Pete Buttigieg has been surging in Iowa and New Hampshire polls — but his rivals pretty much left him alone at the DemDebate
Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images As is often the case, Politico nicely summed up the conventional wisdom about the fifth presidential candidates’ debate in Atlanta:
Buttigieg, after all, has been surging in Iowa and New Hampshire polls, and is reportedly drawing support from the previous candidate-on-fire Elizabeth Warren, while cutting off oxygen to a passel of low-polling candidates yearning to be the centrist-alternative-to-Biden. And Biden himself has to fear that the shadowy but powerful group of donors and opinion-leaders who have been frantically looking for a Plan B to his own self will decide Mayor Pete will work just fine.
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