the campaign of frontrunner Hillary Clinton. Out of all the candidates on the debate stage, CNN gave the former secretary of state a whopping 30 minutes and 26 seconds of air time, compared with a meager 9 minutes and 2 seconds for Lincoln Chafee, the Republican senator and Democratic governor of Rhode Island. Bernie Sanders, an independent Vermont senat

LAS VEGAS – It was all cordiality and handshakes Tuesday during the first of six Democratic presidential debates, making it a night to bolster the campaign of frontrunner Hillary Clinton. Out of all the candidates on the debate stage, CNN gave the former secretary of state a whopping 30 minutes and 26 seconds of air time, compared with a meager 9 minutes and 2 seconds for Lincoln Chafee, the Republican senator and Democratic governor of Rhode Island. Bernie Sanders, an independent Vermont senat…