Former Vice President Joe Biden&#8217;s once-solid double-digit lead over the rest of the field of 2020 Democratic Party presidential nominees shrunk, over the past couple of months, before generally re-expanding over the past few weeks. <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/2020_democratic_presidential_nomination-6730.html">Biden currently stands 6.0% above second-place Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)</a> in the average of recent national polling. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) round out the top five in most recent national polling. Increasingly, the field appears to be shaping up as a three-horse race among Biden, Warren, and Sanders, although Buttigieg has recently been surging in Iowa.
Biden&#8217;s once-formidable lead has narrowed since its high watermark in May, although it has since grown back substantially from a recent nadir of less than 1%. Warren has generally emerged over the past few months as a frontrunner, although her national polling has taken a bit of a drop over the past few weeks. Warren and Sanders seem to be competing for a very similar voting demographic, and it is interesting to ponder the possibility of how one candidate would likely be substantially elevated were the other to drop out and endorse the other. Some polling data suggests that Sanders hypothetically dropping out would help Warren more than it would help Biden. But Sanders may be <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/10/16/bernie-sanders-isnt-going-anywhere-anytime-soon/">in this for the long haul</a>, after all.
Electoral prediction market website <a href="https://www.predictit.org/markets/detail/3633/Who-will-win-the-2020-Democratic-presidential-nomination">PredictIt</a> still pegs Warren as the favorite to win the presidential nomination over Biden — with Buttigieg, Sanders, and entrepreneur Andrew Yang following. But while PredictIt showed Warren with a huge lead recently, her lead has over Biden has substantially narrowed, of late. It is likely that many of these bettors are skittish about Biden&#8217;s age and perceived substantive centrism — with the latter especially worrisome among a Democratic Party base that is increasingly brazen and unabashed in its promotion of ardent, full-spectrum leftism. But to the extent Warren is any frontrunner at all, she remains an extraordinarily weak frontrunner who only seems to be getting weaker still.
The <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/2020_democratic_presidential_nomination-6730.html">RealClearPolitics</a> polling average for 10/8/19 – 11/05/19 shows Biden with an average national polling lead of 6.0%.
A recent <a href="https://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_uploads/document/cseozthmrp/econTabReport.pdf">Economist/YouGov</a> national poll conducted from 11/03/19 – 11/05/19 showed Biden, at 26%, with a one-point lead over Warren. Warren was up 11 points on Sanders and no one else polled in double digits.
A recent <a href="https://www.monmouth.edu/polling-institute/reports/monmouthpoll_US_110619/">Monmouth</a> national poll conducted from 10/30/19 – 11/03/19 showed Biden and Warren tied at 23%. They were each up three points on Sanders and no one else polled in double digits.
A recent <a href="https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/469490-poll-biden-support-hits-record-low-of-26-percent">Hill/HarrisX</a> national poll conducted from 11/01/19 – 11/02/19 showed Biden, at 26%, with an 11-point lead over Warren. Warren was up one point on Sanders and no one else polled in double digits.
A recent <a href="https://morningconsult.com/2020-democratic-primary-2-2/">Politico/Morning Consult</a> national poll conducted from 10/28/19 – 11/03/19 showed Biden, at 32%, with a 12-point lead over both Warren and Sanders. No one else polled in double digits.
A recent <a href="https://harvardharrispoll.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/HHP_October19_Topline_RegisteredVoters.pdf">Harvard-Harris</a> national poll conducted from 10/29/19 – 10/31/19 showed Biden, at 33%, with a 15-point lead over Sanders. Sanders was up three points on Warren and no one else polled in double digits.
A recent <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6538104-19433-NBCWSJ-Late-October-Poll.html">NBC News/Wall Street Journal</a> national poll conducted from 10/27/19 – 10/30/19 showed Biden, at 27%, with a four-point lead over Warren. Warren was up four points on Sanders and no one else polled in double digits.
A recent <a href="https://www.langerresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/1208a32020Democrats.pdf">ABC News/Washington Post</a> national poll conducted from 10/27/19 – 10/30/19 showed Biden, at 28%, with a five-point lead over Warren. Warren was up six points on Sanders and no one else polled in double digits.
A recent <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fox-news-poll-biden-leads-nomination-race-tops-trump-by-12-points-in-matchup">Fox News</a> national poll conducted from 10/27/19 – 10/30/19 showed Biden, at 31%, with a ten-point lead over Warren. Warren was up two points on Sanders and no one else polled in double digits.
A recent <a href="https://www.investors.com/news/joe-biden-leads-elizabeth-warren-both-beat-trump-2020-election-ibd-tipp/">IBD/TIPP</a> national poll conducted from 10/24/19 – 10/31/19 showed Biden, at 29%, with a six-point lead over Warren. Warren was up ten points on Sanders and no one else polled in double digits.
Will Warren and Biden remain the two frontrunners? Will Buttigieg or Yang catch more traction? Stay tuned.
Latest Aggregate Early State-By-State Polling Data
Iowa: Warren 21.8%, Buttigieg 17.5%, Sanders 15.8%, Biden 15.5%, Klobuchar 4.0%
New Hampshire: Warren 19.7%, Biden 19.7%, Sanders 19.0%, Buttigieg 11.3%, Gabbard 4.0%
Nevada: Biden 26.0%, Warren 19.5%, Sanders 18.5%, Buttigieg 4.8%, Harris 4.3%
South Carolina: Biden 35.0%, Warren 15.5%, Sanders 12.8%, Harris 7.0%, Steyer 4.5%
This article has been updated to reflect the most recent survey data.

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Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) suggested on Sunday morning that if she had the same level of experience as her primary rival, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, she would not have enough support to even qualify for the Democratic National Committee&#8217;s (DNC) presidential debates.
&#8220;Of women on that [debate] stage &#8212; I&#8217;m focusing here on my fellow women senators, [Sens.] Kamala Harris (D-CA) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)] and myself &#8212; do I think we would be standing on that stage if we had the experience that he had?&#8221; Klobuchar asked CNN&#8217;s Jake Tapper during an appearance on &#8220;State of the Union.&#8221; &#8220;No, I don&#8217;t. Maybe we&#8217;re held to a different standard.&#8221;
The Minnesota lawmaker&#8217;s remarks were in response to two recent polls that show the moderate vote is breaking in favor of Buttigieg. Both Klobuchar and Buttigieg are vying for the moderate lane for the Democratic nomination to the presidency, and they both represent constituents from the midwest, an important demographic going into the 2020 election cycle.
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“Of the women on the stage… do I think we would be standing on that stage if we had the experience that [Mayor Pete Buttigieg] had? No, I don’t. Maybe we’re held to a different standard.” &#8211; Sen. Amy Klobuchar on Mayor Buttigieg’s qualifications. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CNNSOTU?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CNNSOTU</a> <a href="https://t.co/HHvUIK2Z6K">pic.twitter.com/HHvUIK2Z6K</a>
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While Klobuchar put forth that she believes Buttigieg is more qualified to be in the Oval Office than President Donald Trump, she explained to Tapper that her experience in public office makes her significantly more qualified to do the job than the South Bend mayor.
&#8220;I&#8217;m the one from the midwest that has actually won in a statewide race over and over again including bringing in those voters that just voted in Kentucky &#8212; those kind of voters &#8212; just voted in Virginia,&#8221; Klobuchar said. &#8220;Brought them over the edge so that he with had strong leaders that were able to win those elections. Those are the kind of voters I&#8217;ve won and that is not true of Mayor Pete. That is just a fact.&#8221;
Accordingly, Klobuchar won re-election to her U.S. Senate seat in the state of Minnesota for a third time in November 2018. She found an easy path to victory, besting her Republican challenger by more than 20 points. While Trump lost Minnesota by roughly 1.5 percent during the 2016 presidential election, the two politicians seemingly appeal to the same type of voters: middle class voters and blue collar workers.
&#8220;I also am someone that has passed multiple bills as a lead Democrat, important bills in Washington, D.C. He&#8217;s had a different experience,&#8221; Klobuchar said. &#8220;We should be able to have those debates about candidates without being accused of being negative.&#8221;
The three-term senator enjoyed a surge of attention and fundraising in the wake of her performance in last month&#8217;s debate in Ohio. While appearing on the debate stage, Klobuchar clashed with her progressive rivals and publicly criticized their signature policy plan, Medicare for All. She notably attacked Warren for not being forthcoming with the American people and failing to admit that she would likely have to raise taxes on the middle class in order to help fund her sweeping proposal.
In the 24 hours following the debate, Klobuchar&#8217;s campaign announced that it had generated $1.1 million in donations, making it her campaign&#8217;s best day of online fundraising. The money is a significant haul for Klobuchar, who reported $4.8 million in third quarter donations and just $3.9 million in second quarter donations.
Klobuchar subsequently qualified for the DNC&#8217;s fifth primary debate in November.
As of publication, Klobuchar sits at just under 3% support among Democratic primary voters nationwide according to the Real Clear Politics National polling average. She hit 5% support for the first time in late October.

