Pete Buttigieg campaign ad: "Makes More Sense"

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5. Lis Smith - Campaign not going negative?

“I witnessed the 2004 primary and the dynamics there with Gephardt and Dean,” Smith said, “and I think that any presidential campaign that doesn’t understand a multiway primary and how [going negative] will affect their long-term standing is probably not going to be the campaign that will take on Donald Trump.”

Buttigieg’s decision not to go negative is a tactic. Sometimes an apparently second-tier figure can stand aside while their rivals destroy one another, and step past them, as Kerry did in 2004.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/henrygomez/pete-buttigieg-2020-campaign-phase