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On paper, Democrats in NewJersey have rarely commanded somuch power: They control thegovernor’s office and both cham-bers of the Legislature, and a lib-eral surge last November nearlywiped congressional Republicansoff the map. Just one G.O.P. law-maker remains in the state’s 14-member delegation.

Yet the state finds itself in crisis,paralyzed by an intraparty warbetween the governor and othertop Democrats, and a legislativesession that has yielded relatively

modest results in a state that istilting more liberal.

The governor, Philip D. Murphy,and Democratic legislative lead-ers have had testy relations sincethe start of Mr. Murphy’s tenuretwo years ago, fueled in part byclashes in personalities and man-agement styles. Their differenceshave made it difficult to forgeagreements, and now a fight over

the governor’s push to tax thewealthy, among other issues,could shut down the state. Rancorover the state budget erupted intoall-out war on Wednesday, withaccusations of duplicity andtantrums.

This stands in stark contrast towhat unfolded in New York, whereDemocrats, having seized com-plete power in Albany for the firsttime in nearly a decade, pushedthrough a groundbreaking legisla-tive package, from some of thestrongest tenant protection lawsin the country to a sweeping cli-mate change plan to grantingdriver’s licenses to undocument-ed immigrants.

In New Jersey, many of the big-gest accomplishments occurredlast year during Mr. Murphy’sfirst months in office and involvedproposals that predated his arriv-al, including paid sick leave, equalpay for women, automatic voterregistration and a package of guncontrol measures.

So far this year, Mr. Murphy’smajor victory was raising the min-imum wage to $15 an hour, a corecampaign promise that New Yorkhas also adopted.

“I’m going to continue with aspirit of good will to find commonground,” Mr. Murphy said in an in-terview, but he added that he

Progressive Revolution Devolves Into a Civil WarBy NICK CORASANITI

Gov. Philip Murphy’s feud with legislators may cause a shutdown.BEBETO MATTHEWS/ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Crisis for New Jersey’sDemocratic Leaders

ARCADIA, Calif. — On themorning of March 29, Santa AnitaPark was reopening for racing forthe first time in three weeks afterthe mystifying deaths of nearlytwo dozen horses.

Satellite trucks, national newsreporters and animal rights activ-ists converged for what had be-come a macabre death watch.

But California regulators werewatching a live surveillance feedof a trainer’s assistant carrying abucket into the stall of a horsenamed Tick Tock. Moments afterthe assistant left, a white foamwas visible on the horse’s lips, of-ten a telltale sign of performance-enhancing drugs.

Investigators later found sy-ringes in the bucket, along with afatigue-fighting agent known inracing parlance as a milkshake,according to hearing transcriptsfrom the state’s Horse RacingBoard.

The news that investigators be-lieved Tick Tock had received

such a concoction — before thefirst race on the first day of thetrack’s return to racing, no less —is indicative of the dysfunctionthat has enveloped Santa Anitathe past six months, a period

when horses had to be euthanizedafter suffering fractures at analarming rate. Thirty horses havesuffered this fate since Dec. 26 atSanta Anita, a storied racetrackthat became a flash point this year

for activists who want to ban thesport altogether.

Racetracks in the United Stateshave a particular problem withhorses dying. Nearly 10 horses a

As Horses Died, Workers Pointed to a Track’s Emphasis on ProfitBy JOE DRAPE

and CORINA KNOLL

Thirty racehorses died at Santa Anita Park this season, which ran from December through Sunday.DAVID McNEW/GETTY IMAGES

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LONDON — It is not an easytask to hold Boris Johnson to ac-count. Ask John Palmer, who triedto do it 30 years ago, when theywere both reporters covering Eu-rope for British newspapers.

Mr. Johnson, now 55 and on aglide path toward becomingprime minister, was then a risingstar at The Daily Telegraph,cranking out front-page scoopsthat verged on satire, portrayingEuropean bureaucrats as absurd,overregulating control freaks.That the articles often proved tobe overblown or inaccurate didnot seem to bother him.

He was a posh eccentric out of aP. G. Wodehouse novel, absent-minded and chronically disorga-nized, fresh from studying clas-sics at Eton and Oxford. His hairprotruded from his head at sur-prising angles, and the doors ofhis red Alfa Romeo, his biogra-pher writes, were sometimes se-cured with string. Mr. Palmer, who

covered Europe for the left-lean-ing newspaper The Guardian andwas Mr. Johnson’s father’s age,tried to warn him that his distor-tions had become dangerous. Butnothing seemed to stick.

