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Sen. Amy Klobuchar speaks while flanked by Sen. Bernie Sanders and businessman Tom Steyer. South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg speaks as Andrew Yang and Sen. Elizabeth Warren listen during the debate. Sen. Elizabeth Warren speaks as South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg and former Vice President Joe Biden listen. Sen. Bernie Sanders raises his hand as former Vice President Joe Biden makes a point during the debate.
Buttigieg, abandoning his usual Boy Scout mien, responded that he was the only candidate on stage who is neither a billionaire nor millionaire. He spent much of the evening giving Warren the side-eye. “This is the problem with issuing purity tests you yourself cannot pass,” Buttigieg snapped as his supporters whooped, a reference to Warren’s transfer of Senate funds — raised under generous contribution guidelines — to a presidential campaign she is waging without high-dollar events.
Others jumped in for much discussion of affluence, the fruit of the vine and other signs of conspicuous consumption, which continued until Tom Steyer — a billionaire, as it were — noted the person happiest at all the sniping was a certain well-to-do denizen of the White House.Former Vice President Joe Biden has struggled in previous outings, his performance ranging from not bad to cringe-inducing.
For the most part, his responses were crisp and on point, especially when he parried a question about his age and a suggestion President Obama, his former partner in the White House, made earlier this week that “old men” should “get out of the way” for a new generation of leaders.Moderator Tim Alberta of Politico ventured that Obama probably hadn’t run the remarks past Biden’s campaign.
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