Opinion: The challenge that comes with top-tier status
By Jennifer Rubin Jennifer Rubin Opinion writer covering politics and policy, foreign and domestic Email Bio Follow Opinion writer April 14 at 12:00 PM You don’t have to tell former vice president Joe Biden that the incoming fire increases dramatically the higher you are in the polls. He’s not even in the race, but nevertheless some well-timed complaints surfaced regarding his hugginess.
Now it is South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg who will face the acid test. He’s risen dramatically in polls and now sits in third place in recent polls in Iowa and New Hampshire. He continues to impress voters and the media with his erudite answers on a range of policy issues and thoughtful remarks on faith. He’s managed to zoom ahead of a host of better-known competitors including several senators and Beto O’Rourke, who has suffered by comparison to Buttigieg. .
Finally, he’s going to need to resist the entreaties of the left wing of his party to go the route of Bernie Sanders’s Medicare-for-all. So far Buttigieg has walked a tightrope, neither throwing his lot in with the self-described socialist nor ruling out an eventual single payer system. He’s spoken favorably about a reparations commission but avoided endorsing a specific plan.
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