On Thursday night, former mayor Pete Buttigieg, who is currently out of a job since his presidential campaign came to a halt, tried a new path, hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live on ABC, where he took the opportunity to mock President Trump. Because of the threat of the coronavirus, the normal studio audience was absent, prompting Buttigieg to sneer, “When you don’t have a real audience, you have to fake one. Just like Trump’s inauguration.”
Buttigieg had preceded that potshot at Trump during his opening monologue by asserting:
<blockquote>Now this is a strange night for us; not only because this is my first time hosting a talk show, but because we are doing it without a regular studio audience due to public health concerns over the coronavirus. We have canceled the studio audience tonight. But a few kind Kimmel staffers and some friends, my husband Chasten, all here instead. We’re gonna have a great time. Everyone is spread apart at the CDC recommended distance. This was not our plan; we just decided this a few hours ago.</blockquote>
He added later, “The only way we’re going to get through this crisis is with unity. So let’s do this together. Who’s with me?”
The screen cut to a vast audience cheering.
Buttigieg continued, “Full disclosure: None of those people are here. But when you don’t have a real audience, you have to fake one. Just like Trump’s inauguration.”
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Pete Buttigieg just hosted Jimmy Kimmel live. 10/10. Knew he’d do well, yet still exceeded expectations. Amazing performance. <a href="https://t.co/f9NnelIzUb">pic.twitter.com/f9NnelIzUb</a>
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Buttigieg’s mockery of Trump and a non-audience was ironic considering the Center for Popular Democracy Action, a group that supports Sen. Bernie Sanders, claimed that Buttigieg’s campaign allegedly edited applause into a video clip from a CNN town hall.
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WATCH: <a href="https://twitter.com/PeteButtigieg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PeteButtigieg</a> inserts artificial audience applause into <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PeteOnCNN?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#PeteOnCNN</a> videos <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SneakyPete?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SneakyPete</a> (video by <a href="https://twitter.com/rafaelshimunov?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@rafaelshimunov</a>) <a href="https://t.co/LyxrcYstGH">pic.twitter.com/LyxrcYstGH</a>
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In February, when he was still riding high and waiting for the results of the New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary, Buttigieg boasted regarding Trump, “I don’t think he can figure out what to do with me, and that’s fine by me. I’m not that focused on this president’s approach because they always do the same thing. He’s going to find a vulnerability, and if he can’t, he’ll make one up,” as the <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7991973/Pete-Buttigieg-claims-Donald-Trump-attacked-vulnerability.html">Daily Mail </a>reported.
At a campaign rally, when a voter yelled out “F***” as Buttigieg mentioned President Trump, Buttigieg smilingly agreed, “Well said,” also stating, “The President thinks we are suckers. And this is our chance to send a completely different message that he will hear.”
Prior to that, Buttigieg had <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-buttigieg-ill-go-directly-into-the-backyard-of-senators-if-they-deny-my-white-house">boasted</a> what he would do from “my White House,” puffing:
<blockquote>So to me, the best use of that big blue-and-white airplane that comes with the Oval Office that the president uses mostly for the purpose of traveling among golf courses with his name on them — I don&#8217;t even golf so that&#8217;s not going to be how I use that airplane. I&#8217;m going to use that airplane to go directly into the backyard of senators who are not just defying my White House but defying their own voters, their own constituents, and require them to explain to the people who sent them to Washington why they refuse to enact the basic legislation that meets the expectation of their own voters.</blockquote>
Now he’s hosting late-night talk shows.

Pete Buttigieg Holds Watch Party Event On Night Of Iowa Caucus

Buttigieg Hosts For Kimmel, Mocks Trump. Here’s Something He Didn’t Mention.

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In a now-deleted tweet sent early Tuesday morning, Reuters included the wrong picture to go with the headline of the article it was promoting, causing quite the embarrassment for the news outlet.
The tweet included the caption, “In a Texas chicken joint, Biden and onetime rival Buttigieg unite to stop Sanders.” But the photo included in the tweet showed Biden sitting at a table with former presidential candidate Francis “Beto” O’Rourke, not Buttigieg. Cups from Whataburger, not “a Texas chicken joint,” can also be seen on the table.
<div id="attachment_92192" style="width: 610px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-92192" class="wp-image-92192 size-full" src="https://editorial.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Reuters-tweet.jpg" alt="Reuters tweet makes several identification errors" width="600" height="300" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2020/03/Reuters-tweet.jpg 600w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2020/03/Reuters-tweet-300x150.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" />(Screenshot via Twitchy)</div>
As Twitchy <a href="https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2020/03/03/fake-news-reuters-labels-whataburger-just-a-texas-chicken-joint-confuses-beto-with-buttigieg/">reported</a>, the tweet was mocked instantly.
The Reuters tweet linked to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-biden-idUSKBN20Q15W?taid=5e5e3f3505296a00010442c9&amp;utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&amp;utm_medium=trueAnthem&amp;utm_source=twitter">an article</a> with the same title, which was, in fact, about South Bend Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg endorsing former Vice President Joe Biden at “a Texas chicken joint” known as Chicken Scratch, located in Dallas.
Buttigieg suspended his campaign on March 1 even though he currently was in third place regarding delegates. Buttigieg walked away from the Iowa caucus with the most delegates, and until the South Carolina primary on February 29, sat in second place behind Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). Buttigieg picked up delegates in the first three 2020 Democratic primary states, but his support cratered in South Carolina.
Biden ran away with the South Carolina primary, moving him from third place to a close second behind Sanders. The Vermont socialist currently has 60 pledged delegates to Biden’s 54 heading into Super Tuesday.
Buttigieg was not the only Democratic presidential candidate to drop out and endorse Biden. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) also suspended her campaign despite some decent showings in the early primary states and endorsed Biden. O’Rourke, who dropped out months ago, also endorsed Biden.
Biden also picked up endorsements from former Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV).
“I hadn’t planned on endorsing anybody, but then I started getting worried that Bernie Sanders would become the nominee,” Boxer said, making it clear that the sudden wave of endorsements was a public effort on the part of Democrats to stop Sanders from becoming their eventual nominee.
CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/02/politics/pete-buttigieg-endorsement-obama-biden-calls/index.html">reported</a> that Biden became tearful during Buttigieg’s endorsement in Dallas, comparing his former rival to his son Beau, who died of brain cancer in 2015:
Despite the acrimony, it is common for candidates who once sparred in a primary to come together once one drops out.
That much was made clear Monday night when Biden told supporters that Buttigieg reminds him of his son, Beau, who died of brain cancer in 2015 at the age of 46.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever done this before, but (Buttigieg) reminds me of my son, Beau. I know that may not mean much to most people, but to me it&#8217;s the highest compliment I can give any man or woman,&#8221; Biden said.
&#8220;Like Beau, he has a backbone like a ramrod. I really mean this. I think about it,&#8221; Biden said.
Biden said in Dallas that he was surprised by Buttigieg’s endorsement, saying that they had talked after the South Bend mayor suspended his campaign, but Biden didn’t ask for an endorsement and Buttigieg didn’t say he would be making one.

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Reuters Tweet Confuses Beto For Buttigieg, Calls Whataburger a ‘Texas Chicken Joint’

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Former President Barack Obama spoke with former South Bend, Indiana, mayor Pete Buttigieg in the wee hours of Monday morning, according to <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/485503-obama-spoke-with-buttigieg-after-he-dropped-out-of-2020-race-report">The Hill</a>, just after Buttigieg announced that he&#8217;d be ending his bid for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, likely in effort to press Buttigieg to endorse Obama&#8217;s former vice president, Joe Biden.
&#8220;Obama reportedly did not directly tell Buttigieg to endorse former Vice President Joe Biden,&#8221; The Hill said. &#8220;But he did tell the former South Bend, Ind., mayor that he now has leverage and should consider how to use it, a Democratic official familiar with the conversation told the [New York] Times,&#8221; which reported on the conversation Monday.
Buttigieg is likely to endorse Biden, perhaps at a rally in Dallas, Texas, on Monday night. A plane that regularly carries the former South Bend mayor registered a flight plan going from South Bend, Indiana, to Dallas on Monday afternoon. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), who ended her presidential bid on Monday afternoon, is also expected to appear at the event.
“We need leadership to heal a divided nation, not drive us further apart,” Buttigieg said in his farewell speech, which stopped short of mentioning Biden specifically. “We need a broad based agenda to truly deliver for the American people, not one that gets lost in ideology. We need an approach strong enough not only to win the White House, but hold the House, win the Senate and send [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell into retirement.”
Buttigieg&#8217;s campaign held a meeting, where they &#8220;briefed top donors &#8230; about his plans to push forward in the presidential race, looking deep into the March primary calendar for friendly Midwestern states,&#8221; <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/02/pete-buttigieg-campaign-2020-election-118573">Politico reported</a> Monday morning. Just hours later, though, Buttigieg told his staff that he planned to cash in on his bid.
Politico notes that Buttigieg was facing a &#8220;logjam&#8221; with other &#8220;moderate&#8221; candidates, that he was about to be in deep financial trouble, and had struggled with getting traction among key voter demographics &#8212; specifically African-American and other minority voters. The &#8220;money matters&#8221; were particularly difficult: although he asked his major donors for around $13 million to help move his operation forward, he only raised a little more than 60% of that.
Obama, though, seems to have been the force behind Buttigieg&#8217;s decision to back Biden, and the former president seems to have stepped up involvement in the Democratic primary, though he&#8217;s (so far) stopped short of endorsing Biden. He <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/485406-obama-called-biden-to-congratulate-him-after-south-carolina-victory-report">did call his former vice president Saturday night</a> to congratulate him on his big win in South Carolina.
Months ago, before any primary ballots had been cast, Obama reportedly told a group of Democratic donors that he&#8217;d &#8220;step in&#8221; if he felt Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) was in danger of snagging the party&#8217;s presidential nomination, and he repeatedly warned left-leaning voters that Sanders&#8217; agenda was too progressive for voters in Rust Belt and battleground states &#8212; voters who also happen to be the key to unseating President Donald Trump.
It does seem as though Obama is making good on his promise.