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Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) disputed House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) on Monday after he contended a day earlier that some of his constituents are having trouble supporting a presidential candidate who is gay.
During a Sunday morning appearance on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of Union,&#8221; Clyburn was asked whether South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg&#8217;s struggle to gain traction with African-American voters in South Carolina has anything to do with his sexuality.
&#8220;Yes, it is. There&#8217;s no question about that,&#8221; the South Carolina lawmaker responded. &#8220;I&#8217;m not going to sit here and tell you otherwise because I think everybody knows that&#8217;s an issue. But I&#8217;m saying, it&#8217;s an issue not the way it used to be.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m never going to buy into that trope and I think it&#8217;s a trope that&#8217;s evolved among some Democrats to suggest that African Americans are homophobic or that there&#8217;s transphobia in the black community as a community &#8212; that&#8217;s just nonsense,&#8221; Harris replied. &#8220;I&#8217;m not saying that about Representative Clyburn, who I respect a lot. I&#8217;m talking about a trope that has developed among some. And the reality is that sadly, and unfortunately, in all communities bias occurs and in particular homophobia and transphobia.&#8221;
&#8220;To label one community in particular as being burdened by this bias as compared to others is misinformed,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;It&#8217;s misdirected and it&#8217;s just simply wrong.&#8221;
Buttigieg has been gaining momentum nationally, but still failing to gain traction with African American voters, which is most evident by his low polling numbers throughout South Carolina. In the <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-primaries/democratic/south-carolina/">most recent poll</a> coming out of the Palmetto State, Buttigieg received only 3% support, putting him in sixth place behind lower tier candidates like Harris and financier Tom Steyer.
Harris&#8217; remarks come as she has been suggesting that the ability for Americans to elect her as president of the United States may ultimately be hindered by her race and her gender, not her politics or personality. Only a week earlier, the California lawmaker put forth that the &#8220;elephant in the room about her campaign&#8221; is her electability, which she argued &#8220;is America ready for a woman, and a woman of color, to be president of the United States?&#8221;
However, polling has not shown neither race nor her gender to be a significant factor in Democrats&#8217; electability during the 2020 election.
Harris&#8217; campaign, which has been described recently as hemorrhaging cash, has been dramatically restructuring its staff nationwide, including both layoffs as well as redeployments. It has not only been struggling to gain momentum, but it has been noticeably slipping in the polls.
After months of stagnant fundraising and steadily declining poll numbers, she slid from the frontrunner in her home state of California to not even placing as one of the top three candidates that Californians prefer. Her campaign has also pivoted to focus on winning Iowa, yet slipped into sixth place in the latest poll coming out of the Hawkeye state.
As of publication, Harris sits at just under 5% support among Democratic primary voters nationwide, according to the <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/2020_democratic_presidential_nomination-6730.html">RealClearPolitics</a> national polling average. She has not hit double digits in the polls since August 2019.

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Kamala Harris Denies That Some Voters Have An Issue With Buttigieg&#8217;s Sexuality Amid Claims That Some Voters Have An Issue With Her Gender

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Speaking in Iowa on Monday, Democratic presidential candidate and South Bend, Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg claimed that he would bring Christianity back to the White House if he were elected president.
Buttigieg said:
<blockquote>Faith doesn’t have to be something to divide us. Firs of all, we gotta recognize that one of those many values honored by our flag is the fact that it belongs to people of every religion and no religion equally; that’s a basic American principle. But I’m also offering to people who are guided by a faith tradition in making their decisions about what they think is right and wrong that when I’m president you’ll never have to look at the White House and scratch your head and think, “Whatever happened to ‘I was hungry and you fed me. I was a stranger and you welcomed me.’ &#8216;Whatever you’ve done to the least of these, you have done to me.&#8217;”</blockquote>
Buttigieg then segued to attacking Citizens United, the Supreme Court decision that permitted  corporations and unions to be unfettered in their donations to political campaigns. He opined, “I’m thinking about democracy not as a system, but as a value, the belief that our country is better when the views of everybody are taken into account and when we have a system that actually reflects what we, the American people, want. That’s why it’s so important to do something abut Citizens United and get money out of politics.”
As <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/defending-citizens-united-anthony-dick/">National Review</a> noted in 2010 to support the SCOTUS decision:
<blockquote>… campaign-finance regulations have had two ugly impacts: First, they have imposed huge legal costs on those wishing to participate in the political process, effectively shutting out smaller voices who cannot afford to pay campaign lawyers and risk legal trouble in getting their messages across. Loosening legal restrictions on smaller businesses will now allow them to enter the marketplace of political ideas on a more equal footing with their larger competitors. Second, campaign-expenditure limits have driven corporate money away from public dialogue and into channels that have been more corrosive and less transparent (think lobbyists, lawsuits, and regulatory capture).</blockquote>
Buttigieg’s implication that he would bring Christianity back to the White House would seem to be in contrast with some of his previous statements. Last April, he attacked Vice President Mike Pence, a devout Christian, tweeting, “Speaking only for myself, I can tell you that if me being gay was a choice, it was a choice that was made far, far above my pay grade. And that&#8217;s the thing I wish the Mike Pences of the world would understand.” He <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/45811/karen-pence-responds-pete-buttigiegs-attack-her-amanda-prestigiacomo">added</a> on the The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, &#8220;He’s nice. If he were here, you would think he’s a nice guy to your face. But he’s also fanatical.&#8221;
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&quot;Speaking only for myself, I can tell you that if me being gay was a choice, it was a choice that was made far, far above my pay grade. And that&#39;s the thing I wish the Mike Pences of the world would understand,&quot; Pete Buttigieg told LGBTQ political action committee Victory Fund <a href="https://t.co/qNKXgFjJXj">pic.twitter.com/qNKXgFjJXj</a>
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As Michael Knowles of The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pete-buttigiegs-bad-faith-campaign-michael-j-knowles">noted</a>:
<blockquote>For his part, Pence has never criticized Buttigieg. He has never attacked Buttigieg for his homosexuality or anything else. When Buttigieg deployed to Afghanistan, Pence phoned to wish him well. The only time Pence publicly referred to the South Bend mayor was to pay him a compliment. “I hold Mayor Buttigieg in the highest personal regard,” wrote Pence in 2015, after Buttigieg declared himself gay. “I see him as a dedicated public servant and a patriot,” gushed Pence — not exactly fighting words.</blockquote>
Pence responded to Buttigieg on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” saying, “He said some things that are critical of my Christian faith and about me personally, and he knows better; he knows me.” Pence pointed out that Buttigieg’s remarks were likely a political move, adding, “I get it you know, it’s like — you have 19 people running for president on that side in a party that’s sliding off to the Left.”
U.S. Ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, who is gay, <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1119068781886750720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">snapped</a>, &#8220;One of the things that really bothers me about this attack is that Mike Pence is a friend of mine. Mike and Karen are great people. They are godly people. They’re followers of Christ. They don’t have hate in their heart for anyone. They know my partner, they have accepted us. You ask me do we agree philosophically on every single issue? No.”
Last May, after Georgia passed a “heartbeat bill” protecting the lives of unborn children, Buttigieg tweeted, “A woman has enough to deal with when it comes to her health care without also having to worry about male politicians telling her what she ought to do with her body. Georgia’s abortion ban is a cruel attack on women’s autonomy and freedom — one that we must continue to resist.”
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A woman has enough to deal with when it comes to her health care without also having to worry about male politicians telling her what she ought to do with her body. Georgia’s abortion ban is a cruel attack on women’s autonomy and freedom — one that we must continue to resist.
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Also in May, Buttigieg implied that if God belonged to a political party, it wouldn’t be the Republican party. <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/07/politics/pete-buttigieg-god-political-party-republican/index.html">Asserting</a> that he discussed religion so people will &#8220;stop seeing religion as a kind of cudgel as if God belonged to a political party,” he followed by saying, “And if he did, I can&#8217;t imagine it would be the one that sent the current president into the White House.&#8221;
Video of Buttigieg&#8217;s Iowa statement below:
H/T <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/buttigieg-claims-he-will-exemplify-values-of-jesus-in-white-house">Washington Examiner</a>

