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Pete Buttigieg Moves to the Center at Joe Biden’s Expense

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Progressives have been giving South Bend, IN Mayor Pete Buttigieg the stink eye since he threw his hat in the ring  as a  2020 Democratic presidential candidate.

It began with interrogations into his consulting past with McKinsey and was loudly thumped when in stark contrast to Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, who took pledges to refute big campaign and corporate donors, Buttigieg did the opposite.

But with the field thinning and Buttigieg routinely polling among  the top 4 contenders going into the Iowa caucus it’s clear that he’s set his sights not on Sanders or Warren but on former Vice-President Joe Biden.

According to the New York Times, “Buttigieg began his campaign in obscurity, staking out progressive positions. As his standing rises, he has moved toward the center, hoping to draw support away from Joe Biden.”

“In February, Pete Buttigieg, then a virtually unknown presidential candidate, praised the Green New Deal as “the right beginning.” In June he called for decriminalizing illegal border crossings. A month later he dismissed criticisms of raising middle class taxes to pay for expanded health care, calling it “a distinction without a difference.”

By October, however, Mr. Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., had moved toward the center on all three issues. He has a climate-focused TV ad in which he says, “I believe that we need to have a plan that works for all of us.” The border crossings issue, he told CNN last week, is “the kind of stuff that gets us trapped.” And he’s a month into an attack on Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts for not explaining how she’d pay for an overhaul of health care.”

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