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REPORT: Obama Spoke With Buttigieg After Race Exit, Coordinated Biden Endorsement

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President Donald Trump mocked Democrats Sunday night after former South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg exited the race for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, suggesting that the Democratic Party had pushed Buttigieg out before his time so that they could consolidate behind a &#8220;moderate&#8221; candidate &#8212; in this case forme Vice President Joe Biden &#8212; and take Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) &#8220;out of play.&#8221;
&#8220;Pete Buttigieg is OUT,&#8221; Trump tweeted. &#8220;All of his SuperTuesday votes will [go] to Sleepy Joe Biden. Great timing. This is the REAL beginning of the Dems taking Bernie out of play &#8211; NO NOMINATION, AGAIN!&#8221;
Trump is, of course, alluding to the 2016 race, when Democratic &#8220;superdelegates&#8221; locked in their votes for Hillary Clinton before the primary race even started, effectively preventing Sanders from snagging the presidential nomination, despite strong showings in Iowa and New Hampshire.
Trump has been pressing Democratic voters to fight back against the Democratic Party and its efforts to sideline Sanders for some time, probably on the theory that Trump would prefer to run against the Vermont socialist than an economically middle-of-the-road candidate who polls well in key battleground states, particularly in the midwest and the &#8220;Rust Belt.&#8221;
Trump won working class states by a large margin in 2016, running against Hillary Clinton, and appealed to so-called &#8220;Reagan Democrats&#8221; who see themselves as socially and fiscally moderate, but support the return of American manufacturing, tariffs on foreign goods and raw materials, and who responded well to Trump&#8217;s message of &#8220;making America great again.&#8221; Those same voters have largely benefitted from Trump&#8217;s policies, and a &#8220;working class wage boom&#8221; certainly puts them back in Trump&#8217;s corner for 2020.
Sanders, however popular he may be with social media progressives, has a difficult time leveling with &#8220;Rust Belt&#8221; and working class voters and, particularly, older Americans, who see Sanders&#8217; policies as largely benefitting younger workers, college students, and those too young to qualify for Medicare.
Democrats are also increasingly worried that a Sanders presidential run would tank downticket races, throwing the House back to Republicans and destroying any hopes of a Democrat-run Senate.
Buttigieg exited the race for the nomination on Sunday night, just days before Super Tuesday, even though he placed a narrow second in the Iowa caucuses and did, on the whole, better than other major candidates, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who remains in the race and says she will continue to compete for the nod through at least Wisconsin.
Experts speculated Sunday that Buttigieg was pressured to leave the race so that &#8220;moderate&#8221; votes could consolidate behind Biden, who caught a break Saturday with a commanding win in the South Carolina primary (and seems to be moving upward in the Super Tuesday polls). If this is true, party officials are likely pressuring Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) to exit the race as well, a distinct possibility if she fails to capture her home state of Minnesota on Tuesday (she&#8217;s running behind Sanders at the moment).
Biden is now just eight delegates behind Sanders, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-buttigieg-exit-bernie-sanders-democrats">according to Fox News, </a>further exits could help him close the gap, as could big wins on Super Tuesday, where nearly 1,400 delegates are up for grabs in more than a dozen states.

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Trump Mocks Dems Over Buttigieg Exit: ‘They’re Taking Bernie Out Of Play’

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President Donald Trump responded to the news that Democrat presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg was dropping out of the race on Sunday by mocking Buttigieg&#8217;s failed campaign and saying that this was part of a larger plan by Democrats to block socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) from getting the nomination.
Trump tweeted, &#8220;Pete Buttigieg is OUT. All of his SuperTuesday votes will go to Sleepy Joe Biden. Great timing. This is the REAL beginning of the Dems taking Bernie out of play &#8211; NO NOMINATION, AGAIN!&#8221;
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Pete Buttigieg is OUT. All of his SuperTuesday votes will go to Sleepy Joe Biden. Great timing. This is the REAL beginning of the Dems taking Bernie out of play &#8211; NO NOMINATION, AGAIN!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1234263037110083587?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Tim Murtaugh, Director of Communications for the Trump campaign, responded to the news by writing on Twitter, &#8220;Apparently insufferable condescension just wasn’t what voters were looking for.&#8221;
On Saturday, after Democrat presidential candidate Tom Steyer dropped out of the race, Trump tweeted, &#8220;Democrats are working hard to destroy the name and reputation of Crazy Bernie Sanders, and take the nomination away from him!&#8221;
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Democrats are working hard to destroy the name and reputation of Crazy Bernie Sanders, and take the nomination away from him!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1233976658572566529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
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FiveThirtyEight statistician Nate Silver predicted that Buttigieg dropping out may increase the likelihood of a contested convention, writing on Twitter, &#8220;Buttigieg dropping out may actually increase the likelihood of a contested convention. He was polling at &lt;15% almost everywhere on Super Tuesday, meaning he was tracking to get very few delegates, but his votes will help other candidates to get over 15% and get delegates.&#8221;
The majority of Trump&#8217;s tweets on Saturday and Sunday took aim at billionaire Democrat presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg, Joe Biden, and Steyer.
&#8220;Sleepy Joe Biden’s victory in the South Carolina Democrat Primary should be the end of Mini Mike Bloomberg’s Joke of a campaign,&#8221; Trump tweeted. &#8220;After the worst debate performance in the history of presidential debates, Mini Mike now has Biden split up his very few voters, taking many away!&#8221;
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Sleepy Joe Biden’s victory in the South Carolina Democrat Primary should be the end of Mini Mike Bloomberg’s Joke of a campaign. After the worst debate performance in the history of presidential debates, Mini Mike now has Biden split up his very few voters, taking many away!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1233908953026908161?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Congratulations to Sleepy Joe Biden!&#8221; Trump continued.
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Congratulations to Sleepy Joe Biden!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1233977649552384005?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Tom Steyer who, other than Mini Mike Bloomberg, spent more dollars for NOTHING than any candidate in history, quit the race today proclaiming how thrilled he was to be a part of the the Democrat Clown Show,&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;Go away Tom and save whatever little money you have left!&#8221;
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Tom Steyer who, other than Mini Mike Bloomberg, spent more dollars for NOTHING than any candidate in history, quit the race today proclaiming how thrilled he was to be a part of the the Democrat Clown Show. Go away Tom and save whatever little money you have left!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1233987865350148097?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Trump continued, &#8220;I would find it hard to believe that failed presidential candidates Tom Steyer, or Mini Mike Bloombeg, would contribute to the Democrat Party, even against me, after the way they have been treated &#8211; laughed at &amp; mocked. The real politicians ate them up and spit them out!&#8221;
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I would find it hard to believe that failed presidential candidates Tom Steyer, or Mini Mike Bloombeg, would contribute to the Democrat Party, even against me, after the way they have been treated &#8211; laughed at &amp; mocked. The real politicians ate them up and spit them out!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1233990259802767360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Trump continued, &#8220;Mini Mike Bloomberg’s consultants and so-called &#8216;advisors'(how did that advice work out? Don’t ask!), are on the “gravy train” and all making a fortune for themselves pushing Mini hard, when they knew he never had what it takes. Don’t pay them anymore Mike, they led you down a very dark and lonely path! Your reputation will never be the same!&#8221;
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&#8230;..a very dark and lonely path! Your reputation will never be the same!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1234107028295077888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Trump added, &#8220;Mini Mike Bloomberg didn’t bring NYC back, as he said in his fake ad. It was @RudyGiuliani who brought NYC back and who also, with his endorsement, got Mini Mike elected (with barely a thank you). A boring mayor who the people couldn’t stand!&#8221;
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Mini Mike Bloomberg didn’t bring NYC back, as he said in his fake ad. It was <a href="https://twitter.com/RudyGiuliani?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RudyGiuliani</a> who brought NYC back and who also, with his endorsement, got Mini Mike elected (with barely a thank you). A boring mayor who the people couldn’t stand!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1234269356760104961?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 2, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Trump Mocks Buttigieg’s Failed Campaign, Points To Larger Plot By Democrats

