The divide among Democrats over “Medicare for All” has dominated the policy conversation in the 2020 Democratic primary. But another rift has opened among Democrats, this one about college affordability. The question: who should get to go to college for free?
South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg jabbed at his more liberal opponents in a new ad airing in Iowa. It doesn’t name other candidates, but it’s clear he’s taking aim at Vermont U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders and Massachusetts U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who have pitched plans making free public college available to all.
Buttigieg’s ad amplified a point he has made before on the trial. And Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, D-N.Y., who recently endorsed Sanders, responded in a Twitter thread assailing Buttigieg for, as she put it, repeating a “GOP talking point used to dismantle public systems.”
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