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South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg responded on Monday after House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) revealed a day earlier that he believes that some of his constituents are having trouble supporting a presidential candidate who is gay.
&#8220;You know, some of what we&#8217;re hearing in South Carolina reminds me of South Bend, a place where there are a lot of Democrats but a lot of socially conservative Democrats,&#8221; Buttigieg told CNN anchor John Berman. &#8220;At the end of the day, I think the reason why people in my community moved past that and reelected me and the reason we&#8217;re going to be able to earn votes in every part of the country is that elections are about this: they&#8217;re about voters asking the question &#8216;how will my life be different if you get elected president versus somebody else?'&#8221;
&#8220;I think we have the best answer to that question,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;If I can do my job and get that answer in front of as many voters as possible it is remarkable how Americans are capable of moving past old habits, moving past old prejudices, making history and getting the president who will serve them best regardless of some of the other noise that&#8217;s circling around the race.&#8221;
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The remarks come as Buttigieg has been gaining momentum nationally, but still failing to gain traction with African American voters, which is most evident by his low polling numbers throughout South Carolina. In the <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-primaries/democratic/south-carolina/">most recent poll</a> coming out of the Palmetto State, Buttigieg received only 3% support, putting him in sixth place behind lower tier candidates like Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) and financier Tom Steyer.
During a Sunday morning appearance on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of Union,&#8221; Clyburn was asked whether Buttigieg&#8217;s struggle with some African American voters in South Carolina has anything to do with his sexuality.
&#8220;Yes, it is. There&#8217;s no question about that,&#8221; the South Carolina lawmaker responded. &#8220;I&#8217;m not going to sit here and tell you otherwise because I think everybody knows that&#8217;s an issue. But I&#8217;m saying, it&#8217;s an issue not the way it used to be.&#8221;
Berman, however, further pressed the Democratic presidential hopeful on why his message doesn&#8217;t seem to be connecting with African American voters.
“Well, here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ll say. In order to get somebody&#8217;s vote you have to earn it and you have to deserve it and you have to put forward the answers that are going to make sense,&#8221; Buttigieg replied. &#8220;Now our response to those who ask what our agenda for black America is, is the Douglass Plan. It is the most comprehensive vision put forward by a 2020 candidate on the question of how we’re going to tackle systemic racism in this country.&#8221;
Buttigieg formally introduced his 18-page Douglass Plan in July amid criticism of his handling of a police shooting in his hometown of South Bend. The sweeping proposal calls for a broad series of political and policy reforms including issues such as criminal justice, education, housing, health disparities, voting rights, and even the racial wealth gap.
The plan seeks to convince black voters that he deserves their support despite their reported skepticism, but has moved the needle little since it was first previewed during the Black Economic Alliance Presidential Forum in South Carolina.
&#8220;When I&#8217;m talking to audiences about this subject, including the majority African-American audiences, the response to what I have to offer has been phenomenal, but I certainly have a lot more work to do going around the country, making sure there can be no confusion, no question on the part of any voter where I stand,&#8221; Buttigieg said. &#8220;That&#8217;s what campaigns are for.&#8221;

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Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) responded on Sunday after her Democratic presidential challenger Pete Buttigieg stated that the primary race is beginning to winnow down to only two candidates, himself and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).
&#8220;Well, I think that&#8217;s just, that it&#8217;s naive for him to think that at this point that the fate of this election has been determined,&#8221; Harris told CBS News correspondent Ed O&#8217;Keefe. &#8220;Just look at history. He might need to review to know that what&#8217;s happening right now is not necessarily determinative of the outcome.&#8221;
Harris&#8217; remarks come after the South Bend, Indiana, mayor appeared on Showtime&#8217;s &#8220;The Circus,&#8221; where he suggested that voters may ultimately end up having to decide between himself or Warren to represent the Democratic Party in the general election.
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&#8220;I think this is getting to be a two-way,&#8221; Buttigieg said. &#8220;It&#8217;s early to say it. I&#8217;m not saying it is a two-way, but I think – &#8221;
&#8220;But you see that? You see it&#8217;s coming into focus: you and Warren,&#8221; host John Heilemann interrupted.
&#8220;Yeah, and certainly a world where we&#8217;re getting somewhere is that world, where it&#8217;s coming down to the two of us,&#8221; Buttigieg replied. &#8220;Obviously, there&#8217;s a lot of candidates and a lot of things can happen, but I think that as that happens, the contrasts become clear. Look, the contrasts are real. They&#8217;re substantive, respectful policy contrasts, but they&#8217;re real.&#8221;
Harris&#8217; campaign, which has been described recently as hemorrhaging cash, has been dramatically restructuring its staff nationwide, including both layoffs as well as redeployments, according to a memo obtained by <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/30/kamala-harris-campaign-layoffs-061112">Politico</a>. The California lawmaker laid off all of her New Hampshire field organizers and is closing all three field offices in the state as she has been struggling to gain traction. The campaign tried to tamp down alarm bells of an impending end to her presidential run, stating that the move is simply &#8220;a strategic decision to realign resources and go all-in on Iowa.&#8221;
While Harris&#8217; campaign pivots to focus on winning Iowa, the presidential hopeful has slipped into sixth place in the latest poll coming out of the state. Harris is tied with entrepreneur Andrew Yang at 3%, according to a poll of likely voters conducted by <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-primaries/democratic/iowa/">Siena College/New York Times</a> in late October. Buttigieg, on the other hand, is at 18% and within the margin of error of the frontrunners.
Harris, who has previously vowed to achieve a top three finish in the Hawkeye State, repeatedly dodged O&#8217;Keefe&#8217;s attempts to inquire on whether she still has that goal.
&#8220;I&#8217;m all-in in Iowa, I&#8217;m all in,&#8221; Harris said. &#8221; &#8230; we are going to end up in Iowa doing very well.&#8221;
Buttigieg later responded to Harris&#8217;s comments by telling The New York Times that &#8220;she&#8217;s right.&#8221;
&#8220;Look, where we are now is three months ahead of the Iowa primary, and the, or the Iowa Caucuses, and the Iowa Caucuses are just the beginning,&#8221; he said.
As of publication, Harris sits at just under 5% support among Democratic primary voters nationwide, according to the <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/2020_democratic_presidential_nomination-6730.html">RealClearPolitics</a> national polling average. She has not hit double digits in the polls since August 2019.

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WATCH: Harris Calls Buttigieg &#8216;Naive&#8217; For Thinking It’s Only A Two Way Race For The Democratic Nomination

In a recent episode of Showtime’s “The Circus,” John Heilemann spoke with 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg.
During the segment, the South Bend, Indiana, mayor said that he sees the primary field winnowing to himself and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).
<blockquote>BUTTIGIEG: I think this is getting to be a two-way. It&#8217;s early to say it. I&#8217;m not saying it is a two-way, but I think –
HEILEMANN: But you see that? You see it&#8217;s coming into focus – you and Warren.
BUTTIGIEG: Yeah, and certainly a world where we’re getting somewhere is that world, where it&#8217;s coming down to the two of us. Obviously, there&#8217;s a lot of candidates and a lot of things can happen, but I think that as that happens, the contrasts become clear. Look, the contrasts are real. They’re substantive, respectful policy contrasts, but they&#8217;re real.
HEILEMANN: First of all, it&#8217;s interesting you say that, right? So, you accept the notion right now that it&#8217;s kind of Warren against the field, really.
BUTTIGIEG: Yeah.
HEILEMANN: Someone’s trying to become the the alternative to Warren right now, right?
BUTTIGIEG: Yeah, I think it&#8217;s shaping up that way.
HEILEMANN: And so the former Vice President of the United States is like, in your mind at this point, already, like, gone?
BUTTIGIEG: I would say this. Either he is the unstoppable front-runner, and we can all go home, or he&#8217;s not, and anybody who&#8217;s in this race is pure on the assumption that he&#8217;s not.</blockquote>
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Looking at the RealClearPolitics national polling averages since the beginning of July (just after the first Democratic primary debate), former Vice President Joe Biden has remained fairly consistent. During that same time period, Sen. Elizabeth Warren steadily rose. However, around the beginning of October, Warren began a slow decline.
While Buttigieg has had multiple minor surges, he hasn’t received more than 10% of the vote in a single national poll.
However, the mayor has seen a swift upswing in Iowa, where two <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/ia/iowa_democratic_presidential_caucus-6731.html">recent polls</a> put him within striking distance of Warren. As of publication, Buttigieg sits in second place in Iowa at 17%, according to the RealClearPolitics average.
Buttigieg isn’t faring as well in other early primary/caucus states. He’s in fourth place in New Hampshire with just 8.7%; in fifth place in Nevada with just 3.5%; and in sixth place in South Carolina with just 4%.
In response to Buttigieg’s remarks on “The Circus,” Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), who is struggling in both national and state polling, told CBS’ Ed O’Keefe that the mayor is being “<a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/468760-harris-laughs-says-buttigieg-is-naive-to-suggest-its-a-two-person-race-with">naive</a>.”
“Well I think that it’s naive for him to think that at this point that the fate of this election has been determined. Just look at history,” Harris stated. “He might need to review past elections to know that what’s happening right now is not necessarily determinative of the outcome.”
David Axelrod, former chief strategist for the Obama campaign, also commented: “The campaign strategist’s nightmare: When the candidate goes all pundit in an interview.  Unhelpful. Honest but unnecessary. All part of learning the rules of a game in which candor can sound like hubris.”
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Honest but unnecessary. All part of learning the rules of a game in which candor can sound like hubris.
— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) <a href="https://twitter.com/davidaxelrod/status/1190709065820839936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 2, 2019</a></blockquote>
As for campaign cash, Buttigieg is very much alive in the race. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-money-2020-democrats-candidates-have-raised-fundraising-2019-4">Business Insider</a> reports that the South Bend mayor raised enough money in the third quarter to stand just behind Sanders and Warren:
<blockquote>Sen. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/who-is-bernie-sanders-bio-age-family-key-positions-2019-3">Bernie Sanders</a> leads the pack with $25.3 million followed by Sen. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/who-is-elizabeth-warren-bio-age-family-key-positions-2019-3">Elizabeth Warren</a> with $24.6 million and Mayor <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/who-is-pete-buttigieg-bio-age-family-key-positions-2019-3">Pete Buttigieg</a> with $19.1 million.</blockquote>
When it comes to cash on hand, Buttigieg has approximately $23.3 million as of October 15. Sanders and Warren have $33.7 and $25.7, respectively. Perhaps more importantly, Buttigieg ranked fifth among the Democratic candidates when it came to spending, behind billionaire Tom Steyer, Sanders, Warren, and Biden, reports <a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/04/16/711812314/tracking-the-money-race-behind-the-presidential-campaign">NPR</a>.

