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    As Joe Biden woos Iowa voters, Pete Buttigieg seems increasingly to be in his way

    by Janet Hook, Los Angeles Times Dec 04, 2019 5 minutes

    COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - Jeanne Trachta was a strong Joe Biden supporter during his 2008 presidential campaign, serving as a precinct captain. A dozen years later, she still likes the 77-year-old former vice president, but as she waited for his event here to begin, she gushed about a candidate less than half Biden's age.

    "He's so articulate and charismatic and intelligent," Trachta said of Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind., whom she had seen here just a few days earlier. "He's so organized. I'm getting something from the Buttigieg campaign a couple times a day."

    Trachta personifies a challenge facing Biden in Iowa and elsewhere as he tries to regain traction with the argument that he is the experienced, tested candidate best able to beat President Donald Trump.

    Among centrist voters inclined to like Biden, the 37-year-old Buttigieg is becoming plausible as an alternative, and he highlights what Biden

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