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Pete Buttigieg
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The Electability Folly
Early projections of who’s ‘electable’ have seldom been right. If you’re worried about electability, go register voters in swing states.
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Take the Money and Run
The 2020 Democratic primary has been as much about how candidates raise money as what they want to do once in office.
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If Bernie Can’t Camp Out in Iowa, Can the Berniecrats Still Deliver a Victory?
That’s one reason why the upcoming caucuses may be a dry run for the big organizing needed in November’s general election.
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The Shots Not Taken
Democrats shy from confrontation in Tuesday’s debate, but Warren may get a bounce from her not-quite-but-more-than-confrontational comeback.
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Wells Fargo Attorney Moonlights as Buttigieg Campaign Policy Adviser
The campaign has also had advisers sign nondisclosure agreements, and in at least one case attempted to lock someone up with a noncompete agreement.
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Pete’s Puerto Rico Problem
Buttigieg’s corrected list of fundraisers includes a top executive at one of the vulture fund holders of Puerto Rican debt.
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Mayor Pete vs. AOC on Religious Left Values
Rolling Stone says the religious left should welcome Pete Buttigieg’s ‘public embrace of Christianity,’ but AOC’s ‘love thy neighbor’ politics reflects the Catholic Worker roots of democratic socialism.
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A Smaller Democratic Field Actually Manages to Debate
Biden doesn’t blither; Warren defends wealth tax; what Klobuchar sees when she looks at Buttigieg.
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Buttigieg Bundler Is a Natural Gas Consultant at McKinsey
No Fossil Fuel Money Pledge organizers say the bundler’s personal contribution breaks the spirit of the pledge.