Buttigieg.

WATCH: Buttigieg Suggests Primary Moving Toward ‘A Two-Way’ Race Between Him And Warren

This week, four of the top candidates for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination — Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, Julian Castro and Bernie Sanders — gathered at the J Street Conference to explain why the United States ought to pressure the state of Israel to make concessions to terrorists, why the Obama administration was correct to appease the Iranian regime and why American Jews ought to value the opinions of Bernie Sanders over those of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the future of Jewish safety. Two other top Democrats — Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden — sent video messages in support of the group.
By contrast, when the American Israel Public Affairs Committee held its annual conference in March, not a single Democratic presidential candidate showed up. The Democrats are, by and large, simply too ashamed to stand with an actual pro-Israel group, although prominent congressional leaders still show up to mouth nostrums about bipartisan support for Israel.
But the heart of the Democratic Party has moved against Israel. That&#8217;s because Israel is economically successful, while its enemies are not; Israel is liberal, while its enemies are not; Israel is the tip of the spear of Western civilization in an area known for its tribalism and brutality. This means that according to the radical left, Israel is an exploitative country hell-bent on domination, despite its lack of territorial ambition — Israel has signed over large swaths of land won through military victory to geopolitical enemies, and offered much more repeatedly.
So the Democrats built up and gave credence to J Street, a Trojan horse group dedicated to undermining American support for Israel and justifying left-wing hatred of the Jewish state. J Street was founded by Clinton operative Jeremy Ben-Ami and Israeli far-left political figure Daniel Levy in late 2007. One of its chief sources of funding — a source obscured in the early years by its founders — was anti-Israel radical George Soros.
The media quickly began treating J Street as a legitimate representative of mainstream Jewish opinion on Israel, and so did Democrats, particularly in the anti-Israel Obama administration: Rather than having to deal with those troublesome actually pro-Israel voices at AIPAC, it was easier to bring in a few ringers from J Street to pretend that advocating for negotiations with Hamas represented an acceptable opinion in the pro-Israel community.
Read the rest <a href="https://www.creators.com/read/ben-shapiro">here</a>.

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Shapiro: The J Street Democrats

Barack Obama

Israel

J Street

Julian Castro

The following is satirical.
It’s Halloween, which means over-excited children pretending to be what they’re not will be coming around your house asking you to give them your stuff, so it’s kind of like the Democratic primaries.
There’ll be monsters, witches, vampires and ghosts everywhere, so it’s kind of like the Democratic primaries. You’ll go out and spend your hard earned money on treats and then spoiled brats will come to your house and demand that you give those treats to them or they’ll pull destructive tricks on you, so it’s sort of like the Democratic primaries.
This year’s popular costumes include a walking dead man who will devour your brains, a screeching harpy whose hideous demeanor will paralyze you with fear and disgust, and a succubus — a female spirit who will drain you of your life force. Those are the Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren costumes, respectively.
There’s also a Pete Buttigieg costume where you look normal until someone gets up close and then you suddenly become terrifying. And, of course, the Joe Biden costume in which you become a ghost of your former self and everyone can see right through you.
Halloween has a long tradition based on ancient superstitions and irrational beliefs — so that is also sort of like the Democratic primaries. The word Halloween means All Hallow’s Eve and comes on the eve of All Hallow’s Day when believers honor the saints, who are dead people whose power is still felt on earth, sort of like Democrat voters, only good.
Over time, the holiday developed its present fun traditions where young people dress up in various costumes and then other young people shriek in their faces about cultural appropriation, then try to get them expelled, then go home and tell themselves what wonderful people they are all the while harboring the secret suspicion that they actually suck which, it turns out, is exactly right.
Thus Halloween has been transformed from an interesting annual event into a riot of rage, guilt and shame — sort of like the Democratic primaries.
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Halloween

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What happens when none of the top contenders for your party&#8217;s 2020 nomination seem likely to build a coalition strong enough to win? If you&#8217;re the Democrats, you might just get &#8230; creative.
According to reports from Iowa, Democratic rising star and South Bend, Indiana, mayor Pete Buttigieg is looking like a reasonable option to secure the 2020 Democratic nomination amid concerns that none of the three frontrunners &#8212; former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), or Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) &#8212; can put together the kind of coalition of Democratic voters necessary to defeat President Donald Trump.
Enter Buttigieg, <a href="https://iowastartingline.com/2019/10/26/an-emerging-scenario-where-buttigieg-wins-the-nomination/">Iowa Starting Line says</a>.
&#8220;[T]here’s real reason to think Pete Buttigieg could yet win this nomination outright,&#8221; the political magazine, based in one of the first primary states. &#8220;One such rather plausible scenario is starting to develop right before our eyes. It starts, as these things so often do, in Iowa.&#8221;
The theory goes that Buttigieg, who is pulling into a strong third place in Iowa (he&#8217;s now easily clearing 10% and, in some cases, is well into the double digits in polls) and jumping up nationally, could be a real option if the race for the Democratic nomination lasts longer than a few early primaries.
“If he can win in areas like [Des Moines, Iowa], then theoretically he can challenge Joe Biden for dominance among that part of the Democratic ideological spectrum,” <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/oct/27/pete-buttigieg-channels-obama-expands-electorate-m/">pollster John Couvillon told the Washington Examiner</a>. “While a lot of the Democrats are fighting over the progressive wing, the moderate wing has not been much fought over, and that is what I think Buttigieg is trying to do, and Dallas County is ground zero for that effort.”
In order to grab the nomination, Buttigieg has to make a strong showing in New Hampshire, Iowa, South Carolina, or Nevada. Doing so could earn him the backing of undecided voters and hedging donors, building up his already substantial war chest and putting him among the frontrunners.
He&#8217;s already in a good position. Buttigieg has the benefit of being viewed as a &#8220;moderate&#8221; by a number of Democratic demographics &#8212; and, in particular, the Democratic elite, who have expressed few reservations about the openly gay midwestern mayor. He competes well nationally, rakes in the cash, and, perhaps best of all, he&#8217;s not Biden and Warren, two intensely controversial Democratic figures.
That, of course, means Buttigieg benefits only if both Biden and Warren fail &#8212; something that seems unlikely given the current national polls &#8212; and assuming the Democratic Party has absolutely no intention of nominating Bernie Sanders. The last one is likely a given, and Biden is clearly on a downward trajectory, but in recent days, the threads at the edge of Warren&#8217;s campaign have also begun unraveling.
Warren is making some Democratic bigwigs nervous already, <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/09/warren-fundraisers-general-election-2020-043127">with an announcement</a> that she will forgo donations from corporations, banks, the technology sector, and SuperPACs, and won&#8217;t attend any high-dollar fundraisers for her own presidential campaign. That may be popular among voters, but it won&#8217;t be popular among Democrats who need to fund the party, especially given that the presidential nominee shares his or her take with the national committee.
Her plan also comes with a very big asterisk, <a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/155102/warrens-plan-spurn-big-money-donors-catch">as the New Republic points out</a>. Warren has no trouble attending events for the Democratic Party, where the party is required to split their take with her. As long as she&#8217;s not headlining, her ironclad ethics are somewhat &#8230; flexible. That&#8217;s not very popular with progressives, who see Sanders <a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/155102/warrens-plan-spurn-big-money-donors-catch">as their only &#8220;pure&#8221; route to power </a>and in opposite circles, on Wall Street and elsewhere, it&#8217;s motivating typically Democratic donors to direct their funds elsewhere, often to Buttigieg, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/wall-street-frets-privately-about-warrens-2020-campaign-11571923342">according to the Wall Street Journal</a>.
Things are looking so grim that, last week, big money Democratic donors were reportedly asking the party if there was anyone else available to run in 2020, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/22/us/politics/democratic-candidates-2020.html">according to the New York Times</a>. Funders reportedly floated names like Michelle Obama, Sherrod Brown, and even Hillary Clinton.
Buttigieg appears to be taking advantage of the opportunity. Last week, he challenged both Sanders and Warren on their expensive Medicare for All plans, and reports are that Buttigieg is moving in on the African American voter community, which has, until now, been leaning towards Joe Biden. He&#8217;s also opened offices in Iowa&#8217;s Dallas County, an exploding mid-Iowa community, where he&#8217;ll be making a play for potential caucus-goers who aren&#8217;t yet registered.

