Candidates Step Up Attacks as Iowa Fight Comes Down to Hours

  • Biden reminds voters of Sanders mixed record on guns
  • Buttigieg calls leading rivals part of ‘Washington playbook’

Pete Buttigieg, former mayor of South Bend and 2020 presidential candidate, speaks with members of the media during a campaign event in Ames, Iowa, on Jan. 29, 2020.

Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg
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Tensions among the Democratic presidential candidates are building as they enter the final days before the crucial Iowa caucuses.

Former Vice President Joe Biden seized an opportunity to to highlight opponent Bernie Sanders’ history of votes in favor of the gun lobby Thursday, an issue that’s one of Sanders’s biggest vulnerabilities with progressive voters.