South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg has surged to first place in a new Iowa Caucus poll, the Monmouth University poll, an amazing rise for a mayor of a small sized city in a red state. He has gained 14 points since the summer, rising from 8 percent to 22 percent, three points ahead of Joe Biden.
It is time to start seeing Mayor Pete as a serious contender, rather than as a curiosity.
His major negative is that he has almost no support in the African American community, which right now is smitten with Joe Biden, a surprise when one thinks that either Kamala Harris or Cory Booker would have a strong support in that community, and yet does not do so.
Mayor Pete being gay and having a husband will alienate evangelical Christians, who, however, would never vote Democratic in any case.
One might say that having an urban executive government record of 8 years in South Bend, Indiana, is not a plus, but actually, being a mayor is often more on the front lines of what is America than being a Governor of a Southern state, such as Arkansas (Bill Clinton); or as Georgia one term of four years (Jimmy Carter); or two years as Governor (Woodrow Wilson in New Jersey); or four years as Governor (Franklin D. Roosevelt in New York); or no government experience (Donald Trump); or a much shorter one year mayoralty as Grover Cleveland in Buffalo, New York, or Calvin Coolidge in Northampton, Massachusetts, or Andrew Johnson in Greeneville, Tennessee.
American history is full of surprises, so do not write Mayor Pete off, as he might very well be the Democratic Presidential nominee and the 46th President of the United States!
Ronald writes, “American history is full of surprises, so do not write Mayor Pete off, as he might very well be the Democratic Presidential nominee and the 46th President of the United States!â€
I am writing off Pete Buttigieg.
I also do not trust Pete Buttigieg.
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/mayor-pete-takes-shot-at-bernie-sanders-compares-his-supporters-with-trumps/
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/pete-buttigieg-bernie-sanders-high-school-essay-912731/
I’m not writing him off. I think he’s a serious contender. I also trust him.
Smerconish said this morning we might have a brokered convention.
‘Pete Buttigieg Touted Three Major Supporters of His Douglass Plan for Black America. They Were Alarmed When They Saw It.’
By Ryan Grim (11.15.2019)
https://theintercept.com/2019/11/15/pete-buttigieg-campaign-black-voters/
Pete Buttigieg has showed remarkable staying power in the Democratic presidential primary, with the most recent Monmouth University poll coming out of Iowa showing him in a lead that would have been shocking at the beginning of the campaign — and up 14 percentage points since August. This week, FiveThirtyEight wrote that Buttigieg “is experiencing something of a moment.†But in another early state, South Carolina, Buttigieg has struggled to make inroads, persistently registering in the single digits. The South Bend, Indiana, mayor polls close to zero nationally with African Americans, faring no better with that vote in South Carolina, a liability that he knows will thwart his nomination if he can’t turn it around.
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Same with me Leia. I’m not writing him off either.