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Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Bernie Sanders \u2014 who finished neck-and-neck in last week\u2019s Iowa caucuses \u2014 traded barbs during dueling appearances on Sunday news shows, just two days before New Hampshire holds its primary election.<\/p>\n
Sanders boasted of his grassroots fundraising prowess, while claiming Buttigieg is beholden to billionaire donors.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re going to contrast our views with Mayor Buttigieg. And one of the areas of contrast, to be honest with you, is that last count he has about 40 billionaires who are contributing to his campaign, the heads of \u2014 the CEOs of the large pharmaceutical industries and the insurance companies and so forth,\u201d the Vermont senator said on CBS\u2019 \u201cFace the Nation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Buttigieg, the 38-year-old the former mayor of South Bend, Ind., noted that the Sanders campaign hauled in $25 million in January.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, Bernie\u2019s pretty rich, and I would happily accept a contribution from him,\u201d Buttigieg said on CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd, by the way, my campaign is where it is because hundreds of thousands of individuals, no corporate PACs, individuals, have contributed through PeteforAmerica.com,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m the mayor of South Bend. It\u2019s not like that\u2019s an establishment fund-raising powerhouse. We were able to get here by putting together a movement. And that movement is the one that is going to turn the page, bring an end to the Trump presidency.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sanders\u2019 January take came from 1.3 million donations from 648,000 people.<\/p>\n
He and Buttigieg emerged from the problem-plagued vote in Iowa as the leading contenders in New Hampshire, and a CNN tracking poll released Sunday showed Sanders polling at 28 percent to Buttigieg\u2019s 21 percent.<\/p>\n
Rounding out the field before Tuesday\u2019s vote are Joe Biden at 12 percent, Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts with 9 percent, Sen. Amy Klobuchar at 6 percent and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard with 5 percent.<\/p>\n
Biden, who came in fourth in Iowa, lashed out at Buttigieg\u2019s inexperience and Sanders\u2019 identity as a democratic socialist.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou gonna win in North Carolina? You gonna win in Pennsylvania? You gonna win in those states? In the Midwest?\u201d Biden said on ABC\u2019s \u201cThis Week.\u201d \u201cI didn\u2019t put the label on Bernie. Bernie calls himself a Democratic socialist.\u201d<\/p>\n
The former vice president said Buttigieg is a \u201cgood guy\u201d but that\u2019s not enough.<\/p>\n
\u201cI like him and he\u2019s a smart guy \u2014 but he\u2019s been the mayor of a city smaller than the city we\u2019re in now,\u201d Biden said in in the interview from Manchester, NH.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd so what has he done? What has \u2014 who has \u2014 he pulled together? Does he know any of the foreign leaders?\u201d<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Warren, who finished third in Iowa, insisted she doesn\u2019t have to finish among the top two in neighboring New Hampshire to be successful.<\/p>\n
\u201cLook, the way I see this is it\u2019s going to be a long campaign \u2026 we\u2019ve built a campaign to go the distance,\u201d she said on ABC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n