If either Elizabeth Warren or Amy Klobuchar is going to win the 2020 Democratic ...
WASHINGTON - If either Elizabeth Warren or Amy Klobuchar is going to win the 2020 Democratic U.S. presidential nomination, they will have to take down Pete Buttigieg to do it.
That threatens the political fortunes of Warren and Klobuchar, who like Buttigieg have premised their campaigns on performing well out of the gate in Iowa. Michael Ceraso, a Democratic strategist who worked for U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential bid and briefly worked for Buttigieg earlier this year, argued Warren and Klobuchar had made a tactical error.
As he has advanced in the polls, Buttigieg has increasingly drawn a contrast with those left-leaning senators, casting himself as more of a moderate in the mold of former Vice President Joe Biden, who was also on stage in Los Angeles. Warren in turn has suggested Buttigieg’s reliance on wealthy donors is symptomatic of a corrupt capitalist system she has pledged to fight as president.
The Navy veteran is finishing up his second four-year term as mayor of South Bend. He retorted that he won his mayoral re-election as “a gay dude” in conservative Indiana where Vice President Mike Pence previously served as governor.
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