Elizabeth Warren Seemed Stunned After Attack by Pete Buttigieg During Debate

By David Kamioner | December 19, 2019

The knives came out during the sixth Democratic primary debate on Thursday night — this one held in Los Angeles — as Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, came under fire from the very candidate from whom he’s stealing votes in Iowa, Sen. Elizabeth Sanders (D-Mass.).

The subject was fundraisers.

Warren hit him with a cliché binge over his alleged “closed-door,” “wine-cave” fundraisers filled with “rich people in smoke-filled rooms.”

Buttigieg struck back with a vengeance.

He tossed off that he was the only candidate on the stage who was “not a millionaire or billionaire” — including Warren in that group. And he castigated Warren for “purity tests we can’t pass” after he revealed that up until very recently, she was raising money from the very people she said he’s now taking campaign donations from.

Buttigieg clearly won the exchange — and left Warren sucking air in yet another futile effort at portraying herself as an “everyday working American,” not as an extremist, left-wing Ivy League law professor who got her job through race hustling. (Remember her awkward beer-drinking episode on video?)

When they took a moment’s breath, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) tried to horn in with odd, alphabetically defined talking points.

Although the audience gave her some shout-outs, Klobuchar made her nervous-seeming comments in a grating pitch and annoying manner.

Warren, for her part, tried to re-engage and almost accused Buttigieg of corruption by saying she didn’t “sell access to my time” in response to his defense.

But it was too little, too late.

She was a spent force by then, arms wildly flailing under the klieg lights, physically showcasing her sad attempt to grasp at any little thing to get her out of the argument.

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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), from whom Buttigieg is also taking support in Iowa, tried to get a shot in at Buttigieg.

But he chimed in after the debate on the point was over, essentially.

These exchanges took up just several minutes in the larger debate, but they were indicative of the tension between Warren and Buttigieg. And it won’t be the last testy exchange in the primary season between them, as she tries to claw back voters who have switched to the young mayor in Iowa and elsewhere.

This piece originally appeared in LifeZette and is used by permission.

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60 thoughts on “Elizabeth Warren Seemed Stunned After Attack by Pete Buttigieg During Debate”

  1. good, good, keep the infighting going on, pretty soon, you will all be at each others throats. the dark side embraces you and want you to completely come over to it.

  2. good, good, keep the infighting going on, pretty soon, you will all be at each others throats. the dark side embraces you and want you to completely come over to it.

  3. Sen. Elizabeth Sanders (D-Mass.). Last line in 1st paragraph.
    This is what I was commenting on, not that she got attacked in the debate. She and Bernie get secretly married?

  4. My guess is that there is blood in the water and that is why you all missed that I was the first one to post and you missed reading the article. Read the last sentence of the first paragraph. Come on people pay attention to what you are reading. This one was funny

  5. My guess is that there is blood in the water and that is why you all missed that I was the first one to post and you missed reading the article. Read the last sentence of the first paragraph. Come on people pay attention to what you are reading. This one was funny

  6. My guess is that there is blood in the water and that is why you all missed that I was the first one to post and you missed reading the article. Read the last sentence of the first paragraph. Come on people pay attention to what you are reading. This one was funny

  7. My guess is that there is blood in the water and that is why you all missed that I was the first one to post and you missed reading the article. Read the last sentence of the first paragraph. Come on people pay attention to what you are reading. This one was funny

  8. Warren started the fight but found out quickly that instead of being Sitting Bull she was Custer and Mayor Pete was the victorious Lakota. And he doesn’t even claim to be a Native American.

  9. Warren started the fight but found out quickly that instead of being Sitting Bull she was Custer and Mayor Pete was the victorious Lakota. And he doesn’t even claim to be a Native American.

  10. Not totally true,,,,,,,,there is Andrew Yang who does consistently say that throwing dirt at President Trump doesn’t get any thing done. I can not see him being either President or Vice President but after Trump’s re-election I could see him working with President Trump to get things done. He is at least looking at the problems and trying to come up with solutions, which is exactly what will doom him as far as the Democrats are concerned.

  11. Actually there are 15 still trying to be nominated to be defeated by President Trump in 2020. Thirteen have dropped out and there are at least 12 still on the sidelines trying to make up their minds(?). To GoldTree What? There is no rule limiting how often someone can run either for the nomination or for the Office of the President. As for failed [again] wannabe president Hillary, her standard is that she doesn’t violate laws that she thinks pertain to her. In other words, “rules, we don’t need no stinking rules”.

