Article snippet: LOS ANGELES — Long-simmering tensions between Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren and South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg boiled over Thursday night as they engaged in a blistering exchange over glitzy fund-raising and their respective net worths during the last Democratic debate of the year. The bitter back-and-forth — the sharpest of any of the previous debates — came as the stakes and pressures are rising with the Iowa caucuses just weeks away. The seven qualifying presidential candidates struck a high-minded, peaceable tone for the first half of the debate at Loyola Marymount University as they put forward their respective plans on tackling climate change, the economy, and Israel-US relations. But that all changed when they started fighting over a “wine cave.” Buttigieg, a 37-year-old who has surged past Warren in some recent polls of Iowa and New Hampshire voters, defended his decision to hold exclusive fund-raisers after Warren praised her own policy of eschewing those events and relying on grass-roots support instead. “I can’t help but feel that might have been directed at me,” Buttigieg said after Warren finished, but stood by his fund-raising policy as necessary to win given the well-funded state of President Trump’s campaign. “I’m not going to turn away anyone who wants us to help defeat Donald Trump.” But Warren, who had very rarely gone on the attack on the debate stage before Thursday, came back swinging, bluntly referencing an event that Butt... Link to the full article to read more