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WEST DES MOINES, Iowa — Choosing up on a line of assault he first launched Saturday, former Mayor Pete Buttigieg instructed to voters right here, with out naming him, that it could be too dangerous to appoint Senator Bernie Sanders to face off in opposition to President Trump.
Mr. Buttigieg first known as Mr. Sanders “a danger we are able to’t take” in a fund-raising attraction Saturday. Throughout a Sunday rally at Maple Grove Elementary College right here, he went after Mr. Sanders once more.
“We can’t run the danger of attempting to defeat this president with the identical Washington political warfare mentality that introduced us so far,” he mentioned. “It’s time for one thing new, it’s time for one thing totally different and it’s time to show the web page.”
Mr. Buttigieg, who’s spending the ultimate days of his Iowa marketing campaign making a case for his personal electability, instructed Mr. Sanders’s left-wing politics and pledge to prepare supporters to push his agenda as president weren’t the prescription the nation wanted.
“The nation will likely be crying out for a president able to unifying and therapeutic the American folks,” he mentioned. “It gained’t be sufficient to only say, ‘Let’s get collectively,’ we’re going to should get collectively and do one thing, quick.”
When he spoke with reporters after his rally, Mr. Buttigieg drew a distinction with Mr. Sanders that alluded to Mr. Sanders’s expertise within the fight of Washington politics.
“We have to flip the web page on the political mind-set that bought us right here,” he mentioned. “We’ve got a chance to decide on each unity and boldness.”
DES MOINES — It’s the ultimate dash in Iowa, however with three prime candidates spending much of the past week in Washington as jurors for President Trump’s impeachment trial, televisions right here in Iowa have been inundated with political advertisements to assist present air cowl on this bifurcated political second.
Over the previous week, Democratic candidates have spent over $3.5 million within the 4 primary Iowa tv markets, based on Promoting Analytics, an advert monitoring agency. Greater than $four million is booked via caucus day, although that’s prone to change as candidates make their remaining arguments on air.
Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont has been rotating closely between two advertisements in Iowa over the previous week, one promoting his record on women’s rights, together with points like abortion entry and making youngster care inexpensive, and another ad calling for a Sanders-brand of unity, asking folks to “struggle for another person as a lot as you’d struggle for your self.”
His advert specializing in ladies’s rights started airing after his public argument with Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts over whether or not Mr. Sanders as soon as mentioned a lady couldn’t win the presidency.
The marketing campaign has spent greater than $464,000 on advertisements in Iowa prior to now week.
Ms. Warren additionally has two advertisements in heavy rotation, spending greater than $450,000 on advertisements in Iowa final week.
She is evenly cut up between an ad showcasing her large crowds and endless selfie lines, as she repeats her marketing campaign mantra — “massive, structural change” — and an advert making the case that President Trump is most afraid of facing Ms. Warren in the general election.
Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, who can be participating within the impeachment trial, is spending about half as a lot as Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren.
Her primary advert is a rehash of her 100-day plan. The advert, tapping into the candidate’s humorousness, options Ms. Klobuchar breathlessly itemizing all the coverage targets she has for the primary 100 days of her administration, and runs out of time earlier than she will be able to end the phrase “inexpensive housing.”
WEST DES MOINES — Former Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind., mentioned he was “shocked” about Kobe Bryant’s dying, which he realized about after a marketing campaign occasion at Maple Grove Elementary College right here.
“That is somebody who affected so many followers and supporters,” he mentioned. “After all we’ll be considering of not simply his household however everybody who’s going to be impacted and in mourning.”
Requested what he would bear in mind most about Mr. Bryant, Mr. Buttigieg replied, “I imply, clearly, on the courtroom, what he did as a rare athlete.”
Then he informed a narrative about his father. “Of us develop up wanting as much as our sports activities heroes, and you recognize, my father was a fan of Manchester United,” he mentioned. “His loyalty to that workforce actually cemented in a tragic crash that killed various these athletes when he was a baby. It might probably impact folks for the remainder of their lives when any person that they really feel a reference to, even with out having met them, is misplaced too quickly.”
In 1958, a aircraft carrying the Manchester United soccer workforce crashed shortly after taking off from the…