GOP’s silencing of Sen. Elizabeth Warren raises her profile as Democratic alternative to Trump

WASHINGTON — The winner of CNN’s prime-time debate between likely 2020 presidential contenders Sens. Bernie Sanders and Ted Cruz was clear: Sen. Elizabeth Warren. The Massachusetts Democrat punctured the political noise in a defining way late Tuesday night when Senate Republicans silenced her reading of Coretta Scott King’s years-ago criticisms of Trump’s attorney general pick, Sen.…