As they head into Thursday's debate, Pete Buttigieg and Beto O'Rourke are trying to recapture the early excitement of their early campaign days.
When the 2020 Democratic presidential candidateslast weekend, Beto O’Rourke returned to the campus where just months earlier he’d packed hundreds onto multiple floors of Keene State College’s red-bricked student center.
Democratic 2020 presidential candidate and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg greets supporters before the New Hampshire Democratic Party state convention in Manchester, New Hampshire on Sept. 7, 2019.Two boyish Democrats from conservative states with their eyes on the Oval Office, Buttigieg and O’Rourke both once took the political scene by storm, offering a fresh face and innovative tactics in a field dominated by septuagenarians and longtime Washington denizens.
His new strategy includes abandoning the typical laser-like focus on Iowa and New Hampshire in favor of a guerilla-style campaign aimed at non-traditional voters in unlikely places. In the wake of a devastating mass shooting in his hometown of El Paso, Texas, O’Rourke has sought to reorient his campaign squarely around the issue of gun control, hoping that if he can’t stand above his competitors, at least he can stand apart.Buttigieg’s challenge is more difficult to diagnose.
“Maybe something to do with age, experience, not knowing enough about him,” Ewinger said of the millenial mayor after hearing his stump speech for the first time in Burlington, Iowa. Although undecided, she added: “All they have to do is come listen to him live and they can see that he can take on Trump.”
Eager to dispel the notion that he’s peaked, Buttigieg’s aides have cast his current interlude away from the limelight as part of the plan all along.
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