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Far-left Democrat presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg is dropping out of the race after a disastrous showing during the South Carolina primary.
Politico reporter Carla Marinucci reported: &#8220;Pete Buttigieg to announce he is out of the presidential race, his staff now hearing the news in campaign call, sources tell us.&#8221;
&#8220;Mr. Buttigieg was trounced in South Carolina’s primary and earned just two percent of the vote from African-Americans, according to early exit polling,&#8221; The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/29/us/politics/buttigieg-black-voters-south-carolina.html">reported</a>. &#8220;What support he received came mostly from young black voters; he appeared to have barely any votes from African-Americans who are 60 and older, according to the exit polling. Black voters decisively backed former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., who won the primary; Senator Bernie Sanders and the hedge fund billionaire Tom Steyer drew low double-digit support from African-Americans.&#8221;
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New! BREAKING <a href="https://twitter.com/PeteButtigieg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PeteButtigieg</a> to announce he is out of the presidential race, his staff now hearing the news in campaign call, sources tell us.
&mdash; Carla Marinucci (@cmarinucci) <a href="https://twitter.com/cmarinucci/status/1234252611546570752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The Associated Press and Fox News also confirmed that Buttigieg was dropping out of the race.
&#8220;Buttigieg had been scheduled to headline a rally in Dallas on Sunday night. The charter plane has been rerouted to South Bend, Ind., where Buttigieg will announce that he is dropping out,&#8221; Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/buttigieg-exits-presidential-race-after-claiming-iowa-win">reported</a>. &#8220;A campaign aide told Fox News that Buttigieg wants to unite the party.&#8221;
Buttigieg had been widely criticized for his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-pete-buttigieg-compares-christianity-ryan-saavedra">attacks</a> on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/buttigieg-says-he-cant-understand-how-christians-can-support-trump-no-compatibility">Christians</a> and for his attacks on Vice President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-pete-buttigiegs-war-on-mike-pence-is-shameful">Mike Pence</a>.
Legal expert Josh Hammer summed up the way that many conservatives viewed Buttigieg, writing on Twitter, &#8220;Pete Buttigieg was, perhaps aside from Eric Swalwell, the single most insufferable member of the 2020 Democratic field. His smugness knew no bounds, his warping of Christian doctrine to suit his worldview was grotesque, and his incessant jihad against Mike Pence was simply gross.&#8221;
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Pete Buttigieg was, perhaps aside from Eric Swalwell, the single most insufferable member of the 2020 Democratic field. His smugness knew no bounds, his warping of Christian doctrine to suit his worldview was grotesque, and his incessant jihad against Mike Pence was simply gross.
&mdash; Josh Hammer (@josh_hammer) <a href="https://twitter.com/josh_hammer/status/1234259237162954753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Buttigieg, who portrayed himself as a moderate Democrat, was anything but that as he held far-left policy views on a wide range of issues.
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/where-does-pete-buttigieg-stand-issues-heres-josh-hammer">highlighted</a> some of Buttigieg&#8217;s extreme policy stances:
<blockquote>Health Care: Buttigieg supports a single-payer health insurance system that would amount to a governmental takeover of health insurance and imposition of socialized medicine in America.
Immigration: Buttigieg supports amnesty for “DREAM Act”-eligible illegal aliens and supports other pro-amnesty policies that would magnetize our border and incentivize Mexican cartels and trafficking rings to make their dangerous treks north. He has been consistently critical of President Donald Trump’s attempts to secure our southern border amidst a hitherto unprecedented deluge of illegal aliens arriving en masse at our beleaguered southern border. He has <a href="https://www.apnews.com/ab60f79dbd7961edc9148a14a3c34196">encouraged illegal aliens to flock</a> to his city of South Bend.
Abortion: Buttigieg is emphatically pro-abortion and has <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1130254523249889281">refused to identify</a> a single legal restriction on abortion that he would support.
Guns: Buttigieg supports “universal” background checks, thereby requiring a government intermediary for all private transfers of firearms. He is a member of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a consortium of pro-gun control mayors. Buttigieg supports a <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/buttigieg-endorses-nationwide-gun-licensing-system">national gun registry</a>, which is a longstanding policy nemesis of Second Amendment supporters. He supports banning the undefinable sub-class of firearms referred to as so-called “assault weapons” — a line of thought that, if taken to its logical conclusion, could <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/42837/hammer-kamala-harriss-flirtation-banning-all-semi-josh-hammer">lead to the banning of all semi-automatic firearms in America</a>.</blockquote>

Pete Buttigieg Dropping Out Of Presidential Race

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On Monday, Pete Buttigieg, who has had a great deal of trouble galvanizing black voters to support him, ran into another roadblock as he joined striking workers protesting against McDonalds in Charleston, South Carolina for a $15 minimum wage. Buttigieg was accosted by roughly a dozen activists from Black Lives Matter chanting, “Pete can&#8217;t be our president, where was $15 in South Bend?”
Buttigieg had to shout through the chanting, according to <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8039209/Buttigieg-gets-trolled-Black-Voters-Matter-activists-McDonalds-worker-strike.html">The Daily Mail</a>, calling, “You deserve a union and we stand with you. No matter who you support, I support you; we support you; we stand together and we will not rest until one job is enough in the United States of America.”
The Daily Mail added, “Brittany Smalls, the Pennsylvania coordinator for Black Voters Matter, said she didn&#8217;t believe Buttigieg truly supported a $15 an hour minimum wage because he didn&#8217;t enact one in South Bend.”
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The Fight for $15 rally is now being heckled with Buttigieg at front of it by Black Voters Matter protesters chanting “Where was $15 in South Bend. Pete can’t be our president.” The worker organizers are pissed. “This is a workers strike. How dare you,” one yelled that them. <a href="https://t.co/U8AYASqxht">pic.twitter.com/U8AYASqxht</a>
&mdash; Steve Contorno (@scontorno) <a href="https://twitter.com/scontorno/status/1232013823659433984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 24, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Buttigieg had to race into a car after the rally as he was chased down by Black Voters Matter protesters. He got into a black SUV without talking to the media and drove away.
&mdash; Steve Contorno (@scontorno) <a href="https://twitter.com/scontorno/status/1232017911281324034?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 24, 2020</a></blockquote>
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As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/outright-lying-pete-buttigieg-grilled-for-false-statements-about-his-record-on-black-arrests/">The Daily Wire</a> reported earlier this month, “Buttigieg was grilled by ABC News during and after the network&#8217;s primary debate on Friday for appearing to lie about his record as mayor of South Bend, Indiana. Specifically, Buttigieg was grilled for falsely claiming that the overall rate of black arrests and marijuana arrests were lower while he was mayor, when in fact, under his leadership, a black person was four times more likely to be arrested for marijuana than a white person. Buttigieg initially dodged the question and talked around it before ABC News pressed him hard on the issue:
ABC NEWS: Right, want to go back to the original question though. How do you explain the increase in black arrests in South Bend under your leadership for marijuana possession?
BUTTIGIEG: And again, the overall rate was lower&#8211;
ABC NEWS: No, there was an increase. The year before you were in office it was lower. Once you [came] in office in 2012, that number went up. In 2018, the last number year that we have a record for, that number was still up.
Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie blasted Buttigieg, saying:
<blockquote>I think the moment that could be a foreshadowing for the future is when Mayor Pete was up there outright lying about his record on African American arrests on marijuana, and Lindsay Davis of ABC challenged him more than any candidate on that stage challenged him tonight. And you saw the look on his face. He looked like a deer in the headlights, and let me tell you, he thinks Lindsay Davis is hard?
If he ever gets on the same stage with Donald Trump, it&#8217;s gonna be a whole different story, who will call him on those things. And I think these other candidates better get serious about calling Mayor Pete on the record in South Bend, and so I think it was a missed opportunity for the other candidates. Elizabeth Warren [gave] him a little bit of a shot on that, but not nearly enough time spent on it.</blockquote>
Last November, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harris-criticizes-buttigieg-for-comparing-black-struggles-to-the-lgbtq-community">criticized</a> Buttigieg for comparing the discrimination that he felt as a gay man to the historic civil rights abuses of black Americans, saying, &#8220;Those of us who&#8217;ve been involved in civil rights for a long time, we know that it is important that we not compare our struggles. It is not productive, it is not smart and strategically, [and] it works against what we need to do which is build coalition.&#8221;

