Indiana Governor 2020 - Holcomb vs Buttigieg?

[Lisa's voting Biden]

#PeteForGovernor is trending on Twitter right now. A lot of people online want Pete to drop out of the presidential race and run against incumbent Indiana governor Eric Holcomb in 2020.

Would Buttigieg do this? Would he have a chance?

[Perlen vor den Schweinen]

Seems to be a lot of former Beto supporters who are salty another young golden boy has taken their king's place. Many of the tweets are from the same few people!

[MT Treasurer]

Buttigieg would get absolutely destroyed in this race and he’s almost certainly smart enough to know this, which is why he won’t run.

[libertpaulian]

If someone like Pence was in office, I think he'd have a chance. 

Holcomb, though?  His approvals are stratospheric, and he has a very Mitch Daniels-like reputation.  Very few people actually hate him or want him gone, which is why you've got a bunch of joke candidates filing on the Dem side.  Hell, I'm even thinking of breaking my "No more Republicans ever" rule to vote for him.

Safe R.

[America Needs a 13-6 Progressive SCOTUS]

Buttigieg would have an actual chance here if he ran. It would be a close race.

[brucejoel99]

Buttigieg would have an actual chance here if he ran. It would be a close race.

No.

[libertpaulian]

Buttigieg would have an actual chance here if he ran. It would be a close race.

Please stop.

[Xing]

Holcomb isn’t losing, and I doubt Buttigieg would even want to run.

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

There's a reason Pete is running for president in 2020 instead of scooping up the gubernatorial nomination (which would be his the moment he entered the race if he wanted it): he and everyone else knows whoever gets it will be canon fodder when Holcomb wins by 20 points next year.

[Mr. Smith]

What a silly idea, Pete would have been better off primarying Donnelly and hoping his opponent was Luke Messer or Todd Rokita.

[Dr Oz Lost Party!]

I doubt he would run, but he'd get blown out if he did.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Everything is safe except MT, for Gov

[At-Large Senator LouisvilleThunder]

Buttigieg would perform better than the other joke candidates for sure, but he won't get enough to win. Running as a Real Liberal^TM would work well as we've seen in Kentucky.

[StateBoiler]

Buttigieg has shown zero interest in Indiana politics for a few years now outside of who won the South Bend Mayoral Democratic primary. Democrats around the state were late supporting him because Buttigieg had nothing to deal with them.

[Swedish Rainbow Capitalist Cheese]

As much as I like Mayor Pete, there is no way he'll beat a popular incumbent Republican governor in a red state in a presidential year. Now if Holcomb was a Bevin type who was deeply despised, it might be possible, but as it stands now he actually have better prospects of becoming the Democratic candidate than winning against Holcomb. 

[President Johnson]

Mayor Pete would be an excellent governor and it would be a good training ground for a presidential bid, but I think he wouldn't be elected statewide. Sadly. This is why I hope he'll get a cabinet appointment, especially under Joe Biden.

With that being said, I don't think he will enter the race. Very, very unlikely.

[Pollster]

Do keep in mind that the Indiana Democratic Party pressured their nominee out of the 2016 Senate race and replaced him with Bayh two months after the primary - they could do the same with Buttigieg after the DNC.

He would lose, of course.