  12. Actually there are 15 still trying to be nominated to be defeated by President Trump in 2020. Thirteen have dropped out and there are at least 12 still on the sidelines trying to make up their minds(?). To GoldTree What? There is no rule limiting how often someone can run either for the nomination or for the Office of the President. As for failed [again] wannabe president Hillary, her standard is that she doesn’t violate laws that she thinks pertain to her. In other words, “rules, we don’t need no stinking rules”.

  13. I’m pointing out that both candidates were campaigning in September 2015 for the 2016 election. This is three months later for the 2020 election and there is no Democrat candidate yet. There are nine people trying to become the Democrat choice and the leaders are useless. If yesterday’s SNL performance (debate) was any indication we will be voting before they make their choice.

  14. Within a week of Warren being sworn in as senator from MA she was in California raising money from liberal elites. She has no room to diss anyone! She is a liar period!

  15. John Lloyd Scharf

    There is blood in the water, they think, from the Trump Impeachment. Therefore, they can rip each other apart without damaging an election they assume any Democrat will win.

    If they go after Trump it is just practice for each other and to prove to each other he means nothing to them.

    My assumption is Democrats live in an alternative reality where Trump is actually wrong and all the good he has done was an after-effect of the “wonderful Obama Administration where there were no mistakes and no drama.”

  16. So STILL ….
    They are not there to do BETTER than Trump …
    They are all running their campaigns “To beat Trump” …

    No explaining policy of any kind … Same old Democrat fodder:
    “We should do this, we need that, this should be better, that’s
    a real crime, we cannot do this anymore, it’s terrible”, and on and on …
    If any Republican ran like that, he or she would be a joke, and never win anything … Except maybe Romney, he got close … But with him, Obama just acted more charming … That’s it! And you can’t “dis” the bro … You will be labeled about 7 different names …

    I never hear what they are going to do better?
    And that’s because Democrats are “salespeople”, not people
    who get stuff done in politics and government …

    Has anyone watched Fox News,when they show the clips of the day?
    And all of the media stations, and all of the Democratic candidates and government employees are using the same exact words, phrases or talking points? I’m telling you, it is the party of do-nothing people, and salespeople.

    The part that cracks me up the most, is the Democrat voters actually believe them or buy what they are saying … Hard to believe …

    I would know better than most, because I have been one for 40 years …

  17. So STILL ….
    They are not there to do BETTER than Trump …
    They are all running their campaigns “To beat Trump” …

    No explaining policy of any kind … Same old Democrat fodder:
    “We should do this, we need that, this should be better, that’s
    a real crime, we cannot do this anymore, it’s terrible”, and on and on …
    If any Republican ran like that, he or she would be a joke, and never win anything … Except maybe Romney, he got close … But with him, Obama just acted more charming … That’s it! And you can’t “dis” the bro … You will be labeled about 7 different names …

    I never hear what they are going to do better?
    And that’s because Democrats are “salespeople”, not people
    who get stuff done in politics and government …

    Has anyone watched Fox News,when they show the clips of the day?
    And all of the media stations, and all of the Democratic candidates and government employees are using the same exact words, phrases or talking points? I’m telling you, it is the party of do-nothing people, and salespeople.

    The part that cracks me up the most, is the Democrat voters actually believe them or buy what they are saying … Hard to believe …

    I would know better than most, because I have been one for 40 years …

  18. Anyone else remember Hillary beginning her campaign in September 2015 ? She announced running in April but started campaigning later. It’s now December and there are still 9 Democrats vying for the DNC candidate of the 2020 election. That certainly was not a debate yesterday it was another episode of SNL.

  19. Anyone else remember Hillary beginning her campaign in September 2015 ? She announced running in April but started campaigning later. It’s now December and there are still 9 Democrats vying for the DNC candidate of the 2020 election. That certainly was not a debate yesterday it was another episode of SNL.

  20. Looked into Pelosi’ son, John Kerry’s step son, Mitt Romney’s son and James Biden’s (Joe’s brother) no bid $ 1.5 billion US government contract to construct houses in Iraq. He knew nothing about construction before the contract.

  21. Looked into Pelosi’ son, John Kerry’s step son, Mitt Romney’s son and James Biden’s (Joe’s brother) no bid $ 1.5 billion US government contract to construct houses in Iraq. He knew nothing about construction before the contract.

  22. see, just sit back and let them do the work.. before next Nov. it’ll all come out. Unless Pigosi or Shiffty need to dig a bigger hole?? btw look into Paul Pelosi.

  23. see, just sit back and let them do the work.. before next Nov. it’ll all come out. Unless Pigosi or Shiffty need to dig a bigger hole?? btw look into Paul Pelosi.

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