Buttigieg swipes at Warren claims of campaign fundraising purity

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Pete Buttigieg jabbed at 2020 Democratic rival Elizabeth Warren over her campaign trail claims of funding her presidential bid strictly with grassroots support.

“It was exactly a year ago on this day and in this place that we first launched this exploratory committee for president that became my campaign,” Buttigieg, 38, told the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Washington. “I had no big email list, no senatorial PAC. I had a personal fortune amounting to literally thousands of dollars and a name that didn’t exactly roll off the tongue.”

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