MERRIMACK N.H. -- In the back row of an event geared toward veterans for Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, on Thursday, a discussion broke out about one of his Democratic rivals -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts.Christine Bagley, 65, said Warren had been her top choice
MERRIMACK N.H. — In the back row of an event geared toward veterans for Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, on Thursday, a discussion broke out about one of his Democratic rivals — Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts.
Instead, after Buttigieg led the attacks on Warren over her health care plan that began in October, he is snaring her primary voters — including women of Warren’s generation like Bagley and Luddy — with a platitude-heavy message of uniting the country and restoring democracy. Buttigieg has been aided by the concept of electability, which has hung over the primary season and can disadvantage women running for office in particular. Warren’s allies, who have seen her frequently faced with questions about whether a woman can win, believe Buttigieg has been treated with kid gloves by journalists who see themselves in a 38-year-old man more than a 70-year-old woman.
But many voters in Iowa and New Hampshire don’t see a contradiction. They seem less concerned with what specifically Warren is proposing; to them, the value of her many policy proposals is that they project her competence and readiness for the Oval Office. “It’s a tight, three-way race at the top,” Warren said at a stop in Keene, New Hampshire. “We know the three of us will be dividing up most of the delegates coming out of Iowa.”“New Hampshire is New Hampshire,” he said in Merrimack. “And New Hampshire is not the kind of place to let Iowa or anybody else tell you what to do.”
Even after his performance in Iowa, those close to Warren have argued that Buttigieg’s path to the presidency dramatically narrows after New Hampshire, citing his lower standing in national polls and anemic status among nonwhite Democrats.
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