Presidential Candidate Pete Buttigieg Campaigns In South Carolina

Nominate Buttigieg? Desperate Dems Are Reportedly Exploring The Option

Former Vice President Joe Biden, who is desperately clinging to the lead in the race to earn the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, is desperate for cash and, over the weekend, his campaign had to beg donors to &#8220;dig deep.&#8221;
A &#8220;close confidante&#8221; of Biden&#8217;s has reportedly been reaching out to the candidate&#8217;s most generous donors, asking them to pony up more money before Biden&#8217;s campaign has to scale back, and in a &#8220;confidential memo&#8221; sent to Biden&#8217;s top bundlers last week, Biden&#8217;s campaign manager, Greg Schultz, begged for more cash for ads in key states, <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/were-asking-you-to-dig-deep-biden-seeks-to-steady-finances-as-allies-fret/ar-AAJnGzs">according to MSN</a>.
&#8220;We will have the resources we need to execute our plan,” Mr. Schultz reportedly wrote, according to the memo published by The New York Times. “We’re asking you to dig deep.”
Biden&#8217;s campaign started strong after launching in April, raising an astounding $21.5 million in the first few weeks &#8212; second only to South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg, who was then enjoying a honeymoon among well-connected Democrats and hopeful progressives enchanted by his platform and demeanor and eager to support the first Millennial candidate for President of the United States.
When Biden reported his second quarter numbers in July, he was well ahead of both Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), both considered Biden&#8217;s top rivals for the 2020 nomination, <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2019/07/03/biden-raises-21-5-m-since-april-trails-buttigieg-fundraising/1644053001/">according to USA Today</a>. Biden&#8217;s third quarter reports weren&#8217;t as rosy; he raised just $15 million over the summer, falling behind both Buttigieg and, this time, Sanders, <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/03/biden-says-his-campaign-raised-15-million-in-third-quarter-less-than-sanders-and-buttigieg.html">NBC News reports</a>.
At the moment, it is believed that Biden has only $9 million cash on hand &#8212; far too little to last until the Iowa Caucus in 100 days at Biden&#8217;s current burn rate, and far less than his top rivals. Sanders has more than $30 million on hand, thanks to a very lean campaign strategy, and Warren, whose profile has surged in recent weeks, has $27 million. Even Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), who, after a significant bump in late summer is now polling in the doldrums &#8212; the low single digits &#8212; has more cash on hand than Biden.
The problem seems to be Biden&#8217;s expenditures and not his fundraising skills or Democratic excitement, though both of those factors are also significant. <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/joe-biden-bleeding-cash-spent-nearly-dollar1-million-on-private-jets">The Daily Beast reported last week</a> that Biden&#8217;s campaign was running through money like water, spending close to a million dollars on private jet travel (even though Biden labeled himself the &#8220;Amtrak candidate&#8221; in a speech about his commute down the Acela corridor while he was a Senator).
He&#8217;s also splashed out on high-dollar campaign consultants: $230,000 on “fundraising consultants,” $228,378 on research consultants, $150,400 on “strategic consultants,&#8221; and $122,000 for polling. And he hasn&#8217;t skimped on his accommodations, staying in five-star hotels from New York to Idaho.
Not all campaigns are able to sustain their spending, but that doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean they are doomed to failure. But there&#8217;s growing concern, it seems, that Democratic donors are giving less to Biden because they&#8217;re hedging their bets on who will come out on top in the nomination contest.
To that end, Biden is reportedly stepping up his fundraising game, traveling to high dollar fundraisers intead of letting his staff handle them, scaling back expenses, and focusing on online donations, which have ticked up for Biden recently, and which seem to increase every time he&#8217;s targeted by President Donald Trump.
Whatever strategy he uses, he should make it quick: national polls are now trending towards Warren and her lead is growing in Iowa. Although Biden&#8217;s campaign has maintained that he can win the nomination without some of the early states, that strategy will only hold out as long as Biden has the money to push hard in Democratic strongholds like California, and Warren is moving in on his territory there. She just bought more than $2 million in ads in California this week.

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Team Biden Asks Donors To &#8216;Dig Deep&#8217; As Campaign Burns Through Cash

This week, 2020 presidential candidate Mayor Pete Buttigieg released an action plan for women that includes the repeal of the Hyde Amendment, which would force Americans to fund abortions with taxpayer dollars.
&#8220;His proposal to secure &#8216;power for women in the 21st century&#8217; is centered on a repeal of the Hyde Amendment, which protects Americans from directly funding abortions via their tax dollars,&#8221; reports <a href="https://www.lifenews.com/2019/10/25/pete-buttigieg-says-americans-should-be-forced-to-fund-abortions/">LifeNews</a>.
“Progress for women has come despite systemic sexism and racism, and persistent gender bias,” Mayor Buttigieg said of his proposal. “And now, with women’s rights under assault, we can’t wait any longer to ensure women have the power they deserve.”
In the same proposal, Buttigieg also promised a number of radical feminist solutions to supposed problems, such as closing the gender pay gap.
Here&#8217;s what <a href="https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/10/24/20928483/pete-buttigieg-womens-agenda">Vox</a> had to say of it:
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He wants to double funding for the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, for example, which enforces anti-discrimination laws in the workplace. Right now, the EEOC is severely underfunded, which has caused a backlog of cases for staff lawyers to investigate.
His plan also shows a deep understanding of the barriers working women face. He wants to ban companies from asking new hires about their salary history, as basing salary offers on past compensation perpetuates discrimination that keeps women’s salaries lower then men’s. Some cities and states have already banned the question.
Buttigieg also supports legislation that would require companies to publish the median pay gap within its workforce, specifically the difference in earnings between women and men, and between white employees and workers of color.
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Buttigieg characterizes himself as a moderate even though he has adopted some of his party’s most extreme views on abortion. When defending his stance on the practice of late-term abortion, Buttigieg chalked the moral argument down to it all being a woman’s “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pete-buttigieg-georgia-abortion-law-cruel-attack-paul-bois">personal decision</a>.”
“The way I explain this, and it’s something that I think any pro-choice candidate from a conservative state faces, and that is I respect and understand where others are coming from. Many of my supporters, many of my friends view this issue differently,” the mayor said on MSNBC. “But we’re talking about who gets to make that decision. And the way this has been characterized, especially lately, is asking questions that almost in themselves are misleading about the medical situations that women face – not to mention the personal decisions that they are confronted with.”
“To me, it’s a very complex issue that should be guided by a very simple principle: which is that having these things dictated by the government does not make that decision any easier,” he continued. “Some of these questions are religious or meta-physical, they’re not things that are knowable in a traditional sense, not questions you can get the answer.”
Buttigieg also referred to the Georgia heartbeat law that protected unborn babies from abortion after doctors detect a heartbeat in the mother&#8217;s womb as a &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pete-buttigieg-georgia-abortion-law-cruel-attack-paul-bois">cruel attack</a>&#8221; on women.
“A woman has enough to deal with when it comes to her health care without also having to worry about male politicians telling her what she ought to do with her body,” Buttigieg tweeted at the time. “Georgia’s abortion ban is a cruel attack on women’s autonomy and freedom – one that we must continue to resist.”

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Mayor Pete Endorses Taxpayer Funded Abortions

Abortion

South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg stated that if he was elected as president of the United States, he would try to heal the divide in the country and reassure Americans about the voting process in part by abolishing the Electoral College.
&#8220;I think the work that has to go on right away is to make sure our institutions actually reflect us,&#8221; Buttigieg replied, when asked, what he would do to reinforce the legitimacy of the election system. &#8220;Not that we have majority popular rule on every decision, but there should at least be some resemblance between the decisions that are being made and what the American people want.&#8221;
&#8220;You can see this across various issues, but the issue behind every issue is democracy,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;The fact that districts are drawn where politicians effectively choose their voters, certainly the rule of money in politics, and I would argue the existence fo the Electoral College itself.&#8221;
While speaking at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics, Buttigieg explained to interviewer David Axelrod, who famously served as the chief of staff to former President Barack Obama, that many &#8220;anti-democratic&#8221; qualities of the American voting, such as the Electoral College, have ground the system&#8217;s responsiveness to a halt and therefore need to be fixed immediately.
&#8220;The process stuff is never sexy, but that&#8217;s got to be done right alongside dealing with climate, and wages, and racial inequity, and healthcare if we want to advance as a country in our lifetime,&#8221; the Democratic presidential hopeful continued.
&#8220;So, you think you would restore unity by moving to eliminate the Electoral College?&#8221; Axelrod pressed for clarification.
&#8220;I think that it&#8217;s one example — no, this is important,&#8221; Buttigieg said amid laughter from the crowd. &#8220;Think about this, if we had a national popular vote we&#8217;d all actually be participating in the same election for president, which is actually not true right now.&#8221;
The South Bend, Indiana mayor further contended that while the American democratic structures are failing to adequately function, President Donald Trump has been making the system even worse off since he was elected to the presidency.
&#8220;I think that Trump&#8217;s arrival largely reflects a sense of frustration about those structures,&#8221; Buttigieg said. &#8220;For example, in his campaign he said the elections are rigged. Now in one sense that was a lie because he was saying that it was undocumented immigrants by the busload showing up at precincts &#8230; But in another sense, if the outcome of a congressional race is effectively predetermined by gerrymandering, then in a certain very transparent, naked, and real way that&#8217;s true.&#8221;
&#8220;So the things that he was saying that weren&#8217;t true often rhymed with something that was true and tapped into this more general desire, I think, to burn the house down,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Which is why all of the racism, and the misogyny, and the xenophobia in his campaign found such fertile ground.&#8221;
Buttigieg noted that while he is not under the impression that overhauling the American election system to favor the national popular vote will be a quick and easy process, it is important to &#8220;elevate our ambition&#8221; because, he argues, American democratic structures do not currently work.
&#8220;If our institutions continue to be this encrusted and non-functional, then I really think no matter how clever the policies we come up with on health, or climate, or wages, or whatever, we&#8217;ll continue to see this disconnect that will empower whoever is the loudest and promises most convincingly that they&#8217;re going to burn the house down,&#8221; he added.