Democratic Presidential Candidate Pete Buttigieg Campaigns Across South Carolina

Buttigieg Trolled By Black Lives Matter Activists: ‘Pete Can’t Be Our President’

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Former South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg &#8220;questioned his third place finish&#8221; in the Nevada caucuses, Monday, suggesting that the official results, which put Buttigieg in third behind Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and former Vice President Joe Biden, were riddled with &#8220;irregularities&#8221; and, in some cases, incomplete.
<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/buttigieg-nevada-caucuses-irregularities-democrats">Fox News reports</a> that Buttigieg&#8217;s campaign sent a letter to the Nevada Democratic Party Sunday night, claiming that &#8220;the process of integrating four days of early voting into in-person caucuses held Saturday was &#8216;plagued with errors and inconsistencies,'&#8221; and suggesting that Buttigieg is owed more votes and, by extension, more delegates.
Media covering the Nevada caucuses did report that some caucus locations were shortstaffed (and some not staffed at all), and campaign officials reportedly admit that &#8220;they received reports that volunteers running caucuses did not appear to follow rules that could have allowed candidates to pick up more support on second rounds of voting.&#8221;
Unlike Iowa, Nevadans can, in some cases, vote in the caucuses beginning on the Sunday before the actual event, leaving it difficult for precinct captains and volunteers without a clear understanding of the process unable to fairly tabulate results. Caucuses, because they occur only once every few years, are often difficult to manage and can prove unwieldy, compared to the more streamlined, balloted primary.
Buttigieg&#8217;s primary complaint, though, is that the Nevada Democratic Party is not being transparent about vote totals. The campaign questioned, also, how Nevada could certify &#8220;official&#8221; results with just around 60% of the precincts reporting in.
“First, release early vote and in-person vote totals by precinct,&#8221; the Buttigieg campaign&#8217;s letter read. &#8220;Second, correct any outstanding second alignment errors identified by presidential campaigns, including ours&#8230;Third, explain anomalies in the data.&#8221;
According to the Buttigieg campaign, their internal calculations have the former South Bend mayor in second, not third, and entitled to the nine delegates awared to Biden instead of the three they received.
“Currently our data shows that this is a razor-thin margin for second place in Nevada, and due to irregularities and a number of unresolved questions we have raised with the Nevada Democratic Party, it’s unclear what the final results will be,” Buttigieg&#8217;s campaign manager told media Sunday, adding that they received &#8220;more than 200 reports&#8221; of caucus errors from Buttigieg supporters.
By Monday, though, that &#8220;razor thin&#8221; margin seemed to have widened. With 96% of the precincts now reporting in, the New York Times has Biden comfortably ahead of Buttigieg, 20% to 13%, and narrowing in on Sanders &#8212; though, in this case, that means losing 46% to 20% instead 46% to 15%.
Nevada Democrats, though, insist that they are not about to replay the Iowa chaos.
&#8220;We laid out our early vote and Caucus Day processes step by step and we communicated these processes to all campaigns,” they told Fox News and other media outlets Monday. “We are continuing to verify and to report results. We never indicated we would release a separate breakdown of early vote and in-person attendees by precinct and will not change our reporting process now. As laid out in our recount guidance, there is a formal method for requesting a challenge of results.”
Buttigieg also challenged the vote totals in Iowa, for the record; the campaign still claims that it won both the popular vote and the delegate count there, despite being awarded the most delegates and narrowly losing the popular vote to Sanders.

Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate In New Hampshire Ahead Of First Primary Contest

Pete Buttigieg Alleges ‘Irregularities’ In Nevada Caucus Vote Count After Joe Biden Snags Second

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On Saturday night, as he saw what momentum he had left fade in the wake of Senator Bernie Sanders&#8217; big win in the Nevada caucuses, Pete Buttigieg again tried to channel former President Barack Obama in an attempt to stay relevant in the race for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. But this time, Buttigieg’s effort to channel Obama went so far as to crib the structure of his appeal from a speech Obama gave the night before his 2008 election.
Here’s Buttigieg’s version as he wrote on Twitter: “If we can light up a high school gym—we can light a neighborhood. If we can light up a neighborhood—we can light a city. If we can light up a city—we can light up our country. If we can light up our country—we can make this nation we love shine once more as a beacon to the world.”
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If we can light up a high school gym—we can light a neighborhood.
If we can light up a neighborhood—we can light a city.
If we can light up a city—we can light up our country.
&mdash; Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) <a href="https://twitter.com/PeteButtigieg/status/1231388185692905474?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 23, 2020</a></blockquote>
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If we can light up our country—we can make this nation we love shine once more as a beacon to the world. <a href="https://t.co/KAVTrD2Y2Q">pic.twitter.com/KAVTrD2Y2Q</a>
&mdash; Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) <a href="https://twitter.com/PeteButtigieg/status/1231388368707182593?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 23, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Now take a look at this: in 2008, in Manassas, Virginia, the night  before he was elected president of the United States, Barack Obama intoned, “One voice can change a room, and if a voice can change a room, then it can change a city, and if it can change a city, it can change a state, and if it can change a state, it can change a nation, and if it can change a nation, it can change the world, Virginia, your voice can change the world tomorrow.”
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Buttigieg has been working hard to pattern himself after Obama for some time, as the leftist <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pete-buttigieg-pitches-barack-obama-iowa-bus-tour-2020-democratic-presidential-primary_n_5dc44e2be4b0d8eb3c91c9f5">Huffington Post</a> acknowledged in November:
<blockquote>If the pitch sounds familiar, that’s because like virtually every element of the latest iteration of Buttigieg’s campaign, it’s designed to emulate the rhetoric, tactics and spirit of former President Barack Obama. During Obama’s first run, he paired a progressive policy platform with soaring descriptions of the United States’ common fabric and appeals to overcome the partisan divisions that separated “red states” and “blue states.” He preached an optimistic faith in the power of the country to renew itself that was just vague enough for moderates and progressives alike to see their values in his platform.</blockquote>
Last October, Buttigieg&#8217;s campaign drew an overt comparison between him and Obama, as <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/468187-buttigieg-draws-comparisons-to-obama-ahead-of-key-iowa-event">The Hill</a> reported:
<blockquote>Buttigieg&#8217;s senior messaging adviser, Larry Grisolano, who held the same position in Obama&#8217;s 2007 campaign, drew the comparison in a fundraising email to supporters ahead of Friday&#8217;s Liberty and Justice Celebration in Des Moines.
&#8220;Voters yearned for change, for someone genuine and sincere,&#8221; Grisolano wrote. &#8220;They were well aware of the country’s mounting challenges, and they were prepared to take a chance on a new approach and new leadership because the same old ways just were not working.&#8221;</blockquote>
BET reported members of the black community didn&#8217;t take kindly to the comparison in a piece titled &#8220;<a href="https://www.bet.com/news/national/2019/11/29/people-are-going-off-over-pete-buttigieg-campaign-comparisons-to.html">People Are Going Off Over Pete Buttigieg Campaign Comparisons To Barack Obama’s.</a>&#8221; One comment read, &#8220;<a class="PrettyLink hashtag customisable" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BUTTIGIEG?src=hash" rel="tag" data-query-source="hashtag_click" data-scribe="element:hashtag">#BUTTIGIEG</a> would have to make a <a class="PrettyLink hashtag customisable" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/instagram?src=hash" rel="tag" data-query-source="hashtag_click" data-scribe="element:hashtag">#instagram</a> video of him and <a class="PrettyLink hashtag customisable" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Obama?src=hash" rel="tag" data-query-source="hashtag_click" data-scribe="element:hashtag">#Obama</a> shooting hoops in order to get <a class="PrettyLink hashtag customisable" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/blackvoters?src=hash" rel="tag" data-query-source="hashtag_click" data-scribe="element:hashtag">#blackvoters</a> interested.&#8221; Another stated, &#8220;Buttigieg isn&#8217;t even comparable to Obama&#8217;s shadow.&#8221;

Democratic Presidential Candidate Pete Buttigieg Holds Town Hall In Virginia

Buttigieg, Desperately Channeling Obama, Tries Cribbing From Obama’s 2008 Election-Eve Speech

As socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) continued to build momentum over the weekend by grabbing up yet more Democratic delegates, this time in Nevada, self-styled &#8220;center-left&#8221; political think tank Third Way posted an urgent open memo to the more moderate Democratic candidates still vying for the nomination. The memo, co-authored by the organization&#8217;s president, details Sanders&#8217; &#8220;stunningly radical political history,&#8221; his &#8220;outrageous support for our enemies,&#8221; &#8220;hopelessly out of touch views on taxes,&#8221; &#8220;preposterous spending plans,&#8221; and willingness to burn down the party for his own agenda.
The <a href="https://www.thirdway.org/memo/stand-up-to-bernie-or-you-and-we-all-lose">memo</a> which was posted on Third Way&#8217;s website and written by Third Way President Jonathan Cowan and Executive VP for Public Affairs Matt Bennett, warns the Democratic candidates that they must &#8220;stand up to Bernie&#8221; or find not only that they have lost the race but the country has lost in the process. The warning begins:
<blockquote>Memo to Vice President Biden; Mayor Bloomberg; Mayor Buttigieg; Senator Klobuchar; and Senator Warren
At the Las Vegas debate, each of you took aim at one another, often to withering effect. But with few exceptions, you declined to really challenge Senator Sanders. If you repeat this strategy at the South Carolina debate this week, you could hand the nomination to Sanders, likely dooming the Democratic Party – and the nation – to Trump and sweeping down-ballot Republican victories in November.</blockquote>
Why the &#8220;dire prediction&#8221;? Because, Cowan and Bennett explain, &#8220;Bernie Sanders is a socialist, and the political toxicity of his self-selected brand cannot be overstated.&#8221;
&#8220;As <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/285563/socialism-atheism-political-liabilities.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">recent polling from Gallup</a> shows, 53% of voters, including 51% of Independents, say they would not vote for &#8216;an otherwise well-qualified candidate for president&#8217; if that candidate is a socialist,&#8221; they write. &#8220;That’s game over.&#8221;
The memo goes on to highlight why Sanders is such a &#8220;toxic&#8221; candidate, including &#8220;His Stunningly Radical Political History&#8221;:
In the early 1980s, Sanders campaigned for <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/bernie-sanders-campaigned-for-marxist-party-in-reagan-era" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">candidates from the Socialist Workers Party</a>.
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<li>The <a href="https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/642/1357/2398821/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">stated goal</a> of the SWP was &#8220;the abolition of capitalism.”</li>
<li>That party called for “the destruction of the bourgeois state,” arguing such an act ‘is a necessary prerequisite for the conquest of state power by the working class.”</li>
<li>Sanders was twice an elector for an SWP candidate for president who <a href="https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/642/1357/2398821/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">once said that</a> American soldiers should “take up their guns and shoot their officers.”</li>
<li>That candidate <a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2016/02/bernie-sanders-radical-past-would-haunt-him-in-a-general-election.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">called for</a> the abolition of the US military.</li>
<li><a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2016/02/bernie-sanders-radical-past-would-haunt-him-in-a-general-election.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Even in Congress</a>, Sanders proposed slashing the military budget by half.</li>
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And &#8220;His Outrageous Support for our Enemies,&#8221;: &#8220;In <a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2016/02/bernie-sanders-radical-past-would-haunt-him-in-a-general-election.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">the middle of the Iran hostage crisis</a>, Sanders’ party &#8216;called for…’solidarity’ with the revolutionary regimes in Iran&#8230;&#8217; How is such an attack in the hands of Trump not disqualifying for many voters?&#8221;
&#8220;His Hopelessly Out of Touch Views on Taxes&#8220;: &#8220;<a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/06/12/bernie_sanders_on_socialism_people_would_be_delighted_to_pay_more_in_taxes.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">On CNN last year</a>, Sanders said that Americans would be &#8216;delighted to pay more in taxes&#8217; to fund his huge new programs. How can he propose a huge new tax increase without saying how much it would be?&#8221;
And &#8220;His Preposterous Spending Plans&#8220;: &#8220;<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/14/politics/bernie-sanders-proposals-cost/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Experts estimate</a> that Sanders’ major proposals would cost a staggering $60 trillion and would <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/14/politics/bernie-sanders-proposals-cost/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">double</a> the size of the government (while his tax plans fall $27 trillion short of paying for it). There’s a reason that, when <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhwAqSSE8pA" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">pressed on the cost of his plans</a>, Sanders simply refuses to answer, saying he actually has no idea and &#8216;no one does.'&#8221;
Cowan and Bennett conclude by warning that for Sanders, &#8220;his party is himself&#8221;:
<ul>
<li>Sanders has <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7088909/Sanders-campaigned-radical-Socialist-Workers-Party-investigated-FBI.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">called the Democratic Party</a> “intellectually and spiritually bankrupt,” so it is no surprise that he routinely has declined the Democratic endorsement for Senate in VT.</li>
<li>In 2011, he suggested it might be a “<a href="https://thinkprogress.org/bernie-sanders-says-it-would-be-a-good-idea-to-primary-president-obama-313b4f05f3c1/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">good idea</a>” to primary President Obama in 2012. He had brought up a potential primary challenge to Obama <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/bernie-sanders-talks-primary-challenge-obama-good-idea-our-democracy-and-democratic-part/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">several times that summer</a>.</li>
<li>After 2016, he worked on the committee to change the DNC rules and now has said (in Las Vegas) that he won’t follow those rules.</li>
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<a href="https://www.thirdway.org/memo/stand-up-to-bernie-or-you-and-we-all-lose">Read Third Way&#8217;s full memo to the remaining Democratic candidates here</a>.

