At town halls during his latest swing across N.H., Pete Buttigieg name-checked “future former Republicans” in the same breath as “progressives and moderates ... ready for some kind of change”
ROCHESTER, N.H. — As Pete Buttigieg boarded his campaign bus Monday afternoon, a New Hampshire voter stopped him to ask if campaign staffers were hawking “Republicans for Pete” stickers yet.
No candidate has won the state’s primary without also winning a plurality of their party’s voters, said Andy Smith, a pollster at the University of New Hampshire. But “with so many candidates running, the margins for winning become much smaller, so it makes a lot of sense to push for those voters,” Smith said. “Especially if you’re a fresh face.”
Buttigieg is not the only Democrat making this pitch. Biden premised his campaign on winning back Obama-Trump voters in Midwestern states, and Sen. Amy Klobuchar — who said in an interview with POLITICO that she thinks important to “bring in independents and moderate Republicans” into her party — often points to her track record of big electoral wins driven by bipartisan support in Minnesota.
The competition in New Hampshire for those voters declined, too, when Sen. Kamala Harris cut her staff and shut down her offices in the state earlier this month, redirecting those resources to Iowa. But Buttigieg’s campaign is arguably among the best positioned to take advantage of that path because he’s sitting on the most resources, raking in more than $50 million into his campaign. This week, Buttigieg kicked off his first statewide TV ad buy in New Hampshire with a pair of ads that lean on his biography and his Medicare-for-All Who Want It proposal.
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