Less than a week after Pete Buttigieg’s strong performance in the first primary for the Democratic presidential candidacy, former US Vice President Joe Biden directly attacks the young ex-mayor.
In a video clip, the 77-year-old Biden highlighted his political successes as Vice of the then President Barack Obamas on Saturday and portrayed the 38-year-old Buttigieg as an inexperienced local politician. So far, Biden and other Democratic presidential applicants had been reluctant to bite negative advertising about each other.
Former Mayor Pete doesn’t think very highly of the Obama-Biden record. Let’s compare. pic.twitter.com/132TB7MHaq
– Joe Biden (Text Join to 30330) (@JoeBiden) February 8, 2020
While Biden helped boost the economy and solve international crises, Buttigieg, as mayor of South Bend, Indiana, took care of “decorative lanterns” and “revitalizing sidewalks,” the clip said. Biden’s successes are accompanied in the video with dramatic music, Buttigieg’s with childish music.
Buttigieg’s spokesman Chris Meagher said on Twitter that it was his success in reviving a tumbling city and his experience as a former soldier that made him a good president. Biden’s new video only underlines how badly his campaign is doing, he continued.
The moderate candidate Buttigieg surprisingly emerged as the winner in the Iowa state code last Monday, just ahead of leftist Senator Bernie Sanders.
The Biden, which is also considered moderate, and which has long been in the lead in national surveys, came in a disappointing fourth place. Buttigieg is also given good chances in New Hampshire, where voting will take place on Tuesday. Biden had already criticized the former mayor’s lack of experience during a TV debate on Saturday night.
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Created: 2/8/2020, 9:51 PM
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