NASHUA, N.H.— Elizabeth Warren promised Iowans she could unite her party’s liberal and centrist wings in the final days before her better-than-expected finish in the presidential caucuses. But many voters in this state remain skeptical the liberal stalwart could appeal to a wide range of Democrats.
Caucus results appear to back up the Massachusetts senator’s assessment that Democratic voters are divided. With more than 95% of precincts reporting as of Wednesday night, former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who has positioned himself as a moderate in the 2020 field, and Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, a self-described socialist, led the delegate count in Iowa.
Ms. Warren appeared poised to place third in the state, slightly better than public polling had indicated she would fare.
But in interviews in New Hampshire, where the Massachusetts Democrat is generally polling in fourth place ahead of next week’s primary, some undecided voters said they weren’t convinced she could garner widespread support from moderate-leaning Democrats.
“I don’t know that she’s going to be able to do that,” said Laurie Barlow, a part-time bookkeeper from Gilford, who said she is deciding whether to support Mr. Buttigieg or Sen. Amy Klobuchar next week.
Ms. Warren leaned into the argument that she could bring together liberals and more-moderate Democrats in the final days of the Iowa race. Her team began distributing posters that read “Unite the Party,” which were passed out in New Hampshire this week, too.
“The way I’m going to win is, I’m going to unite our party, because we have to have a united party. We can’t have a repeat of 2016,” Ms. Warren said Tuesday in Keene, in an apparent nod to bitterness among Democrats after Mr. Sanders’s long primary fight against eventual nominee Hillary Clinton.
She has emphasized that staff have joined her campaign after previously working for candidates who dropped out. A Warren aide noted that more than a half-dozen politicians in New Hampshire who previously backed other Democrats who dropped out of the race are now supporting Ms. Warren. “She’s got Democrats united on the issues,” the aide said.
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“We now have a campaign that, sure, it’s got a lot of Elizabeth Warren originals,” Ms. Warren told a crowd in Nashua on Wednesday. “But it’s also got a lot of Kamala [Harris] folks in it. It’s got a lot of Julián [Castro] folks in it. It’s got a lot of Beto [O’Rourke] folks in it. It’s got a lot of Cory [Booker] folks in it, because they all had good ideas and they all care about our country. We need to pull this party together.”
She also released a digital advertisement featuring file footage of President Obama standing with her in the White House Rose Garden. Mr. Obama tapped her to help his administration establish the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
A Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll from January showed 63% of Democrats were enthusiastic or comfortable with Ms. Warren as a candidate, compared with 71% who felt the same way about former Vice President Joe Biden and 64% for Mr. Sanders.
Ms. Warren has struggled at times to navigate the party divide. Mr. Buttigieg criticized her for introducing a Medicare for All plan that would eliminate private insurance. When Ms. Warren said she would transition over several years to single-payer health care, Mr. Sanders emphasized that he would introduce such legislation in his first week in office.
Some New Hampshire voters said fear of a second term for President Trump would unify Democrats around anyone who becomes the nominee. “I think we’re going to come together no matter what,” said Anthony Laventure, a train conductor from Hudson who backs Ms. Warren.
Others said they had doubts she could stitch together a broad coalition.
Manasa Jampana, a software engineer from Nashua who attended Ms. Warren’s town hall here, said the senator is among her top choices. But she said Mr. Sanders or Mr. Biden, who she said might win over some Obama-Trump voters, might have better luck.
“I think [Ms. Warren] sort of fits in a certain part of the party,” said Ms. Jampana, 22 years old.
In Nashua, Ms. Warren said her campaign policy agenda—including a wealth tax, which some surveys show is broadly popular among Americans—wouldn’t only “help us unite as a party, but it will also help us pull in independents. It will help us pull in Republicans.”
Caroline Yang, a stay-at-home mom from Ms. Warren’s home state of Massachusetts who drove to New Hampshire to see her, said she found the call for party unity would fall on deaf ears in some quarters.
“Her message doesn’t scare me whatsoever, but I understand for some people, she’s too much to the left,” Ms. Yang said. Asked if her Republican friends might support Ms. Warren, Ms. Yang said: “I’m too scared to ask.”
—Chad Day contributed to this article.
Write to Joshua Jamerson at joshua.jamerson@wsj.com
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