Washington — The stakes could not have been higher at the Democratic presidential debate on Tuesday, with the South Carolina primary and Super Tuesday contests looming in the week ahead.

Most candidates on the stage in Charleston, South Carolina, shared a common goal: stalling Senator Bernie Sanders’s march towards the nomination. As they battled to emerge as the alternative to Sanders, the rivals appeared to have a collective sense that, for at least some of them, time was running out...

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