Second-Tier Candidates Spar Over Who’s Best On Gun Control

By Cam Edwards

Neither candidate is polling in double digits, and one of them managed a whopping 1% in the latest NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, so Pete Buttigieg and Beto O’Rourke are happy to go after one another over gun control. It’s the most media attention they’ve gotten in weeks, and they’re both hoping it will translate into greater support in the polls. Right now it’s a three way race between Biden, Sanders, and Warren, and neither Buttigieg nor O’Rourke have set the electorate aflame with desire for their candidacies. Why not create some drama to generate some headlines?

Asked in South Carolina about O’Rourke’s recent criticisms, Buttigieg said Tuesday he’s “focused on what we can do right now, because I don’t think we can wait.” He also said he “could care less” how Republicans might react to gun control reforms and that he’s “talking not just about politics, but about governing” and “what we can do right now.”

O’Rourke has derided Buttigieg’s desire to push background checks instead of a ban and a compensated confiscation plan, calling out unnamed, but clearly identified politicians who are “triangulating, poll-testing, focus-group driving their response”. And while O’Rourke has certainly gotten his …Read the Rest

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