Trump campaign works to slow down Buttigieg and maintain Democratic disarray
by Rob Crilly
| February 15, 2020 12:00 AM
The Trump campaign is warning union workers they risk losing their health plans if Pete Buttigieg becomes president, seeking to drive a wedge between the high-flying former mayor and a key bloc of Democratic primary voters.
The messaging appears part of a plan to target front-runners, sow discord, and elongate a fractious nomination process.
“The Democrats are doing it to themselves,†said a person close to the Trump campaign, “but it doesn’t hurt if we do a little bit of trolling as well.â€
Talking points emailed to supporters in the early-primary state of Nevada question Buttigieg’s claims that his healthcare policy would not kill off union workers’ insurance plans. The issue has erupted in the state during the past week as the powerful culinary union criticized Bernie Sanders’s Medicare for All plan as an attack on their hard-won insurance plan.
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