Buttigieg knocks Warren for trying to impose a donor 'purity test'

Pete Buttigieg fired back at an attack from Elizabeth Warren the previous day, dismissing her criticism of his fundraising practices as a trivial 'process purity test' while pointing to her recent shift on the issue

one of her sharpest attacks yet on Buttigieg and former Vice President Joe Biden as they all jostle for the top spot in a fluid Democratic primary.Warren slammed the South Bend mayor, whose rise in the polls in Iowa and New Hampshire has coincided with her own slippage, for offering his biggest donors “regular phone calls and special access.”

Warren has made radically diminishing the influence of money on politics a key plank of her campaign, taking relatively drastic measures to underscore her anti-corruption pledge.swear off traditional high-dollar fundraisers Buttigieg’s clap-back is the latest salvo in a war of words between the two candidates as the primary heats up in its final stretch before votes are cast. The escalated sniping over the past few weeksin a series of tit-for-tat disclosures from each campaign as they attempted to scramble out from under accusations of a lack of transparency.

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