DUers have made Mayor Pete the #2 overall choice

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51. Don't underestimate Trump's ability to ding people for things that incriminate himself...

We still don’t know enough about Buttigieg (or his policies) to know how all the attacks will come down, but I definitely can see many possible avenues. Some of those positives can easily be turned into negatives (e.g., speaking foreign languages as ‘smarter than you, elite snob, aloof, arrogant, catering to foreigners’).

I’ve already seen the Right showing comparisons of his New Yorker cover with the movie poster of the 40-Year-Old-Virgin. Fallon had a skit last night poking fun of his youth as being from his “hit series, ‘The Boy Who Became Mayor’ only on Disney Channel.” It’s not a stretch that he could get caricatured as some Dothraki-speaking, avocado-toast-loving goober.

It’s important to know how well he can take a punch. Can he punch back? Does Trump paint him as a weenie if he decides to take the high road and not get in the mud?

No one should forget how the GOP swift-boated John Kerry. There doesn’t have to be anything true or fair about it.