Presidential Candidate Pete Buttigieg Speaks At The University Of Chicago

Buttigieg Suggests He Will Help Restore Unity By Abolishing Electoral College

Electoral College

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) revealed on Saturday that she is open to withholding billions of dollars in military aid to Israel until the government ceases building settlements in the country&#8217;s West Bank.
While speaking to reporters at a campaign stop in Iowa, Warren was asked if she was open to making &#8220;American aid conditional on a freeze to settlement building.&#8221;
&#8220;Right now, [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu says that he is going to take Israel in a direction of increasing settlements, [but] that does not move us toward a two-state solution,&#8221; Warren responded. &#8220;It is the official policy of the United States of America to support a two-state solution, and if Israel is moving in the opposite direction, then everything is on the table.&#8221;
&#8220;Everything is on the table,&#8221; she interrupted as the reporter tried to inquire further.
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While virtually all of the candidates in the Democratic presidential primary field have advocated for a two-state solution, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg has been the lone candidate to openly call for making Israeli military aid conditional.
&#8220;A two-state solution that achieves legitimate Palestinian aspirations and meets Israel&#8217;s security needs remains the only viable way forward, and it will be our policy to support such a solution actively,&#8221; Buttigieg said. &#8220;And if Prime Minister Netanyahu makes good on his promise to annex West Bank settlements, he should know that a President Buttigieg would take steps to ensure that American taxpayers won&#8217;t help foot the bill.&#8221;
The Democratic presidential hopeful was <a href="https://www.jns.org/graham-zeldin-slam-buttigieg-for-threat-to-cut-us-aid-over-potential-west-bank-annexation/">subsequently slammed</a> for being especially critical of the Jewish state, one of the United States&#8217; strongest allies, while remaining silent on the terror emanating from Gaza and the West Bank, which are under control of the Palestinian Authority (PA).
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), a fierce critic of Netanyahu, has been especially critical of Israel and its treatment of Palestinians. In August, the socialist lawmaker threatened to withhold billions of dollars in military aid to Israel to combat what he called &#8220;racism&#8221; on behalf of the Jewish state.
While Sanders has recently referred to himself as a &#8220;proud Jewish person,&#8221; the Vermont lawmaker has largely distanced himself from Judaism. Not only does he refrain from observing Jewish customs, he is also not a member of any congregation and doesn&#8217;t attend a synagogue.
&#8220;I&#8217;m not actively involved with organized religion,&#8221; Sanders <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bernie-sanders-finally-answers-the-god-question/2016/01/26/83429390-bfb0-11e5-bcda-62a36b394160_story.html?postshare=9611453895803704">revealed to reporters</a> in 2016.
Sanders, however, has spoken of his Jewish heritage during his second bid for the presidency, especially when discussing his stance on the U.S.-Israeli alliance and Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
&#8220;I spent a number of months in Israel. I worked on a kibbutz for a while. I have family in Israel. I am not anti-Israel,&#8221; Sanders said in April. &#8220;But the fact of the matter is that Netanyahu is a right-wing politician who I think is treating the Palestinian people extremely unfairly.&#8221;
&#8220;The United States gives billions of dollars in military aid to Israel,&#8221; he added. &#8220;What I believe is not radical. I just believe that the United States should deal with the Middle East on a level playing field basis. In other words, the goal must be to try to bring people together and not just support one country which is now run by a right-wing, dare I say, racist government.&#8221;

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On Sunday, Democratic presidential candidate Mayor Pete Buttigieg appeared on CNN’s “State of the Union” with host Jake Tapper.
During the segment, which touched on various topics, Tapper asked Buttigieg about the ongoing feud between former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and fellow Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI).
On Wednesday, Clinton appeared on David Plouffe’s “Campaign HQ” podcast, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-gabbard-smacks-clinton-she-knows-she-cant-manipulate-me-if-im-elected-president">seemed to claim</a> that Gabbard was a “Russian asset.”
Here are Clinton’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-gabbard-smacks-clinton-she-knows-she-cant-manipulate-me-if-im-elected-president">exact words</a>:
<blockquote>I’m not making any predictions, but I think they’ve got their eye on someone who’s currently in the Democratic primary, and are grooming her to be the third-party candidate. She’s a favorite of the Russians. They have a bunch of sites and bots and other ways of supporting her so far, and that’s assuming Jill Stein will give it up, which she might not, because she’s also a Russian asset.</blockquote>
A Clinton spokesperson later <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-gabbard-smacks-clinton-she-knows-she-cant-manipulate-me-if-im-elected-president">confirmed</a> that the former secretary of state was indeed speaking about Gabbard, telling CNN, &#8220;If the nesting doll fits.&#8221;
Buttigieg pivoted away from actually condemning Clinton when pressed by Tapper:
<blockquote>TAPPER: We&#8217;re running out of time, so I do want to flip to a different topic, which is the last Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, appeared to suggest that one of your fellow campaign nominees or campaign hopefuls, Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, is a Russian asset.
[Tapper then played the clip of Clinton on David Plouffe&#8217;s podcast.]
TAPPER: So, Clinton&#8217;s spokesman confirmed that she was talking about Tulsi Gabbard there. Gabbard fired back, calling Secretary Clinton the “queen of warmongers,” “embodiment of corruption.” It went on from there. I know you don&#8217;t want to get in the middle of these two politicians fighting. But is it helpful to have the 2016 nominee suggesting that a congresswoman is a Russian asset?
BUTTIGIEG: I&#8217;d prefer to have the conversation be about policy, about what we&#8217;re going to do, and about how American lives are going to be different. When it comes to any of my Democratic competitors, that&#8217;s my focus, making sure that we make very clear the differences – and there are very real differences among us – and making it clear to voters what their choices are. That&#8217;s where I&#8217;d like to focus to be.
TAPPER: Right. But do you think Tulsi Gabbard is a Russian asset?
BUTTIGIEG: I don&#8217;t know what the basis is for that.
TAPPER: Well, I don&#8217;t either.
BUTTIGIEG: I consider her to be a competitor, somebody who I respect her service. I also have very different views than she does, especially on foreign policy. And I would prefer to have that argument in terms of policy, which is what we do with debates and what we&#8217;re doing as we go forward.
TAPPER: So when Donald Trump smears people, Democrats all stand up and say, you&#8217;re smearing someone. Stop it. Why don&#8217;t Democrats do that, to say that about Tulsi Gabbard? It seems like an obvious smear. I don&#8217;t see any evidence she&#8217;s a Russian asset. It seems like a wild accusation.
BUTTIGIEG: Yes, I think statements like that ought to be backed by evidence.</blockquote>
Buttigieg then swiveled to “corruption,” the “mixing of domestic politics and foreign affairs,” and the White House.
After the Democratic candidate concluded, even Tapper highlighted the non-answer. “An agile pivot from Mayor Pete Buttigieg,” Tapper stated.
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Following the brouhaha between Clinton and Gabbard, few Democratic presidential candidates have spoken out in support of Gabbard.
Andrew Yang tweeted: “Tulsi Gabbard deserves much more respect and thanks than this. She literally just got back from serving our country abroad.”
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Tulsi Gabbard deserves much more respect and thanks than this. She literally just got back from serving our country abroad.
— Andrew Yang (@AndrewYang) <a href="https://twitter.com/AndrewYang/status/1185371843957526528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
When asked on Saturday about the internecine fight, Beto O’Rourke said: “Tulsi is not being groomed by anyone. She is her own person, obviously has served this country, continues to serve this country in uniform, in Congress, as a candidate for presidency. So, I think those facts speak for themselves.”
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/BetoORourke?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BetoORourke</a> on <a href="https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TulsiGabbard</a>: &#8220;Tulsi is not being groomed by anyone. She is her own person. Obviously has served this country, continues to serve this country in uniform, in Congress, as a candidate for presidency so I think those facts speak for themselves.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/dKnOVExx3H">pic.twitter.com/dKnOVExx3H</a>
— The Hill (@thehill) <a href="https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1185667486139764736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
Marianne Williamson also <a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/marwilliamson/status/1185407428248006657">tweeted</a> her support, calling the claim against Gabbard “character assassination.”
As of publication, Gabbard stands at 1.2% in the polls according to the <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/2020_democratic_presidential_nomination-6730.html">RealClearPolitics</a> national average of polling, while Yang, O’Rourke, and Williamson stand at 2.2%, 2.6%, and 0.6%, respectively.

Pete Buttigieg.

