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Concordia Forum: Pete Buttigieg in conversation with Wajahat Ali 5/20/2020

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Pete Buttigieg Joe Biden Grassroots Fundraiser 5/22/2020

This NERD plays High Hopes during the credit my heart wasn’t ready

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Meet Portia Allen-Kyle, the absolute BOSS policy advisor, putting in the work to articulate how to dismantle systemic racism.

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Bringing up the always hilarious classic, “America (The Book): A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inaction”

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Our mans are living on book money now. Buy a copy and support an unemployed nerd who gets too excited over waste-water treatment and the drama teacher who loves him anyway

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Interviewer: Tell us about leadership.

Pete: The most important thing is trust in your team.

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Winning this Era

This is the DUMBEST timeline. People protesting for their ‘right’ to catch and spread a plague? Meanwhile the few, the proud, the brave who dare to believe science is real and facts matter are grounded until there’s a new administration because we don’t want to catch, or spread, a deadly disease.

It took me a fair minute to reach the eighth stage of grief, plotting, but by god I am plotting now. This blog is going to remain open as a Pete Buttigieg Stan account and whatever message I can help spread to make this world a better place and keep the militantly idiotic cretins from stealing the next election and dooming us all, I am going to SHOUT into the goddamned void.

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This is my favorite song in the world, and with a Pete solo at the end it’s even better. Gonna be a good day.

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chasten.buttigieg The snuggle is real.

April 2, 2020

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Bernie doesnt even have a fat ass why would anyone vote for him

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“What’s next for you?”

Pete Buttigieg on The Today Show - March 9, 2020

HE’S HOSTING JIMMY KIMMEL ON THURSDAY WITH PATRICK STEWART!

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A big part of the VP choice is: who can help win the General Election?

Biden is already strong with African America voters. He polled over 40% with AA voters in South Carolina, for example. Comparatively, Kamala Harris and Cory Booker were polling at around 2–4%. So it doesn’t follow that having an AA running mate will drive out the AA vote. Where does Biden poll low?

Fact: The South will go red. The coasts will go blue. What matters is the swing states. Where the general election will be won or lost is in the swing states. These are: Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin. Let’s break it down!

Iowa & New Hampshire — Buttigieg campaigned heavily in Iowa and won the state in the primary. He essentially tied for first place in New Hampshire (with Sanders). In both of those states, Biden did poorly. An ideal running mate for these two swing states? Buttigieg!

Michigan — Chasten Buttigieg is from Michigan and South Bend is next door. Buttigieg has home court advantage here.

Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin — All Midwestern states, and Buttigieg is a Rustbelt Indiana mayor. He has the “Midwestern nice” demeanor and speaks their language. Hence why he did so well in Iowa.

North Carolina and Virginia — Pundits marveled at how Biden did so well in these two states despite not having campaigned there. Hello! Both have large grassroots #TeamPete movements that helped swing those states to Biden after Pete dropped out. A February Pete rally in Arlington drew a crowd of over 8000. Pete’s got these two states.

Colorado — Sanders took Colorado. Biden needs help there in the general. Pete had 8800 enthusiastic fans at a Denver rally in February. He’s more progressive than Biden and can help motivate younger voters.

Florida — Pete and Biden both do well with older demographics, a large part of Florida’s population. Pete was doing excellent outreach among the Latino voters in Nevada but didn’t have much time between NH and NV. He speaks Spanish and aced his appearances on Telemundo and with the Culinary union. He has a strong Latinx policy. Pete could be an asset to Biden among Latino voters in Florida.

Pennsylvania — It’s Midwestern in values, which is a good fit for Pete. Philadelphia has a huge and active #TeamPete group. Pete also has a strong appeal to rural areas and farmers (he dominated the rural counties in IA and NH).

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"It's gonna be we. Mayor Pete Buttigieg and me"

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(Via @joebiden on Instagram)

March 3, 2020

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I’m trying to find a bright side. It took Biden like thirty years to win a state in the primary and Pete did it after one year.

Here’s my hunch: Most Americans are bone-weary of Trump’s antics and aggression, his nonstop assault on reality and truth, his dishonoring of the office of the presidency, and his disordered personality. What Buttigieg understood is that the way to defeat Trump (and Trumpism) is to offer as an alternative seriousness to his unseriousness, grace to his gracelessness, equanimity to his instability.

Pete Buttigieg faced too many obstacles to win the Democratic nomination in his first national race, but his remarkable rise is an indication that he tapped into the longings of an exhausted country. Democrats, if they are wise, will nominate someone who does something similar, who shows he can calm the stormy seas rather than further roil them.

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Some cuteness for your dash. Bottom pics of Chasten are from his drink slinging days at a little theatre called Under The Gun.