Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, told NBC News' Craig Melvin he's as"surprised as anyone" to be rising in the primary field.
On the question of whether the 37-year-old mayor is too young or too inexperienced to be president, Buttigieg countered that he's actually more experienced than both President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence, saying he has"more governmental experience than Trump and more executive governmental experience than the vice president."
Buttigieg, a former naval intelligence officer, has served as South Bend's mayor since 2012. Pence, who hails from Buttigieg's state, served as governor of Indiana from 2013 until he began his vice presidency in 2017. That stint followed a run as a congressman from 2001 through 2013.In discussing how he would take on the president in a head-to-head battle, Buttigieg said he would do so with"a very different energy" than Trump.
MSNBC, is he rising or down by 3?
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This is due to the fact that none of the candidates have anything to offer America other than increased spending, higher taxes, further government involvement in the medical industry, and open borders. Panic and fear is their solution...zero solutions.
In the end you wont make it.
Mr. Buttigieg... Do not be surprised! You are what this country needs and should aspire to as leadership.
Nonsense
You're insane to believe bobtorricelli the base Democrats are going to accept SpeakerPelosi 'moving on' w/o putting impeachment or censure on Trump's record because they're more focused on 'winning' the next election. How is this going to look 20 yrs from now? SRuhle
Another economically illiterate Democrat who thinks he can create prosperity (he ran his city into the ground) on a victimization message. Hey Pete, YOU DON'T HAVE A CHANCE. lol Trump2020Landslide
No thanks. We're not turning into Venezuela
spends half of the morning decrying 'Socialism' while Authoritarians are subverting our democracy...wtf?
Nice guy but the DNC has chosen Biden.
I thank it because of what you are.
Surprised how? his dnc bundlers didn't tell him? C'mon
he has been forced upon us by the media. he shook the right hands...he's not surprised at all.
It's cyclical. Kind of like climate change.
The thing he has going for him is that he don't have a political past to bite him.
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