WATCH: Buttigieg Pivots When Asked About Hillary Clinton’s ‘Russian Asset’ Remark

Hillary Clinton

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Tulsi Gabbard

Following strong Tuesday night performances, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, have come away from the debate stage with even stronger financial viability. 
On Wednesday, Lis Smith, a senior advisor to Pete Buttigieg, announced on Twitter the Buttigieg campaign had raised $1 million in the aftermath of the first debate. The campaign indicated that the donations had come from “tens of thousands of donors.”
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">We are officially over $1M raised in the past 24 hours from tens of thousands of donors <a href="https://t.co/ceJDEzi8AF">https://t.co/ceJDEzi8AF</a>
— Lis Smith (@Lis_Smith) <a href="https://twitter.com/Lis_Smith/status/1184530421733822471?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 16, 2019</a></blockquote>
Klobuchar also announced on Twitter that she raised $1.1 million in the 24 hours after the debate. The fundraising haul is the largest amount Klobuchar has received in any single day while running for president, and is nearly 20% of the amount she raised in the entire third quarter of 2019.
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WE DID IT! Together we raised $1.1M in the 24 hours since the debate! This couldn&#8217;t have happened without you and your support. Let&#8217;s not stop! Keep the momentum going and donate today! <a href="https://t.co/iVg91M9DTq">https://t.co/iVg91M9DTq</a>
— Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar) <a href="https://twitter.com/amyklobuchar/status/1184665450292154371?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 17, 2019</a></blockquote>
During the debate, Klobuchar attacked Warren for supporting “Medicare For All,” drawing attention to the fact that Warren has yet to explain how she would pay for single-payer health care for everybody. 
“At least Bernie’s being honest here and saying how he’s gonna pay for this, and that taxes are going to go up,” Klobuchar told Warren, as reported by <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/elections/100000006761445/klobuchar-warren-health-care.html">The New York Times</a>. “We owe it to the American people to tell them where we’re going to send the invoice.”
After Warren deflected from Klobuchar’s criticism, Klobuchar rebutted, proclaiming that “the difference between a plan and a pipe dream is something that you can actually get done.”
A new study released by the <a href="https://www.urban.org/research/publication/incremental-comprehensive-health-reform-how-various-reform-options-compare-coverage-and-costs">Urban Institute</a>, a liberal think tank, showed that a plan similar to “Medicare for All” would increase federal health care spending by around $32.5 trillion dollars over the next decade.
As the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-moderate-2020-democrats-rip-elizabeth-warren-over-medicare-for-all-you-are-making-republican-talking-points">Daily Wire</a> previously reported, Buttigieg attacked Warren for not being honest about how “Medicare for All” would be funded.
“Look, this is why people here in the midwest are so frustrated with Washington in general and Capitol Hill in particular,” Buttigieg told Warren during the debate. “Your signature, senator, is to have a plan for everything — except this. No plan has been laid out to explain how a multi-trillion dollar hole in this ‘Medicare for All’ plan that Senator Warren is putting forward is supposed to get filled in.”
In another startling debate moment, Buttigieg sparred with Beto O’Rourke after the former congressman suggested that Democrats were cowering on the issue of gun confiscation. 
“The problem isn’t the polls, the problem is the policy. And I don’t need lessons from you on courage, political or personal,” Buttigieg told O’Rourke on the debate stage Tuesday, as reported by <a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/10/15/pete-buttigieg-beto-orourke-gun-violence-2020-democratic-presidential-debate-cnn-nyt-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/cnn-new-york-times-democratic-debate/">CNN</a>. “Everyone on this stage is determined to get something done. Everyone on this stage recognizes — or at least I thought we did — the problem is not other Democrats who don’t agree with your particular idea of how to handle this.” 
However, Buttigieg was not moderate on the issue, as he proceeded to place blame on the NRA and “their enablers in congress.”
According to <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/2020_democratic_presidential_nomination-6730.html">RealClearPolitics</a>, Buttigieg is currently polling in fourth behind Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). Klobuchar, who has failed to gain as much traction, is polling in eighth behind businessman Andrew Yang.

Candidates Who Attacked Warren Over &#8216;Medicare For All&#8217; Draw Massive Fundraising Boost

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South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg criticized his Democratic Party presidential challenger,  Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), on Wednesday for not being candid with the American people about how she intends to pay for her proposed &#8220;Medicare for All&#8221; plan.
&#8220;I have a lot of respect for Senator Warren, but last night she was more specific and forthcoming about the number of selfies she&#8217;s taken than about how this plan is going to be funded,&#8221; Buttigieg told CNN&#8217;s Alisyn Camerota. &#8220;That&#8217;s a real problem, especially when there&#8217;s a better way to deliver health care coverage to everybody.&#8221;
Warren, who has been battling Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) for the progressive lane to the Democratic presidential nomination, has been running on a platform of enacting a single-payer health insurance plan that would abolish the private insurance market and subsequently force roughly 150 million Americans who are currently enrolled in private insurance plans to switch to a government-run program.
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&quot;Last night, she was more specific and forthcoming about the number of selfies she&#39;s taken than about how this plan is going to be funded,&quot; says Mayor <a href="https://twitter.com/PeteButtigieg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PeteButtigieg</a> on Sen. Elizabeth Warren&#39;s refusal to answer how she would fund &quot;Medicare For All.&quot;<a href="https://t.co/0bMsul8X00">https://t.co/0bMsul8X00</a> <a href="https://t.co/zWSHVRmBkK">pic.twitter.com/zWSHVRmBkK</a>
&mdash; New Day (@NewDay) <a href="https://twitter.com/NewDay/status/1184442536124997633?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 16, 2019</a></blockquote>
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While Warren has yet to introduce her own version of &#8220;Medicare for All,&#8221; she has endorsed a plan that Sanders introduced in the Senate while running for president in 2016.
Although his campaign predicted that the proposal would cost taxpayers about $14 trillion over the next decade, most other estimates are significantly higher. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget <a href="http://www.crfb.org/blogs/how-much-will-medicare-all-cost">forecast Sanders&#8217; health care plan alone</a> as costing $28 trillion during the first 10 years, which is in the range of other estimates.
Sanders has generally been forthright about the tax hikes that Americans will face in order to pay for a &#8220;Medicare for All&#8221; plan. Instead, he argues that the net benefit of lower out-of-pocket costs outweighs the rise in taxes. Warren, on the other hand, has repeatedly dodged questions about any impending tax increases.
&#8220;Look, this is why people here in the midwest are so frustrated with Washington in general and Capitol Hill in particular,&#8221; Buttigieg told Warren during the Democratic National Committee&#8217;s primary debate on Tuesday. &#8220;Your signature, senator, is to have a plan for everything — except this. No plan has been laid out to explain how a multi-trillion dollar hole in this &#8216;Medicare for All&#8217; plan that Senator Warren is putting forward is supposed to get filled in.&#8221;
Buttigieg&#8217;s remarks come only days after he introduced a new campaign advertisement that takes a shot at &#8220;Medicare for All&#8221; proponents.  The ad, titled &#8220;Makes More Sense,&#8221; specifically calls out both Warren and Sanders by name and escalates a division in their policy prescriptions. The timing of the ad release foreshadowed the clash that seemingly occurred during the debate.
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&#8220;What most Americans want is to have an opportunity to walk away from their private plan, to have that, what I call &#8216;Medicare for All Who Want It&#8217; alternative, but also to be able to keep their private plan if they would prefer,&#8221; Buttigieg continued to Camerota. &#8220;And I think that&#8217;s the right answer, especially when you do the math and realize it is also an answer that is paid for, unlike the &#8216;Medicare for All,&#8217; whether you want it or not plans, that still have this giant question mark over how it&#8217;s supposes to work.&#8221;

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WATCH: Buttigieg Goes After Warren For Dodging Questions On Her Health Insurance Plan: She’s More ‘Forthcoming About The Number Of Selfies She’s Taken’

