The Latest News about Pete Buttigieg

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s campaign team wants the rest of his Democratic opponents to drop out of the presidential race so he can take on Sen. Bernie Sanders, man to man. Sanders will become unstoppable if former Vice President Joe Biden doesn’t bow out, Kevin Sheekey, Bloomberg’s top strategist, told Axios Wednesday. The self-avowed Democratic socialist will ...

Pete Buttigieg’s presidential campaign appears to have edited a video from a CNN town hall to add audience applause in a version they posted online. The Buttigieg campaign posted a clip from a May 2019 CNN town hall ahead of another town hall on Thursday night. The Center for Popular Democracy Action, a left-wing political group, posted a side-by-side of ...

Establishment media failed to cover a presidential candidate refusing to say he does not support infanticide. 2020 presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg refused to come out against late term abortion or infanticide Thursday, speaking to The View’s Megan McCain.  Yet establishment media, including CNN, the Washington Post, the New York Times, HuffPost, and Vox, did not cover Buttigieg’s words. None of ...

I love this: “Handsy” Joe Biden, the glorified Democratic frontrunner scored a dismal 15.6% of state delegates behind Buttigieg, Sanders, and Warren. Doncha just love dissension in the Party of Fools? With 62% of state precincts counted (finally), Buttigieg managed to eke out a win, barely.  Sanders is not far behind (1.8%) and actually managed to win the popular vote ...

A dark money group with ties to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announced Tuesday it will spend over $500,000 on digital ads attacking former Vice President Joe Biden and former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg. Ocasio-Cortez has in the past called dark money the “enemy to democracy,” saying groups that use it do so to “manipulate electorates” and silence grassroots candidates. ...

2020 presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg addressed his lack of support from black voters Tuesday night at a Democratic debate. The former South Bend, Indiana, mayor responded to a question from CNN moderator Abby Phillip on his lack of support from black voters and said that “black voters who know me best are supporting me.” “Buttigieg, you have had trouble earning ...

Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg suggested on Thursday that the United States bears some of the blame for the Iranian military shooting down a commercial airliner while it was at the same time firing ballistic missiles at an Iraqi military base that houses American troops. “Innocent civilians are now dead because they were caught in the middle of an unnecessary ...

2020 presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg sparked a backlash on Christmas Day when he tweeted that Jesus Christ came into the world “not as a citizen but as a refugee.” The Democratic South Bend, Indiana, mayor wished his followers a “merry Christmas” and said he and millions of others around the world were celebrating the “arrival of divinity on earth.” Buttigieg ...

The Food and Drug Administration warned Monday that eliminating restrictions on abortion drugs, as 2020 presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg has suggested, could cause “serious complications” for women. The South Bend mayor suggested ignoring the FDA’s Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) applied to the abortion drug mifepristone in a Nov. 25 survey conducted by the New York Times. REMS is ...

Three top officials who served under former President Barack Obama endorsed 2020 presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg for president, noticeably skipping over former Vice President Joe Biden. Buttigieg received endorsements from Linda Douglass, former director of communications for Obama’s White House Office of Health Reform, Austan Goolsbee, former senior economic advisor on Obama’s 2008 campaign who also served as chairman of ...

Pete Buttigieg, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, has proposed long-term care benefits for seniors and a new tax that would protect Social Security “forever.” But his proposed carbon tax will only raise taxes on Social Security recipients, adding to the financial strain for Americans on fixed incomes. The high cost of long-term care is a concern for older Americans. Among those ...

Former Vice President Joe Biden said Monday that 2020 presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg “stole” his health care plan. Biden has proposed expanding the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare, and Biden wants to add a “public option,” allowing individuals to opt into a government plan while maintaining private insurer’s existing role. But Biden says Buttigieg “stole” this idea, according ...

Democratic presidential candidate Mayor Pete Buttigieg is facing a left-wing backlash over a resurfaced 2011 clip that shows him talking about challenges faced by minority students. The video shows Buttigieg, then a South Bend, Indiana, mayoral candidate, saying that “there are a lot of kids especially from lower-income minority neighborhoods who literally just haven’t seen it work, there isn’t somebody ...

Speaking at an Iowa town hall event, Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg said migrant families separated by the U.S. government deserve “compensation.” “Can you imagine if you’ve been taken away from your parents and didn’t know where they are?” Buttigieg said Sunday during a town hall in Charles City, Iowa, according to the Washington Examiner. “The United States owes something ...

2020 presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg surged into third place among likely Democratic caucusgoers in Iowa, a poll found. A Suffolk University-USA TODAY Poll released Monday found Democratic South Bend Indiana Mayor Buttigieg trailing former Vice President Joe Biden and Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren among likely Democratic Iowa caucusgoers. The poll surveyed 500 likely Iowa Democratic caucusgoers over the phone ...