“The point is, one of the reasons I was picked to be vice president is because Online Cigarettes Store USA of my relationship, long-standing relationship with the black community,” Biden said. “I was part of that coalition.”
Before the debate, political observers predicted that South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who has enjoyed Newport 100s Box surge in polling, especially in Iowa and New Hampshire, would be the main target of his rivals. But by and large the other candidates, and the moderators — Rachel Maddow, Andrea Mitchell and Kristen Welker of MSNBC and Ashley Parker of the Washington Post — treated him gingerly. Sen. Amy Klobuchar declined to repeat a charge she had made earlier this month that a woman with Buttigieg’s relatively slim political résumé as the mayor of a medium-size city wouldn’t have qualified for the debate.
“First of all, I have made very clear that I think Pete is qualified to be on this stage, and I am honored to be standing next to him,” Klobuchar said, “but what I said was true: Women are held to a higher standard.”
Klobuchar did later refer to Buttigieg as a “local official,” comparing his office as mayor with her position as a U.S. senator. Harris also chose to let Buttigieg off the hook when asked about his dismal polling among black voters, choosing not to capitalize on the controversy around his Douglass Plan to help African-Americans. The one candidate who did go after Buttigieg was Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, who implied, inaccurately, that he had proposed Cheap Newport 100s cigarettes sending U.S. troops to Mexico to combat drug and gang violence.