Despite the fiasco of Iowa caucuses, the Democratic presidential nomination contest in November delivered its first lessons. If the local authorities of the Democratic Party were unable to produce certified results, after the election on February 3, Pete Buttigieg created the surprise by making equal play with the dean Bernie Sanders, already candidate in 2016. The 30-year-old was able to verify that 'He was now one of the favorites during a debate organized in New Hampshire on Friday February 7 by the ABC chain, four days before the primaries which will already be decisive for some of the candidates.
Pete Buttigieg spent an evening at the front, attacked on both his left and his right. Joe Biden was the first to open hostilities two days after a poor performance in Iowa, where he finished fourth, far behind the young candidate. "I have great respect for Mayor Pete (Buttigieg, former mayor of South Bend) and its services rendered to the nation ", he had assured, in an allusion to the passage of the latter under the flags. “But I think it is a risk for this party, to be honest with you, to appoint someone who has never held a position higher than that of mayor of a city of 100,000 inhabitants in the Indiana " he said during a public meeting in New Hampshire.
The inexperienced attack was repeated on Friday by the former vice-president to prevent his thirty-nine-year-old son from settling in as the center’s candidate. He was seconded, for the same reasons, by Senator Amy Klobuchar (Minnesota), always solid during the debates, protected despite herself by a mediocre result in Iowa, which for the moment does not threaten anyone .
The generational card
Facing them, Mr. Buttigieg played the generational card that succeeded him on February 3, betting on the unpopularity of Washington and his political staff, pleading for "Leave politics of the past in the past, turn the page and bring change to Washington". The senator denounced a posture, "Because it's popular to say that and it makes you look like a cool newcomer." "I don't think that's what people want right now. We have a newcomer to the White House and look where it got us, " she added.
Busy in parrying the blows, Pete Buttigieg has hardly been on the offensive. As his road passes through a collapse of Joe Biden, he was careful to defend the former vice president when he was asked if he would constitute a danger if appointed, due to the attacks of Donald Trump against him and his son Hunter. The latter was questioned by the tenant of the White House because of his past presence on the board of directors of a Ukrainian gas company.