“He would say, ‘You’re taking itall too seriously, for God’s sake.Have a sense of proportion, oldboy,’” Mr. Palmer said. “He wouldsay, ‘It’s the underlying truth thatyou’re missing, the underlyingtruth.’”

His critics could do little butsmile and shrug at the phenom-enon everyone called, simply,“Boris.”

“It was thought to be a comicsideshow,” Mr. Palmer said.

It was just the beginning for Mr.Johnson, who went on to becomeone of the great escape artists ofBritish politics.

He has walked away fromgaffes, deceptions and errors that

A Gaffe-Prone ‘Lord of Misrule’Who May Soon Rule in Britain

By ELLEN BARRY

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WASHINGTON — A photo-graph of a migrant father and his23-month-old daughter lying facedown on the muddy bank of theRio Grande added an emotionalcharge on Wednesday to the im-migration policy debate consum-ing Washington.

The image of the tiny girl,tucked into her father’s shirt, herright arm draped around his neck,seemed to crystallize the humantragedy playing out at the border,and it was everywhere: on cablechannels, the internet, where theusual political warfare was for amoment tempered by sadness,and on the Senate floor, where thechamber’s top Democrat forcedcolleagues to confront a blown-upcopy of the photo.

“President Trump, I want you tolook at this photo,” said the minor-ity leader, Senator Chuck Schu-mer of New York. “These are notdrug dealers or vagrants or crimi-nals; they are people simply flee-ing a horrible situation.”

But the picture did little to nar-row the partisan divide over im-migration policy, or even a moreimmediate dispute in Congressover a package of humanitarian

aid that Mr. Trump has requestedto fund strapped immigrationagencies dealing with a crush ofmigrants.

The Senate on Wednesdayoverwhelmingly passed a $4.6 bil-lion emergency spending packageto address the crisis, but only afterrejecting a House-passed versiondrafted by Democrats deeply op-posed to the president’s immigra-tion agenda, which included manyrestrictions on how the moneycould be spent.

The House, in turn, planned totake action on Thursday to insistthat some of its conditions of thefunding be upheld. That set up astalemate over the funding, andDemocrats’ insistence that theWhite House bow to new restric-tions on its authority to secure it.

The photo of the migrant father,Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez,and his daughter Valeria came ata time of mounting concern about

Indelible Photo Impassions TalksBut Can’t Spur a Border Aid Deal

By MICHAEL D. SHEAR and JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS

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MIAMI — Democratic presi-dential candidates leveled a starkcritique of President Trump’s im-migration policies and the condi-tion of the American workingclass in the first primary debateon Wednesday, but split in unmis-takable terms over just how ag-gressively the next presidentshould seek to transform thecountry along more liberal lines.

The strength of the party’s pro-gressive wing was on vivid dis-play in South Florida, starting inthe first minutes of the debatewhen Senator Elizabeth Warrenof Massachusetts branded the fed-eral government as thoroughlycorrupt. Ms. Warren, the highest-polling candidate onstage, calledfor the government to bring toheel oil companies and pharma-ceutical companies, and em-braced the replacement of privatehealth insurance with single-pay-er care.

“We need to make structuralchange in our government, in oureconomy and in our country,” Ms.Warren said, setting the tone forthe handful of populists in the de-bate.

Joining Ms. Warren in drivinghard from the left were two lesser-known candidates — Julián Cas-tro, the former housing secretary,and Mayor Bill de Blasio of NewYork — who sought to jump-starttheir campaigns by confronting ri-vals who hesitated to match theirprogressive demands on immi-gration, health care and nationalsecurity policy.

The debate, the first of two fea-turing 10 candidates each, under-scored just how sharply Demo-crats have veered in a liberal di-rection since Mr. Trump’s election.On issues ranging from immigra-tion and health care to gun controland foreign policy, they demon-strated that they were far moreuneasy about being perceived asinsufficiently progressive by pri-mary voters than about invitingRepublican attacks in the generalelection.

But there were also severalavowed pragmatists who voicedhesitation or outright disagree-

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THEME OF FIRST DEBATE

Progressive Solutions vs.Caution on Economy

and Immigration

By JONATHAN MARTIN and ALEXANDER BURNS

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The 10 Democratic presidential candidates who debated on Wednesday night in Miami. Many of them said President Trump’s economic policies favored the wealthy.DOUG MILLS/THE NEW YORK TIMES

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