If Mr. Buttigieg is to win right here Tuesday, he may have overcome not simply Mr. Biden’s assault but in addition indicators of political momentum
If Mr. Buttigieg is to win right here Tuesday, he may have overcome not simply Mr. Biden’s assault but in addition indicators of political momentum for Ms. Klobuchar, who appeared to have gained some converts at her Saturday rallies following her assured debate efficiency. And the previous mayor will even have to resist direct assaults from Mr. Sanders, whose marketing campaign has shifted its fireplace away from Mr. Biden and educated its sights on Mr. Buttigieg.
Addressing supporters in Dover, close to New Hampshire’s shoreline, earlier than they went out for afternoon door-knocking, Mr. Sanders attacked Mr. Buttigieg by title.
“Billionaires by the dozen are contributing to Pete Buttigieg’s marketing campaign,” stated Mr. Sanders, who usually doesn’t use his stump speech to lash his Democratic opponents.
“Now, I like Pete, he’s a sensible man, he’s a pleasant man,” he continued. “But when we’re severe about political change in America, that change just isn’t going to be coming from any person who will get some huge cash from the C.E.O.s of the pharmaceutical trade.”
However Mr. Buttigieg wasn’t the one extra reasonable Democrat Mr. Sanders took on in his remarks — he additionally invoked “the previous mayor of New York” and recommended that Mr. Bloomberg is searching for “to purchase an election” by pouring tons of of thousands and thousands of {dollars} from his private fortune into the race.
Mr. Bloomberg, although, was removed from the snowy New Hampshire marketing campaign path. He isn’t contesting the normal early states.
Whereas Mr. Sanders was deriding his self-funding, Mr. Bloomberg was in Washington addressing Democratic governors, a constituency that has been watching the social gathering’s more and more heated main with rising despair.
Ms. Warren, for her half, didn’t dwell on rivals on Saturday, focusing as an alternative on encouraging her supporters to prove to vote on Tuesday and assist her obtain a stronger exhibiting than her third-place end in Iowa.
Thomas Kaplan contributed reporting from Manchester, N.H., and Nick Corasaniti from Hanover.