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Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg received a topical question during a rally in Colorado on Saturday when a 9-year-old boy asked him for advice on coming out as gay.
According to <a href="https://abc7.com/amp/5961586/">ABC News</a>, Buttigieg read 9-year-old Zachary Ro&#8217;s question aloud before inviting the boy to join him onstage, prompting thunderous applause and cheers of &#8220;love is love&#8221; from the audience.
&#8220;Would you help me telling the world that I&#8217;m gay, too? I want to be brave like you,&#8221; the question read.
Buttigieg recalled the difficulty of his own coming out story and applauded the boy for revealing his identity before thousands of strangers.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t think you need a lot of advice for me on bravery. You seem pretty strong to me. It took me a long time to tell even my best friend that I was gay, let alone to go out there and tell the world, and to see you willing to come to terms with who you are in a room full of a thousand people, thousands of people you&#8217;ve never met, that&#8217;s really something,&#8221; said Buttigieg.
Buttigieg then proceeded to tell Zachary &#8220;a couple things that might be useful.&#8221;
&#8220;The first thing is that it won&#8217;t always be easy, but that&#8217;s okay, because you know who you are,&#8221; he said, as <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/23/politics/pete-buttigieg-denver-rally-moment/index.html?utm_source=twCNNp&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_term=image&amp;utm_content=2020-02-23T18%3A34%3A02">reported</a> by CNN. &#8220;And that&#8217;s really important because when you know who you are, you have a center of gravity that can hold you together when all kinds of chaos is happening around you.&#8221;
Buttigieg also told Zachary to be mindful of &#8220;who&#8217;s taking their lead from you, who&#8217;s watching you and deciding that they can be a little braver because you have been brave.&#8221;
&#8220;When I was trying to figure out who I was, I was afraid that who I was might mean that I could never make a difference,&#8221; he added. &#8220;And what wound up happening instead is that it&#8217;s a huge part of the difference I get to make. I never could have seen that coming, and you&#8217;ll never know whose life you might be affecting right now, just by standing here. There&#8217;s a lot of power in that.&#8221;
After the rally, Zachary told reporters that Mayor Pete&#8217;s advice inspired him.
&#8220;I just feel inspired by Pete being openly gay and running for president at the same time, and someday, I want to be like him,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I feel like he gave me some really good advice.&#8221;
When asked what advice he&#8217;d give other boys out there in similar situations, Zachary said he would tell them to &#8220;be themselves.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;d probably tell them to just be themselves,” he said. “Don&#8217;t worry about what other people think.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m very proud for him,&#8221; Zachary&#8217;s dad added.
President Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-id-vote-for-a-gay-president">recently exclaimed</a> that he would support an openly gay candidate for office. His comments were made shortly before the openly gay Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell was tapped to be Head of National Intelligence.
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While the Democratic primary debate Wednesday night in Las Vegas, Nevada, has been called the most tumultuous of the primary season, debate hosts NBC and MSNBC have taken the opportunity to pat themselves on the back for the record-shattering ratings.
“NBC News and MSNBC once again made television history with the most-watched Democratic debate ever, averaging nearly 20 million total viewers across the two networks, according to Nielsen Fast National Data,” <a href="http://press.nbcnews.com/2020/02/20/nbc-news-and-msnbc-break-ratings-record-again-with-the-most-watched-democratic-debate-ever/">announced</a> the networks in a joint statement.
The news agencies were particularly proud of achieving record-high ratings among adults between the ages of 25 and 54: “Last night’s debate was also the top-rated Democratic debate ever in the key A25-54 demo and attracted 13.5 million live stream viewers, surpassing any previously hosted debate this election cycle.”
But while the Democratic debate may have been great for the networks, the night was full of moments between candidates that may prove disastrous for long-term party unity.
During the debate, Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of Southbend, Indiana, chastised former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and self-avowed democratic socialist Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) for making Democratic voters choose between two candidates who aren’t actually Democrats.
&#8220;Let&#8217;s put forward somebody who&#8217;s actually a Democrat,&#8221; Buttigieg told the applauding crowd, reports <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/02/19/buttigieg_democrats_shouldnt_have_to_choose_between_candidates_that_want_to_burn_party_down_or_buy_it.html">RealClearPolitics</a>. &#8220;We shouldn&#8217;t have to choose between one candidate who wants to burn this party down and another candidate who wants to buy this party out. We can do better.&#8221;
Also during the debate, Bloomberg nailed Sanders, the current front-runner in national polls, for simultaneously advocating for socialism and having three different homes.
“What a wonderful country we have,” Bloomberg said, as The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bloomberg-nails-socialist-bernie-youre-a-millionaire-with-3-houses">Daily Wire</a> previously reported. “The best known socialist happens to be a millionaire with three houses. What’d I miss here?”
Sanders deflected from the attack by pointing out that it is normal for Vermonters to have a summer home, and that since Sanders works in Washington, it was also appropriate for him to have a home in the nation’s capital.
As the Daily Wire previously reported, another notable feature of the debate was that Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) was on offense almost the entire night, and delivered a particularly devastating attack on Bloomberg for his answer about his alleged treatment of women.
“I hope you heard what [Bloomberg’s] defense was, ‘I’ve been nice to some women,&#8217;” Warren told the crowd after Bloomberg was booed. “That just doesn’t cut it. The mayor has to stand on his record, and what we need to know is exactly what is lurking out there. He has gotten some number of women, dozens, who knows, to sign non-disclosure agreements both for sexual harassment and for gender discrimination in the workplace.”
“We have very few non-disclosure agreements. None of them accuse me of doing anything other than maybe they didn’t like a joke I told,” said Bloomberg, who was promptly booed. “There’s an agreement between two parties that wanted to keep it quiet and that’s up to them. They signed those agreements, and we’ll live with it.”
After some more back-and-forth, Warren responded: “We are not going to beat Donald Trump with a man who has who knows how many non-disclosure agreements and the drip-drip-drip of stories of women saying they have been harassed and discriminated against.”
Other notable remarks from the evening included Warren telling the audience that Bloomberg called women “horse-faced lesbians,” Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) asking Buttigieg if he thought she was “dumb” for not knowing the name of the president of Mexico, and Buttigeig telling Sanders that the budget hole in his proposals was the size of the U.S. economy.
After the debate concluded, President Trump took to twitter and declared Bloomberg’s performance “the worst in the history of debates.”
“Mini Mike Bloomberg’s debate performance tonight was perhaps the worst in the history of debates, and there have been some really bad ones. He was stumbling, bumbling, and grossly incompetent. If this doesn’t knock him out of the race, nothing will. Not so easy to do what I did,” Trump tweeted. 
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Mini Mike Bloomberg’s debate performance tonight was perhaps the worst in the history of debates, and there have been some really bad ones. He was stumbling, bumbling and grossly incompetent. If this doesn’t knock him out of the race, nothing will. Not so easy to do what I did!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1230376522663391232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 20, 2020</a></blockquote>

Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate In Las Vegas Ahead Of Nevada Caucuses

MSNBC Celebrates Debate As ‘Television History’ Amidst Record-Breaking Disaster

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Speaking on <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/buttigieg-brother-in-law-pastor-rhyan-glezman">Fox News</a>, Pastor Rhyan Glezman, the brother-in-law of Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, ripped Buttigieg, asserting,  “everything that Pete is pushing is, it&#8217;s anti-God.” Glezman also accused Buttigieg of “intellectual dishonesty” for saying there was no “compatibility” between being a Trump supporter and believing in the Bible.
Buttigieg was prompted in a CNN townhall on Tuesday by CNN host Erin Burnett, who asked, &#8220;Do you think that it&#8217;s impossible to be a Christian and support Trump?&#8221; Buttigieg responded, &#8220;I&#8217;m not going to tell other Christians how to be Christian, but I will say I cannot find any compatibility between the way this president conducts himself and anything that I find in Scripture.&#8221;
Buttigieg had appeared on ABC’s “The View,” where Meghan McCain asked him about partial-birth abortion and where he drew the line on abortion, to which Buttigieg replied, &#8220;But my point is that it shouldn&#8217;t be up to a government official to draw the line. It should be up to the woman who&#8217;s confronted.&#8221;
Glezman, the senior pastor at the <a href="https://www.cliocommunity.org/about-us">Community Church of God</a> in Clio, Michigan, stated:
<blockquote>Yeah, in the height of intellectual dishonesty for Pete to make claims that there&#8217;s no compatibility with being a Christian and voting for Trump, (when) Pete, in fact, is the one who is pushing agendas and rhetoric that is against, clearly against Scripture. It’s very interesting to me that Pete wants to use that terminology; you played that clip from &#8220;The View&#8221; and I’m just in a state of lament when you hear that we have someone running for commander in chief who can&#8217;t make a moral decision on whether to keep a child after it&#8217;s already been born or to have it killed. What kind of moral suggestions is he going to be given if he can&#8217;t come to an understanding of that? It&#8217;s just, it&#8217;s alarming; it’s extreme; it just concerns me . . . it’s unbelievable.</blockquote>
Asked whether partial-birth abortion was consistent with Christian teaching, Glezman answered, “Absolutely not. You will find nowhere in Scripture — I’d encourage Pete and everyone in America to read Psalm 139, 13 through 16, where God says in his won word that every single person is fearfully and wonderfully made in the image of God.  Go to Jeremiah 1:5 where it talks about God knew us before we ever in our mother’s womb. You know, Jesus says in Scripture, all throughout the New Testament, Jesus says, I’ve come to give life, and to give life more abundantly. Jesus came to give life, not take life.&#8221;
He continued, &#8220;So this is completely against the word of God; it’s outlandish for someone like Pete to be pushing this pro-abortion, anti-God rhetoric like he is on the campaign trail.&#8221;
Glezman concluded, “Just everything that Pete is pushing is, it&#8217;s anti-God. I&#8217;m just gonna be honest with you. Nothing lines up with Scripture, and for him to make cases like to say that you cannot be a Christian and vote for Trump, he&#8217;s the one that is openly contradicting God&#8217;s word over and over. I know he uses Scripture over and over because he knows the importance to the American people of what the Founding Fathers founded America on, which was Judeo-Christian values.&#8221;
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Democratic Presidential Candidates Attend &#8220;Moving America Forward&#8221; Forum At UNLV

Buttigieg’s Pastor Brother-In-Law: ‘Everything That Pete Is Pushing Is, It’s Anti-God’

