Democratic hopefuls scramble as New Hampshire primary nears
Saying “reports of my death are premature,” former Vice President Joe Biden stepped up his criticism Saturday of Pete Buttigieg, as the Democratic campaign here intensified in advance of Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary.
“I’ve kept my mouth shut for a long time. I haven’t responded at all — at all,” he said. But, he said, “when you get attacked, you gotta respond.” On Saturday, however, he denied he was giving up on the state, insisting that “I’m going to campaign like hell here in New Hampshire as I’m going to do in Nevada and South Carolina and beyond. Look, this is just getting going here. This is a marathon. This is just getting going.”
Phillips called himself a “soft supporter” of the young candidate, saying Buttigieg’s appearances on cable TV had impressed him. “Bernie is a crabby old man,” she said, adding that she didn’t vote for him in 2016 “because he doesn’t play well with others, and the way things are working in the Senate, the last thing we need is someone who doesn’t play well with others.”
After her failed effort, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell noted with asperity that, despite being warned that she was breaking the rules, “nevertheless, she persisted” — a condemnation that has become an unofficial slogan for Warren, embroidered on throw pillows, emblazoned on T-shirts and tattooed on bodies. The words drew a roar from the crowd of roughly 700 when she repeated them.
“Billionaires by the dozens are contributing to Pete Buttigieg’s campaign. I like him. He is a smart guy,” Sanders said. “But if you are serious about political change in America, that change is not going to be coming from someone who is getting a lot of money from CEOs of the pharmaceutical industry.”
Biden, who had disappeared from the trail on Thursday and Friday until the debate, brought the more aggressive tone that he showed on the stage to both his news conference and an earlier get-out-the-vote rally in Manchester at which he linked his political challenge in New Hampshire to the multiple tragedies in his life — the death of his first wife and his daughter in a car accident in 1972 and the more recent death of his son Beau.
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