Today on TAP: The ‘likeability’ question descends on Elizabeth Warren
Pete Buttigieg
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Elizabeth, Bernie, Joe, and Pete
Pete Buttigieg is coming on strong, as the Wall Street Democrat heir to a faltering Joe Biden. Can he overtake Warren and Sanders in Iowa?
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The Medicare for All Cost Debate Is Extremely Dishonest
Biden and Buttigieg get to avoid the cost debate, though their own proposals, if successful, will almost surely cost as much as Sanders’s.
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The Fierce Urgency of Less
The three B’s (Biden, Bloomberg, Buttigieg) of can’t-go-big
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The Miseducation of Mean Pete
Once the Rhodes Scholar version of Mister Rogers, Buttigieg has become the snarling incarnation of anti-left rage.
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Why Presidential Campaigns Are Doling Out So Much Ice Cream
The promise and pitfalls of community-centered campaigns
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Private Equity’s Next Leveraged Buyout Might Be the Oval Office
Several candidates who have taken donor cash from private-equity barons have remained silent about the threat posed by the industry.
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Do Pete Buttigieg’s Donors Know Him Better Than We Do?
The South Bend mayor has become a darling to Silicon Valley and Wall Street elite. That alone is a red flag.
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The de Blasio Paradox
He’s enacted more groundbreaking progressive legislation than any other Democratic presidential candidate. And he’s going nowhere fast.