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Wednesday night, the Democratic Party held yet another presidential debate that featured more blows and counterblows, some quite damaging, and a new face on the stage. So as the dust settles, who of the remaining scratching and clawing candidates has the best shot of securing the nomination?
Despite the chaos amid the still-crowded field, the betting world thinks the nomination picture is getting a whole lot more simple. The race, according to oddsmakers, is coming down to two candidates: one a socialist who&#8217;s so far left he refuses to put a &#8220;D&#8221; next to his name and the other a former Republican.
In late November, three Democratic presidential candidates were hovering in the mid- to low-20s in <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/elections/betting_odds/democratic_2020_nomination/">the betting odds</a>: former Vice President Joe Biden (25.3% chance), Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren (25.3%), and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg (21.4%). Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders wasn&#8217;t too far behind, bettors giving him a 15.9% of taking the nomination. Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, a late entry into the race, was way down at 5.3%.
After the Iowa and New Hampshire primary contests, the odds look a lot different now for all of the key players. Former frontrunners Biden and Warren have seen their chances plummet — Biden&#8217;s precipitous fall beginning in late January and Warren&#8217;s less steep but longer decline starting way back in October.
According to Real Clear Politics&#8217; latest averages of the various betting sites, Biden has collapsed from a high of 37.9% on January 20 to a grim 9.8% as of February 19. Warren peaked on October 13 at a field-burying 53.9% chance of winning the nomination. As of February 19, she&#8217;s all the way down at a dismal 3.6% (which is beneath Hillary Clinton, who&#8217;s not even in the race but who oddsmakers are saying still has a 4.9% chance of winning).
Buttigieg reached a high of 22.5% on December 7 but has since dipped way down to 5.3%, surged back after Iowa to 16.4%, but has since declined again, currently sitting at 12.6%.
The fortunes of Sanders and Bloomberg have vastly improved in recent weeks. In almost an exact inverse of Biden&#8217;s plummet, Bloomberg&#8217;s chances have spiked starting in late January. On Feb. 13, oddsmakers gave him a 34.6% chance of winning but have cooled a little on him since. As of Feb. 19, Bloomberg is being given a 25.6% chance, making him the second-favorite by a sizable margin over the third-place Buttigieg.
Sanders, meanwhile, is now by far the leading candidate. Having gotten the second-most votes in Iowa, winning New Hampshire, and leading in key polls in Nevada, the democratic socialist now enjoys a dominating 50% chance of winning the nomination. Most promising for Sanders is that his rise has been a months-long steady improvement that demonstrates a more consistent trend than other candidates&#8217; short-lived spikes.
As Bloomberg&#8217;s rise has inversely mirrored Biden&#8217;s decline, so has Sanders&#8217; ascension occurred as fellow radical Warren has fallen off. Starting in mid-October, when Warren was at her height, Sanders has steadily climbed from a 6% chance of winning to his current high, while Warren fell from over 53% to under 4%.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/still-in-play-dem-candidates-roil-progressives-by-admitting-they-want-superdelegates-to-weigh-in-on-2020-nomination">Still In Play: Dem Candidates Roil Progressives By Admitting They Want Superdelegates To Weigh In On 2020 Nomination</a>

Democratic Debate

Oddsmakers Say Democratic Race Just Got A Whole Lot Simpler

The Democratic presidential primary debate was momentarily derailed after Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) was asked to explain why she was unable to name the president of Mexico during a recent interview with Telemundo, the American Spanish-language news network. 
“I don’t think that the momentary forgetfulness actually reflects what I know about Mexico and how much I care about it,” Klobuchar told the moderators. “But when it comes to Mexico, I am the one person on this stage that came out first to say I was for the U.S.-Mexican-Canadian trade agreement. That is going to be one of the number one duties of a president – is to implement that.”
After moderator Vanessa Hauc, who works for Telemundo, pressed Klobuchar on the incident further, Klobuchar retorted: “That’s right. I said I made an error. I think that having a president that maybe is humble, and is able to admit that here and there maybe wouldn’t be a bad thing.”
Hauc then asked Pete Buttigieg for his two cents, as the former mayor was actually successful in naming the Mexican president during a recent interview. “I wouldn’t liken this to trivia,” said Buttigieg, who then directed an attack back at Klobuchar. 
“But you’re staking your candidacy on your Washington experience,” said the former mayor. “You’re on the committee that oversees border security. You’re on the committee that does trade. You’re literally part of the committee that oversees those things.”
Klobuchar then issued a strong response to Buttigieg: “Are you trying to say that I’m dumb? Are you mocking me, Pete? I said I made an error.” 
The Minnesota senator then volleyed an attack about electability against Buttigieg: “I am the one, not you, that has won statewide in congressional district after congressional district. And I will say, when you tried to run in Indiana, Pete, what happened to you? You lost by over 20 points.”
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who was on offense the entire debate, then came to the defense of Klobuchar, calling the ability to memorize a name silly. 
“This is not right. I understand that she forgot a name. It happens. It happens to everybody on this stage,” Warren told the crowd, implying that the question was trivia-like in nature. “Let’s just be clear, missing a name all by itself does not indicate that you do not understand what’s going on. I just think this is unfair.”
During the series of tangents, former Vice President Joe Biden tried to chime in, unsuccessfully, on account that he had previously met the president of Mexico. Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT), not wanting to be the only one not to offer his opinion on the matter – aside from former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg – responded to Biden with an enthusiastic “Si!”
Following a short break, a debate moderator jokingly asked the primary candidates if they were ready “to play some Nevada trivia.”

Chaos Erupts After Mexico Trivia Question; Klobuchar To Buttigieg: ‘You Trying To Say That I’m Dumb?’

Amy Klobuchar

Mexico

During the NBC Democratic presidential debate on Wednesday night, former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg ripped into socialist Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) over his health care plan.
Buttigieg hammered Sanders over his lack of transparency, hitting the senator for repeatedly stating that he doesn&#8217;t know the cost of this own plan, and has only outlined tax hikes, including on folks in the lower-middle class, to pay for a fraction of the estimated cost.
Sanders &#8220;said it was impossible to even know how much it&#8217;s going to cost, and even after raising taxes on everybody making $29,000, there is still a multi-trillion dollar hole,&#8221; Buttigieg said of Sanders&#8217; pricey Medicare for All plan.
&#8220;Matter of fact,&#8221; the former mayor continued, &#8220;if you add up all his policies together, they come to $50 trillion. He&#8217;s only explained $25 trillion worth of revenue, which means the hole in there is bigger than the size of the entire economy of the United States.&#8221;
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On if Bernie Sanders&#39;s release of doctors&#39; notes in lieu of full medical records is sufficient, Pete Buttigieg says, &quot;No, it&#39;s not,&quot; says, &quot;I am certainly prepared to get a physical, put out the results, I think everybody here should be willing to do the same.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/fgvkHNp4iW">pic.twitter.com/fgvkHNp4iW</a>
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Buttigieg hammers Bernie on lack of transparency on his healthcare plan costs <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DemDebate?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DemDebate</a> <a href="https://t.co/uTq3NeUkqd">pic.twitter.com/uTq3NeUkqd</a>
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Earlier in the debate, Buttigieg hit Sanders for being &#8220;polarizing&#8221; and &#8220;not even a Democrat.&#8221;
&#8220;We have got to wake up as a party,&#8221; Buttigieg said, according to <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/02/19/bernie-sanders-turns-red-in-fiery-exchange-with-pete-buttigieg-at-democrat-debate/">Breitbart News</a>. &#8220;We could wake up two weeks from today, the day after Super Tuesday, and the only candidates left standing will be Bernie Sanders and Mike Bloomberg, the two most polarizing figures on this stage.&#8221;
&#8220;And most Americans don’t see where they fit if they have got to choose between a socialist who thinks that capitalism is the root of all evil, and a billionaire that thinks that money ought to be the root of all power,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Let’s put forward somebody who actually lives and works in a middle-class neighborhood in an industrial Midwestern city. Let’s put forward somebody who’s actually a Democrat.&#8221;
Sanders responded: &#8220;If speaking to the needs and the pain of a long-neglected working class is &#8216;polarizing&#8217; – I think you have got the wrong word. What we are trying, finally, to do is to give a voice to people who, after 45 years of work, are not making a nickel more than they did 45 years ago. We are giving a voice to people who are saying, we are sick and tired of billionaires like Mr. Bloomberg seeing huge expansions of their wealth while a half a million people sleep out on the street tonight. And that’s all what we are saying, Pete, is maybe it’s time for the working class for this country to have a little bit of power in Washington, rather than your billionaire campaign contributors.&#8221;
&#8220;We can actually deliver health care without taking it away from anyone,&#8221; Buttigieg retorted. &#8220;We can actually empower workers and lift wages without further polarizing this country. And we can build a movement without having legions of our supporters online and in person attacking Democratic figures and union leaders alike.&#8221;
The former mayor also said Sanders was not being transparent enough with his health. &#8220;I am certainly prepared to get a physical, put out the results. I think everybody here should be willing to do the same.&#8221;
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We shouldn&#39;t have to choose between one candidate who wants to burn this party down and one candidate who wants to buy this party out. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DemDebate?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DemDebate</a> <a href="https://t.co/iE8syCzv17">pic.twitter.com/iE8syCzv17</a>
&mdash; Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) <a href="https://twitter.com/PeteButtigieg/status/1230316299026300932?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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WATCH: Buttigieg Demolishes Sanders On Healthcare, Socialist Plans

