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Can Pete Buttigieg position himself as the sensible alternative to Biden and Warren?

LEBANON, N.H. - As other presidential candidates promise free health care, college debt relief and sweeping new taxes on the ultra-rich, Pete Buttigieg is drawing large crowds with a different angle.

"This will be a presidency where you can turn on the news, look at the White House and feel your blood pressure go down a little bit instead of up through the roof," the South Bend, Ind., mayor told some 1,300 voters who came out to see him here Saturday.

With many Democrats growing anxious that an uncompromising progressive at the top of the ticket could push swing states into President Trump's hands, the bookish 37-year-old Navy veteran and former McKinsey

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