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Everybody vs. Pete

Surging in the polls, the young mayor found himself under siege at tonight’s debate from rivals who belittled his relative lack of experience.
Source: Lucas Jackson / Reuters

Tonight was Pete Buttigieg’s turn to experience the unique treatment a front-runner receives during a presidential-primary debate.

Buttigieg’s Democratic rivals greeted the co-winner of the Iowa caucuses with a pile-on as the race shifted to New Hampshire. Multiple candidates onstage belittled his relative lack of governing experience as the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana.

“We have a newcomer in the White

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