Pete Buttigieg 2020 campaign megathread

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His campaign will officially launch on Sunday at an event in South Bend, transforming from "exploratory committee" to "real campaign mode".

This comes at a time when he's hitting double-digits in the early important states of IA, NH, SC, NV and CA.



https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/11/politics/iowa-new-hampshire-buttigieg-2020-polls/index.html

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-11/buttigieg-sees-polling-jump-among-2020-democrats-in-early-states

Please sticky.

His campaign is getting serious and if Warren (8%) deserves a stickied thread, Butt also deserves one ...

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One of John Shelby Spong's Twelve points for reforming Christianity is to be accepting of all people. Of course, he is considered a heretic.

There is really nothing in the Bible to be "pro-gay".

If the Bible is "anti-gay" as some suggest, that would be a good reason not to be a Christian, although there others.

Nobody cares what the bible says ... it's just some book.

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South Bend, which neighbors the University of Notre Dame, was hit hard by the decline of manufacturing, dating to the 1963 closing of the Studebaker auto plant that cost thousands of residents their jobs.

The hulking, dilapidated factory loomed over the city for much of the past 60 years as what Buttigieg called a daily reminder of South Bend's city's past.

Buttigieg plans to give his speech inside that building, which underwent a multimillion-dollar renovation led by a private developer with help from state grants and tax increment financing from the city. The newly remodeled structure is now part of a mixed-use technology center outside the city's downtown.

Good.

The best way to win back Trump voters.

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The Buttigieg campaign has now filed officially with the FEC, dropping the „exploratory“ status.

They also expect 10.000 people today inside and outside the renovated, former Studebaker plant.

Buttigieg to speak at 2pm Eastern.

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Live stream:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=EELwk8pYAbw

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This rally is a disaster. Every single guest speaker bar maybe the mayor is a nobody, and they just waited half an hour in between speeches from random people in his personal life.

He’s almost as late as Obama was all the time, which is a good sign for his campaign.

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Good speech already.

And the more VP Pence talks about how he hates gays, Pete will gain an additional 1% every day in the polls now ...

He will soon be at 20% in the national polls. Mark my words.

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The Cory Bookers, Amy Klobuchars, Eric Swalwells etc. can pack their bags already and audition for VP candidate of your next POTUS ...

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He‘s like a gay white version of Obama, with a shot of Sheldon Cooper.

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Obama was also watching Pete’s speech on CNN and he was like:

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Pete not only rising fast in the polls, but also in the betting markets:

https://theweek.com/speedreads/835346/bettors-are-giving-pete-buttigieg-same-2020-primary-odds-bernie-sanders-joe-biden

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Pete returned to Iowa yesterday to campaign there and got huge, enthusiastic crowds:

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Anti-gay protesters shout about Sodom and Gomorrah at Pete Buttigieg rally in Iowa

Protesters shouting about "Sodom and Gomorrah" interrupted South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg on Tuesday at an Iowa campaign rally.

Buttigieg hopes to become the first openly gay president in American history.



One of the men who shouted about the biblical cities destroyed by God's wrath for their sinful ways was Randall Terry, a Christian activist who founded the anti-abortion rights group Operation Rescue. The organization says it split with him 18 years ago and now considers him too radical.

The crowd at the Des Moines rally drowned out Terry's shouts by cheering Buttigieg’s name.

"The good news is, the condition of my soul is in the hands of God, but the Iowa caucuses are up to you," an unshaken Buttigieg responded, pointing at the crowd.

CNN's Jeff Zeleny reported that Buttigieg was interrupted three times by protesters affiliated with Terry.

Another video from the rally showed one of the other protesters shout "baby killer" and "Sodomite" while appearing to point in Buttigieg's direction.

"Remember Sodom and Gomorrah," he yelled over the crowd's chants of "Pete!"

Buttigieg was also confronted by a protester at a smaller event in Fort Dodge, Iowa, earlier on Tuesday after he brought up the subject of same-sex marriage.

