Dems Go After Buttigieg In Final Hours Before New Hampshire Primary | Talking Points Memo

Most of the polling ahead of Tuesday’s New Hampshire’s Democratic presidential primary shows Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in the lead — but you might not know it, listening to the other candidates in recent days.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1290294

It’s too bad Buttigieg is taking billions in money and cocaine from Ukrainian oligarchs to fuel his campaign.

Details soon…

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Disingenuous arguments, given that billionaires are subject to the same contribution limits as the rest of us.

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Doctor’s in Russia are working to get the rictus grin off of Putin’s face.

Putin feels it’s a Tell so early in his game…

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It’s no secret that I like Buttigieg.

In a weird way I welcome these attacks, because I want to see if Pete has it in him to respond to the incoming fire.

ETA: It’s also no secret that @rockitttla does not like Buttigieg :slightly_smiling_face:

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Zuckerberg offers to host a fundraiser with his contacts at his home and your neighbor offers the same. Who gets to shape the candidates policies?

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With hours to go before New Hampshire votes, the Democratic Socialist, who’s relied heavily (and successfully) on small-dollar fundraising, repeated his most straightforward line of attack against one of his more natural political foils.

“Our views are different,” the Vermont senator said Sunday. “Pete has raised campaign contributions from over 40 billionaires.”

i hate this timeline.

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Different things. They’re not talking about fundraisers here, they’re just saying that he’s had campaign contributions from them.

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I dunno…when you get down to it…

It seems to me that Biden would be the best nominee for getting most diverse votes in the general and far better chance of Dems winning most of the vulnerable R Senate seats.

Sanders nomination makes that all go away. If he gets the nom, that just lets those vulnerable Senate Rs take a huge sigh of relief.

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Bernie needs to attack the billionaires because of the policies they force upon the candidates, not simply because they are billionaires. Everyone wants to be a billionaire, so just dumping on all billionaires is not effective, imo. It just draws focus to the Bernie socialist problem.

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Not happy with this stuff but, I never was.

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I thought everyone wants to be able to dunk a basketball?

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Difference w/o a distinction. How do you think 40 billionaires even learned Pete’s name? Did they all take a road trip through South Bend while he was mayor?

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The advisors hired to help with policy ideas, that’s who.

Being rich doesn’t equal having access to the candidate’s policy shop—unless the candidate is a Republican.

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Or hit a Major League Home Run!

If only it were so.

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Maybe they saw him on Morning Joe a year ago like I did.

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Prove that it isn’t.

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“…a recent comment from Buttigieg that he was ‘exhausted by the current state of politics,’ which he said made him want to ‘switch it off and just watch cartoons or something’.”

:no_mouth:

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Baseball is soooooo 1960s.

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