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We have to decide whether to give into the fear or whether to fight back," Warren said. Me, Im fighting back. That's why I'm in this. Im fighting back. Im fighting back because we are at our best as a nation when we fight back. When we see big problems and we take them on and we fight back."

Buttigieg has become Warren's rhetorical opposite, especially as he rose sharply in the Iowa polls last fall.

Having attacked the idea that fighting is the point" at a gathering of thousands of Iowa Democrats in November, the 38-year-old former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, typically only mentions Trump by name once in his standard speech, when he asks his audience to imagine the day after Trump leaves office.

When the on-cue burst of cheers subsides, he speaks of an America in the ashes of an impeachment, a divisive election and, as he did in Fort Dodge on Saturday, in need of being brought together, in need of healing and common purpose."

Biden, a veteran of decades of congressional battles who served as Barack Obama's right-hand man, strikes a balanced tone.

In Ames last week, he said, One of the things a president has to do is you have to be a fighter and a competitor, but a president also needs to be a healer. You have to heal the country." He repeated that theme on Sunday in Marshalltown, saying, We can't go on with this endless political war.

Even as Sanders, who labeled Trump a racist, a sexist, a homophobe and a religious bigot" in his opening remarks to a college audience in Ames on Saturday, unity has emerged as a theme as caucus night has approached.

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Democrats' Competing Impulses: Should They Fight or Unite? - The New York Times