"Grandparents, do you want your grandchildren following his example?" the man yelled as audience members booed over him, in a CNN video.

Gesturing toward Buttigieg, he shouted, "God loves us, but he stands for the murder of unborn babies!"

"Coffee after church gets a little rowdy sometimes," Buttigieg quipped after the man was escorted from the room. "That gentleman believes that what he is doing is in line with the will of the creator. I view it differently. We ought to be able to view it differently."

Buttigieg supports abortion rights and said at an event in South Carolina last month, "You’re not free if your reproductive choices are being dictated by male politicians in Washington."

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2019/04/17/pete-buttigieg-confronts-sodom-and-gomorrah-hecklers-iowa-rally/3494336002

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The crowds and the attacks mean that he's now polling around 15-20% in Iowa and has fully arrived in the campaign mode there ...

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Uh oh! Looks like Prince Pete isn't as perfect as Atlas had hoped. Is Atlas going to cut him as deep as they did Harris? We'll find out!

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/17/pete-buttigieg-enlists-barack-obama-hillary-clinton-fundraisers-for-2020-campaign.html

That’s a very good thing, really.

He needs to collect 500 million $ over the next year and a half after all. Veteran Obama donors can help with that. And regular „small“ people will also donate their share of course.

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The conservative German newspaper Welt calls Pete the „ideal“ candidate against Trump:

https://www.welt.de/print/welt_kompakt/print_politik/article191998545/Der-ideale-Kandidat.html

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Pete has an aggressive fundraising schedule coming up:

3x New York City, Chicago, Minnesota and 12 stops in California during May.

The way this is going, he’ll pull in 30-40 million $ in the 2nd quarter ...

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/19/buttigieg-fundraising-california-1282196

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The NYT out with a Balkan hitman piece against Pete:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/19/us/politics/buttigieg-black-police-chief-fired.html

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Pete is in NH right now for a town hall.

There are ca. 500 people in the room and 2.000 overflow people outside:

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Trump said he prefers Pete to be his opponent in the general election:

President Trump said Thursday night that he’s “rooting for” Pete Buttigieg when he was asked to give his impressions of some of the top Democratic presidential contenders.

At the end of a 45-minute live interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity, the host asked Trump to offer his thoughts on the slate of candidates who want to take him on in 2020.

Trump did not elaborate on why Buttigieg is his favored candidate and didn’t have anything negative to say about the young South Bend, Ind., mayor, other than that he doubted he’d win the crowded primary.

“I hope he would,” Trump said. “I’m rooting for him, but he is not going to make it.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-tells-hannity-hes-rooting-for-pete-buttigieg/2019/04/25/02849e16-67c7-11e9-82ba-fcfeff232e8f_story.html

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Did you know that Pete Buttigieg means „Father of Chickens“ in Arabic ?

https://www.twitter.com/PeteButtigieg/status/1140040545382916097

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South Bend police officer who killed black man resigns

https://eu.indystar.com/story/news/politics/elections/2019/07/16/south-bend-officer-resigns-eric-jack-logan-ryan-oneill-pete-buttigieg/1741940001

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Desticking this due to overall lack of commentary on the candidate in question.

I thought it was based on polling, not commentary. If it's the latter, Gabbard and Yang should definitely have stickied threads, lol.

We kind of have a lot of stickied threads as is but I could assemble a megathread on some down time.

Please also de-stick the Harris thread, as she's in no better position than Pete ...

At this point, only the Top-3 should have their threads until something bigger changes.

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Desticking this due to overall lack of commentary on the candidate in question.

I thought it was based on polling, not commentary. If it's the latter, Gabbard and Yang should definitely have stickied threads, lol.

We kind of have a lot of stickied threads as is but I could assemble a megathread on some down time.

Please also de-stick the Harris thread, as she's in no better position than Pete ...

Harris still generally generates decent discussion on here though.

Not really ...

It should be more about polling, not what people post here.