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Just in from Emerson Polling: A new 7 News/Emerson College Poll of New Hampshire Democratic primary voters finds Sen. Bernie Sanders maintaining his lead with 23% of the vote, followed by former Mayor Pete Buttigieg at 18%, former V.P. Joe Biden and Sen. Elizabeth Warren at 14% each and Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar at 10%. Entrepreneur Andrew Yang is at …

CyberScoop reports: The Chief Information Security Officer for Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg’s campaign, Mick Baccio, has resigned. Baccio, who has been with the Buttigieg campaign since last August, told CyberScoop he left because he no longer agreed with the way senior leadership in the campaign was envisioning campaign cybersecurity. “[I left due to] fundamental philosophical differences with the campaign …

Newsweek reports: Protesters disrupted a Pete Buttigieg campaign event on Sunday night as they demonstrated against the former South Bend mayor’s record on housing. The activists chanted “black lives matter” and “anti-poor, anti-black” after the Democratic primary candidate took the stage in Des Moines, Iowa to deliver a speech to supporters. Buttigieg told the protesters he wanted to talk with …

The Hill reports: Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg picked up an endorsement from long-time Iowa Rep. Dave Loebsack (D) on Sunday, less than a month ahead of the state’s first-in-the-nation caucuses. The seven-term congressman touted Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Ind., as a Washington outsider who can help unite the nation. “Pete offers a new kind of leadership …

CNN reports: Iowa’s likely caucusgoers are closely divided between four top candidates just weeks out from the Democratic caucuses, a new CNN/Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll shows. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is on the rise as other top competitors hold steady or lose ground. Sanders (20%), Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren (17%), former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg (16%) and former …

Courthouse News reports: Pete Buttigieg is holding a slight lead among Democratic presidential candidates in New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary, according to a Thursday poll from Monmouth University in what has become a tightened, four-way race. Democratic voters polled 20% for the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, 19% for former Vice President Joe Biden, 18% for Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders …

The Hill reports: FOX News will host a town hall with former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg on January 26th from Des Moines, Iowa. The town hall, which will be moderated by “Fox News Sunday” anchor Chris Wallace, comes one week before the Iowa caucuses. “We are pleased to host Mayor Buttigieg for the second time this election cycle …

This is the flipside of the same poll in which 29% of GOP voters said they’d like to see Trump Junior succeed his father in 2024. In a SurveyMonkey poll for Axios taking a very early look at a theoretical 2024 field, Pete Buttigieg tops a list of Democrats, with a slight advantage over Kamala Harris. Why it matters: A …

The New York Times reports: Pete Buttigieg raised more than $24.7 million in the fourth quarter of 2019, his presidential campaign said on Wednesday, another strong showing that leaves him well positioned to finance a large campaign operation as primary voting approaches. In a display of the breadth of his support, Mr. Buttigieg’s campaign said it had now received more …

The Daily Beast reports: Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg told the Associated Press on Monday that he “would not have wanted to see” a son of his serving on the board of a Ukrainian natural-gas company, like ex-Vice President Joe Biden’s son did. The South Bend, Indiana, mayor (who is childless at present) said if elected, he would “do everything …

Iowa Starting Line reports: Pete Buttigieg is barreling toward an Iowa Caucus victory, and there’s not a damn thing anyone’s tweets can do about it. Buttigieg has seen his crowd sizes in Iowa swell this month, including five separate events with over 1,000 people each. Among those were a statement-making 2,000-person rally in Coralville, right in Iowa’s most liberal county, …

Talking Points Memo reports: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has released a new TV ad targeting Washington corruption and pledging not to sell ambassadorships, a line of attack she leveled against South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D) during Thursday’s primary debate. In the 30-second video spot that was posted Friday to YouTube and is set to air in Iowa, Warren …

The Guardian reports: Pete Buttigieg’s campaign has just announced an endorsement from actor Kevin Costner, who will introduce the presidential candidate at a town hall in Indianola, Iowa, this Sunday. Costner starred in the 1989 movie “Field of Dreams,” which centers on an Iowa corn farmer building a baseball diamond in his fields after hearing a voice saying, “If you …

Politico reports: The simmering feud between Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg the past few weeks had been confined to a tit-for-tat followed mostly by political reporters and political junkies. On Thursday, it spilled into open view before a national audience — and in captivating fashion. In a riveting, minutes-long exchange that punctuated just how much the two leading candidates view …

The Hill reports: South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg has a small lead in a new survey of Iowa, but Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) are close behind. The latest Iowa State University/Civiqs poll finds Buttigieg at 24 percent, followed by Sanders at 21 percent, Warren at 18 percent and former Vice President Joe Biden at 15 …

Politico reports: Mayor Pete Buttigieg on Friday fired back at an attack from Sen. Elizabeth Warren the previous day, dismissing her criticism of his fundraising practices as a trivial “process purity test” while pointing to her recent shift on the issue. “The thing about these purity tests is, the people issuing them can’t even meet them. Right?” Buttigieg said during …

The Hill reports: Pete Buttigieg said Friday that he found it a little unsettling that President Trump is dreaming about him. “It did bother me when he said he dreams about me,” the South Bend, Ind., mayor quipped during a Washington Post Live event. “I don’t know exactly what goes on in this president’s dreams, but I’m certain that I …

New Hampshire’s WBUR reports: A WBUR poll released Wednesday shows that former Vice President Joe Biden and South Bend, Ind. Mayor Pete Buttigieg are in a dead heat in New Hampshire. When asked who’d they vote for if New Hampshire’s Democratic primary was today, 18 percent of likely Democratic voters said Buttigieg, while 17 percent said Biden. Sen. Bernie Sanders …

Politico reports: Pete Buttigieg announced Monday that he will open his private, high-dollar fundraisers to the press and publicly disclose the names of his top financial supporters within the week, amid pressure from Elizabeth Warren. Buttigieg and Warren have traded attacks on campaign transparency in recent days: On Sunday night, Warren announced she earned $1.9 million over decades of corporate …

The Hill reports: Democratic 2020 White House hopefuls Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg are in a statistical dead heat with President Trump among Arizona voters, according to a new poll. In a mock-up general election, Biden has 44 percent support compared to Trump’s 46 percent, according to the OH Predictive Insights poll released Monday. Buttigieg has 43 percent support compared …