Mark Shields:
I think Buttigieg comes out with considerable momentum.
Bernie, Bernie Sanders, got less than half of the vote that he got four years ago in Iowa as a percentage. Granted, there was a bigger field, but he was one-on-one at that point.
And I think I think that, right now, from every — all my reports, that it's a Buttigieg-Sanders race in New Hampshire.
What Buttigieg did in Iowa was, he didn't just go to — like Warren and Sanders did, to the pockets of Democratic energy and enthusiasm and the campuses. He went statewide, so it was a lot broader victory.
I think it'll be a little tougher to sell, I am the candidate of the heartland in Laconia and Manchester and Concord, New Hampshire, than it was in Des Moines and Cedar Rapids.
But I think that he did pass the first test. Running for president and being able to run a successful campaign is a pretty good test for somebody in whether, in fact, they're up to that challenge.
And I think — I think he's met it right now. But I think this is Joe Biden's last stand, I mean, if he doesn't do it in the debate tonight, and somehow turn it around.
But every report is the lack of energy and intensity in that campaign.
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