Buttigieg looked to parry criticism that he lacks the experience necessary to be president, conceding that “if you’re looking for the person with the most years of Washington establishment experience under their belt, you’ve got your candidate, and of course it’s not me.”
“We need a perspective right now,“ he added, citing his credentials as an openly gay man, a former South Bend, Ind., mayor and a veteran, „that will finally allow us to leave the politics of the past in the past, turn the page and bring change to Washington before it’s too late.”
“The politics of the past were not all that bad,” Biden shot back, going on to cycle through his accomplishments, such as the Violence Against Women Act, the $900 billion Recovery Act and his own early support for gay marriage as an elected official.
“So I don’t know what about the past of Barack Obama and Joe Biden was so bad,” Biden added.
Buttigieg conceded that “those achievements were phenomenally important because they met the moment, but now we have to meet this moment, and this moment is different.”
Seizing on that line of defense, Klobuchar recalled that “we had a moment the last few weeks, Mayor, and that moment was these impeachment hearings.”
She said she saw a lot of courage from her Senate colleagues who took tough votes.
“But what you said, Pete, as you were campaigning through Iowa as three of us were jurors in that impeachment hearing, you said it was exhausting to watch and that you wanted to turn the channel and watch cartoons,” Klobuchar said. “We have a newcomer in the White House and look where it got us. I think having some experience is a good thing.”
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