7 takeaways from Iowa Democrats' biggest night of the year

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7 takeaways from Iowa Democrats' biggest night of the year
By Eric Bradner and Dan Merica, CNN
Updated 3:46 AM ET, Sat November 2, 2019


Des Moines (CNN)Ninety-four days from the Iowa caucuses, the Democratic presidential contenders each got 12 minutes to try to impress likely voters on the state party's biggest night of the year.

The Iowa Democratic Party's Liberty and Justice Celebration -- the renamed former Jefferson-Jackson Dinner -- once helped launch then-Sen. Barack Obama ahead of Hillary Clinton in the lead-up to the 2008 Iowa Democratic caucuses.

Now, 12 years later, candidates sought their own breakout moments. On Friday, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg showed why they've been steadily rising in the polls, bringing the most supporters and delivering the clearest arguments of the night.

Buttigieg offered an optimistic vision for a post-Trump America. He said he had "seen in the dust of a war zone Americans who have nothing in common besides the flags on our shoulders learn to trust each other with our lives" and "seen in the ruins of factories, my city answer those who said we were a dying community by rising up together to build a better future."

Warren, meanwhile, was the most aggressive in taking on other Democrats -- delivering perhaps the night's most memorable line.

"I'm not running some consultant-driven campaign with some vague ideas that are designed not to offend anyone," she said.

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https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/02/politics/iowa-democratic-dinner-takeaways/index.html

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1. Cillizza said Warren took a shot at Mayor Pete

with her reference to a " consultant-driven campaign with vague ideas ...designed not to offend anyone" …… I had no idea which candidate Warren was talking about until Cillizza pointed out it was a reference to Buttigieg ……... CNN called this barb the most memorable line of the night ...It must have been a long and quite unmemorable night ….

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2. Is it memorable solely because it's a swipe at another Democratic candidate?

I thought this line was pretty memorable myself.

"You must be the wave that helps us rewrite the rules of the 21st century economy - to work for us, to work for you, the people of this country."