Medicare

According to a pair of well-regarded national polls, the Democrats officially have a new frontrunner: Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren.
Since early June, when she was polling at less than 8% by average and former Vice President Joe Biden was dominating at around 33%, Warren&#8217;s prospects to win the nomination have consistently and rapidly improved. By last week, <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/2020_democratic_presidential_nomination-6730.html">Real Clear Politics</a>&#8216; average of the national polls showed Warren and Biden in a dead heat.
While over the last few days Biden has edged ahead again in RCP&#8217;s average, a few recent polls say Warren is the true frontrunner now.
In a poll released a day before the fourth Democratic debate, which was held in Ohio Tuesday night, <a href="https://poll.qu.edu/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=3644">Quinnipiac</a> found Warren leading Biden by 3 points.
&#8220;Warren receives 30 percent of the vote among Democratic voters and independent voters who lean Democratic, while Biden gets 27 percent,&#8221; Quinnipiac reported Monday. The same poll conducted last week (Oct 8) likewise found Warren ahead of Biden by 3 points: 29 to 26 percent.
Quinnipiac shows what amounts to a two-candidate race, with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders a distant third, managing to earn just 11 percent of the vote. South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg came in fourth at 8 percent, and Sen. Kamala Harris fifth at 4 percent. No other candidate managed to earn more than 2 percent.
&#8220;For Senator Warren, the third straight time essentially tied at the top is the charm,&#8221; said Quinnipiac University Polling Analyst Tim Malloy. &#8220;Her candidacy clearly has staying power going into the debate.&#8221;
Asked who would be the best leader, Warren has also surged up to a close race with Biden, the former earning 28 percent of the Democratic and Democratic leaning voters&#8217; endorsement as the best leader while the latter earns 32 percent.
The results of Quinnipiac&#8217;s studies were similar to a recent <a href="https://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_uploads/document/x3neaunoh2/econTabReport.pdf">Economist/YouGov</a> poll that found Warren topping Biden by 4 points: 29 to 25 percent. As Quinnipiac found, Sanders came in a distant third with 14 percent, while Buttigieg and Harris came in tied at fourth at 5 percent.
RCP&#8217;s current average of the national polls shows Biden leading with 29.4 percent while Warren holds 23.4 percent of the Democratic vote by average.
Biden&#8217;s lead in RCP&#8217;s average is helped by a recent <a href="https://morningconsult.com/2020-democratic-primary-2/">Morning Consult/Politico</a> poll giving him a healthy 11-point lead over the Massachusetts senator: 32 to 21 percent. The Morning Consult poll also shows Sanders and Warren in a virtual dead heat, with the Vermont senator earning 19 percent, far better than Quinnipiac&#8217;s results and over 3 points better than RCP&#8217;s average.
A <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/429686638/Fox-News-Poll-October-6-8-2019">Fox News</a> poll released last week likewise gave Biden a strong lead over Warren, 32 to 22 percent. That poll gave Sanders 17 percent of the vote.
Another poll that helped give Biden a boost in RCP&#8217;s average is a study released last week by <a href="https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/465694-democratic-support-for-warren-climbs-to-record-high-in-new-poll">The Hill/HarrisX</a> showing Biden with a dominant 14-point advantage over Warren, 31 to 15 percent. The Hill poll is an outlier in that it showed Sanders in second with 17 percent.
All of the recent polls list Harris and Buttigieg at a distant fourth or fifth and no other candidates able to garner as much as even 5 percent of the Democratic vote.
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On Monday’s episode of “The Andrew Klavan Show,” Klavan talks about CNN’s woke LGBT town hall. Video and partial transcript below: 
[Last week the Democrats had] this gay town hall. It&#8217;s a disaster. I mean, just to give you a good — it was a while ago, so I don&#8217;t play too much of it, but I do want to play this one minute. This woman — a guy who says he&#8217;s a woman — who called himself Blossom Brown, steals the microphone from somebody asking a scripted question and starts screaming that CNN is killing transgender people. 
<blockquote>BROWN: I don’t want to take this away from you, but let me tell you something: Black trans women are being killed in this country, and CNN, you have erased black trans women for the last time. Let me tell you something.
Black trans women are dying, our lives matter! I am an extraordinary black trans woman! I deserve to be here! My black trans sisters that are here: I am tired! I am so tired! I was just sitting there, and this [unintelligible shouting]. 
LEMON: Ma’am.
BROWN: This not just about black trans women!
LEMON: Ma’am. 
BROWN: This about black trans brothers too!
LEMON: Ma’am. 
BROWN: I’m going to say what I’m going to say! I’m going to say what I’m going to say!
LEMON: No, no come here. I just want to ask you something. Come here. Tell me I want you to — what’s your name?
BROWN: Blossom C. Brown. Google me!
LEMON: Blossom, let me ask you something. 
BROWN: Please Google me!
LEMON: Blossom thank you, let me tell you something. No, don’t come on the stage, and may I have the mic?
BROWN: Okay, okay. </blockquote>
So, if I were a serious activist for the black community, who actually cared about the black community,I would be asking why there&#8217;s no town hall for the children in Chicago, where people are being shot — I think it&#8217;s hundreds of people have been shot this year in this. This person is talking about, I guess the 20 black trans people who have been killed, and we don&#8217;t even know if they were killed in hate crimes, we don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s the reason. 
This is the whole problem with identity politics. It focuses everything on the wrong things all the time. I think if Ta-Nehisi Coates, this guy who gets all these awards and prizes for writing that we need to have reparations for black people, and I thought, Does Ta-Nehisi Coates ever wonder why white people are giving him awards for that? 
Reparations makes white elites feel great, but it doesn’t do a damn thing to make black children more competitive with white elite children. Doesn&#8217;t do a d*** thing for that. It’s not gonna change that equation in any way, shape, or form. So for white elites, it&#8217;s a win-win. They get to feel guilty without doing any kind of penance, and it&#8217;s not going to hurt their kids in the job market when black kids get an actual education and are not being shot at and actually rise up and become competitive in the marketplace. So it&#8217;s like, that&#8217;s why they give Ta-Nehisi Coates money, because identity politics takes your attention away from the things that are real. &#8230;
Let&#8217;s just take one look at Pete Buttigieg apologizing for being gay, but not gay enough. 
<blockquote>BUTTIGIEG: I&#8217;m very mindful of the fact that my experience as a gay man, but as a white cisgender gay man, means that there are dimensions — for example, of what it&#8217;s like to be a black trans woman — that I do not personally understand. But I also think that diversity within the LGBTQ-plus community is part of what we have to offer right now. Our country is so torn apart, we&#8217;re so fragmented, and here we have the LGBTQ-plus world that is everywhere. We are in every state, every community, whether folks realize it or not in every family, and that means we can also have the power to build bridges. </blockquote>
Does this strike you like the Democrats have built bridges? Does it strike you that they&#8217;re bringing people together? Or does it strike you that we&#8217;re all on each other&#8217;s at each other&#8217;s throats because of this identity politics? The thing about progressivism, is that it has to progress. So you&#8217;re never woke enough. There&#8217;s absolutely no reward for being woke, because they&#8217;re progressing. [If you] didn&#8217;t progressive, three seconds later you&#8217;ve got [something] to apologize for. A year ago Pete Buttigieg was a minority. He was a poor, abused, gay guy and now he&#8217;s got to apologize because he&#8217;s cisgender, h&#8217;s not gay enough. 
I mean, that is the way this always this progressivism always works, and it privileges the young. It privileges the most ignorant, stupid, foolish people among us — the young, who don&#8217;t know anything, who haven&#8217;t lived. You don&#8217;t have the experience, they&#8217;re always going to be more progressive, they&#8217;re always going to progressed beyond the older people, so the older people always have to listen to the young, which is always a mistake. 
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KLAVAN: You’ll Never Be Woke Enough For Progressives

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Progressives, once enamored with South Bend mayor-turned-2020 Democratic contender, Pete Buttigieg, are turning on the second-tier candidates, including Buttigieg, amid concerns that he and the also-rans will be gunning for potential frontrunner Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) in Tuesday night&#8217;s debate.
Buttigieg has done little to dispell the notion that all guns will be turned on the Massachusetts Senator in the third Democratic debate. In an ad, released Monday evening, Buttigieg called out his far-left rivals for their commitment to &#8220;Medicare for All,&#8221; <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/15/politics/pete-buttigieg-medicare-for-all-ad-elizabeth-warren-bernie-sanders/index.html">according to a report from CNN</a>.
&#8220;The ad &#8212; titled &#8220;Makes More Sense&#8221; &#8212; highlights Buttigieg&#8217;s Medicare for All Who Want It health care plan, a middle-of-the-road approach that would not force people onto government health coverage but would offer a public option for people who choose to enroll,&#8221; CNN says. &#8220;That is a key distinction between Buttigieg&#8217;s plan and the sweeping overhaul that would be instituted under a full Medicare for All program.&#8221;
In the ad, Buttigieg specifically calls out Warren and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) for their pie-in-the-sky health plans, pointing out the shocking cost of nationalized health insurance, both in terms of tax dollars and in terms of lost private insurace plans.
It&#8217;s a shrewd calculation. CNN claims that Democrats who currently describe themselves as &#8220;undecided&#8221; view health care as a top priority. Buttigieg wants to grab that marketshare before it falls in line with one of the three frontrunners (Sanders, Warren, and former Vice President Joe Biden). If he does, he could be a real contender in a place like Iowa, where he&#8217;s running just five points behind Warren and eight points behind Biden. He&#8217;s also creeping up in fundraising, raising just a few million less than Warren in the second quarter of 2019.
That&#8217;s obviously enough to be threatening to Warren, who seems to have called out the attack dogs. <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/465738-progressives-fume-at-buttigieg-warn-him-not-to-attack-warren-at-debate">The Hill reports</a> that prominent progressive groups like the Progressive Change Campaign Committee are issuing thinly veiled threats to Buttigieg, warning him to back off attacks on far-left candidates.
“It’s sad to see the potential self destruction of @PeteButtigieg, a rising star,” Adam Green, cofounder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, Tweeted late Monday. “Tuesday will be a key trajectory moment. Does he attack the next President of The United States or take the high road and make positive waves by adding his unique voice to progressive issues of the day?”
Worse for Warren, Buttigieg spent Monday attacking her pledge not to accept cash from so-called &#8220;big money&#8221; donors, calling the move shortsighted in light of how difficult besting President Donald Trump is likely to be.
&#8220;My competitors can go with whatever strategy they like, but we&#8217;re going to make sure that we have the resources to compete because we are going up against the sitting president of the United States,” Buttigieg told a Snapchat forum. “He has tremendous amounts of support and allies at his back, and we&#8217;re not going to beat him with pocket change. I&#8217;m proud of the fact that we have more than half a million individuals who&#8217;ve supported my campaign. Some of it&#8217;s chipping in three bucks; some of it&#8217;s a lot more. I think you need the full spectrum of support in order to compete, especially if we want to go against someone like Donald Trump.&#8221;
That paints Buttigieg as more realistic than his progressive competition &#8212; something that could hit home with undecided Democrats in Tuesday&#8217;s debate.

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