Pete Buttigieg was on nobody's radar as a serious presidential contender until a few weeks ago. Now his competitors are scrambling to find vulnerabilities.
, Pete Buttigieg's rivals are scrambling to find vulnerabilities and lines of attack that can be used against him, five officials with opposing Democratic primary campaigns and Republican political groups tell NBC News.
— known in political parlance as"opposition research" — that could be deployed against them. Major political groups had entire books of"oppo" ready to go by the time those candidates entered the race. Biden is expected to enter formally this week.. As a millennial who has never held an office higher than mayor of a midsize town, his record is largely unexamined.
Until the last few weeks, the only group that had kept close tabs on Buttigieg and actively pushed back on him was the Indiana Republican Party. Officials said the state party took notice when Buttigieg in 2017 ran for Democratic National Committee chair, taking it as a sign that his ambitions extended beyond South Bend, population just over 100,000.
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