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On Sunday, Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg told a group of supporters that he favors allowing illegal immigrants to have access to Obamacare, stating, “As you know, in the Affordable Care Act, one of the many missing pieces that it has is that the exchanges are not available to the undocumented. I would change that.”
Buttigieg was speaking at a private home in Henderson, Nevada, at a “fireside chat” event hosted by Planned Parenthood, according to <a href="https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/at-planned-parenthood-event-buttigieg-says-hell-address-health-care-for-underserved-communities-transgender-people">The Nevada Independent</a>. He stated, “I know that all the sizzle in the debate right now is about Medicare for all versus the alternatives … And of course, I think my plan is the best plan. But, it doesn’t so much matter if you’re covered if you can’t get access.”
Buttigieg also reportedly stated to a DACA recipient, &#8220;First of all, this should go w/o saying but it&#8217;s important to say out loud, that I regard you and all DACA recipients as American as I am or anybody else in this room.&#8221;
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A DACA recipient asks Buttigieg how he&#39;d fix access to health care for the undocumented like her- he tells her &quot;first of all, this should go w/o saying but it&#39;s important to say out loud, that I regard you and all DACA recipients as American as I am or anybody else in this room.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/iV2BI9uFJX">pic.twitter.com/iV2BI9uFJX</a>
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Buttigieg added, “One thing that will be core to the plan that I’m creating is to ensure that Medicare will launch its plan that robustly supports, reimburses, and funds that care and can tell the difference when there is an area that’s underserved and incentivize more to be serving there.”
Buttigieg spoke of the Federal Equality Act, stating he would sign it as soon as it was “on his desk” if he were elected president. The <a href="https://www.heritage.org/gender/heritage-explains/the-equality-act">Heritage Foundation</a> has said of that bill that it would add “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” as protected classes under federal civil rights law.The Heritage Foundation added, &#8220;Where the original Civil Rights Act of 1964 furthered equality by ensuring that African-Americans had equal access to public accommodations and material goods, the Equality Act would further inequality by penalizing everyday Americans for their beliefs about marriage and biological sex. Similar sexual orientation and gender identity laws at the state and local level have already been used in this way.”
The Heritage Foundation named five groups that would be negatively affected by the bill, explaining:
<blockquote>Employers and Workers: The Equality Act would force employers and workers to conform to new sexual norms or else lose their businesses and jobs … Medical Professionals: The Equality Act would force hospitals and insurers to provide and pay for these therapies against any moral or medical objections. It would politicize medicine by forcing professionals to act against their best medical judgment and provide transition-affirming therapies … Parents and Children: This politicization of medicine would ultimately harm families by normalizing hormonal and surgical interventions for gender dysphoric children as well as ideological “education” in schools and other public venues …
Women: The Equality Act would ultimately lead to the erasure of women by dismantling sex-specific facilities, sports, and other female-only spaces … Non-Profits and Volunteers: The Equality Act would also hurt charities, volunteers, and the populations they serve. State and local sexual orientation and gender identity laws have shut down numerous faith-based adoption and foster care agencies across the country.</blockquote>
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Democratic Presidential Candidates Attend Clark County Democrats Rally At The Tropicana In Las Vegas

Buttigieg: Illegal Immigrants Should Have Access To Obamacare

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On Friday, a <a href="https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/nevada/sanders-holds-lead-heading-into-nevadas-democratic-caucuses-poll-finds-1957583/">new poll</a> from Las Vegas Review-Journal and AARP Nevada was released showing Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in the lead.
The poll, which was conducted between February 11 &#8211; 13 by WPA Intelligence and has a margin of error of +/- 4.8%, asked “413 likely caucus attendees” the following question: “If the Democratic caucuses for nomination for U.S. president were held today, for whom would you vote?”
25% of respondents said that they would vote for Sanders. In second place with 18% support was former Vice President Joe Biden. Third place went to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) with 13%. Rounding out the top six were billionaire Tom Steyer with 11%, and Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) tied with 10% each.
It should be noted that 13% of those surveyed were “undecided” or for “other” candidates.
According to the <a href="https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/nevada/sanders-holds-lead-heading-into-nevadas-democratic-caucuses-poll-finds-1957583/">Las Vegas Review-Journal</a>, WPA research director Trevor Smith said that the debate on Wednesday might have some impact, but possibly nothing significant, given the timing and early voting.
The progressive block is pretty locked up, according to Smith.
“He noted that Sanders had a firm grip on voters who identified as very liberal (33 percent for Sanders) and somewhat liberal (31 percent),” reports the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “Warren is competing for the very liberal with 32 percent of their support, but not anywhere else.”
As for Buttigieg, though he is polling at just 10%, his “support in the poll was evenly split among very liberal (14 percent), somewhat liberal (9 percent) and moderate (11 percent) voters,” showing a cross-ideology appeal.
Perhaps the most interesting part of the poll was that for 56% of respondents, stopping President Trump was priority number one, while Medicare for All was in second with just 9%.
Sanders has been able to ride a wave of Democratic voter enthusiasm despite the Iowa Caucus debacle, which initially looked like it could have sucked the oxygen from his campaign.
In Iowa, Buttigieg narrowly beat out Sanders by 0.1% (26.2% to 26.1%), and was awarded 13 delegates to Sanders’ 12 delegates, according to the <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=iowa+caucus+results&amp;rlz=1C9BKJA_enUS876US876&amp;oq=iowa+cau&amp;aqs=chrome.2.69i57j0j69i59j69i60l2j69i61.3492j0j7&amp;hl=en-US&amp;sourceid=chrome-mobile&amp;ie=UTF-8">Associated Press</a>, despite Sanders appearing to win the <a href="https://www.politico.com/2020-election/results/iowa/">popular vote</a>.
Sanders went on to win the <a href="https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C9BKJA_enUS876US876&amp;hl=en-US&amp;sxsrf=ACYBGNT9uhdYdLp3hvMoMhbs7J-GI91QlA%3A1581889998465&amp;ei=zrlJXt2FHJOrytMPmvKJqAk&amp;q=new+hampshire+primary+results&amp;oq=new+hampshire+primary+&amp;gs_l=mobile-gws-wiz-serp.1.1.35i39j0i131l2j0j0i131j0i20i263j0i67j0i131.1582.1582..2646...0.1..0.256.256.2-1......0....1.........0i71.MZypSaGX0aQ">New Hampshire primary</a> with 25.7% of the vote to second place Pete Buttigieg’s 24.4% and third place Amy Klubuchar’s 19.8%.
Prior to this latest Nevada poll (as well as one taken in January), surveys showed Joe Biden with a commanding lead dating back to August 2019. Now, according to the <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/nv/nevada_democratic_presidential_caucus-6866.html">RealClearPolitics</a> average, Sanders sits atop the field by a margin of 3%.
In South Carolina, where Biden needs to do well in order to continue in the Democratic race, new polls show the former vice president falling, with Sanders and Steyer rising. South Carolinians go to the polls on February 29.
Following South Carolina is Super Tuesday, where 14 states and one territory will hold their primaries and caucuses. As of publication (and the polling in many of these states isn’t fresh), Sanders <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/SuperTuesday.html">leads</a> in California, Utah, and Colorado. Biden <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/SuperTuesday.html">leads</a> in Texas, North Carolina, Virginia, and Oklahoma.
The results in Nevada and South Carolina will certainly have an impact on those numbers moving forward.

Sen. Bernie Sanders

POLL: Sanders Leads In Nevada By 7%

National Democrats have been doing what they could to keep Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) from being their presidential candidate, a wise move from the party considering the candidate is openly socialist but is actually a communist.
Yet Democratic primary voters seem fairly intent on choosing Sanders as their nominee. Sanders currently has 21 delegates based on just the first two primary states – Iowa and New Hampshire. South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg has 22 thanks to getting one extra delegate in Iowa, though the results of that caucus are quite suspect.
A new Morning Consult <a href="https://morningconsult.com/2020/02/13/sanders-cements-front-runner-status-after-new-hampshire-win/">poll</a> found Sanders now has a 10-point lead over his closest challenger, former Vice President Joe Biden. Biden has obtained only six delegates so far in the primary.
“The latest <a href="https://morningconsult.com/2020/02/13/sanders-cements-front-runner-status-after-new-hampshire-win/">Morning Consult poll</a> finds Sanders at 29 percent support, followed by former Vice President Joe Biden at 19 percent and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg at 18 percent. Sanders gained 3 points in the poll after winning the New Hampshire primary this week, while Biden lost 3 points after a disastrous fifth-place showing,” The Hill <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/482969-sanders-builds-double-digit-national-lead-poll?amp">reported</a>.
The outlet noted also that Sanders received more votes in the Iowa caucuses while receiving one less delegate than Buttigieg – a microcosm of the Democrats’ complaints about the national popular vote vs. the Electoral College.
Buttigieg came in second place in the New Hampshire primary while taking as many delegates as Sanders. The South Bend mayor clocked in at 11% in the Morning Consult poll, putting him in fourth place in the poll.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) continues to follow the front runners in fifth place in the Morning Consult poll, taking 10% of respondents’ votes. She has a total of eight delegates, which she obtained in the Iowa caucuses. Next in the poll came Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-M), who came in third place in the New Hampshire primary. She takes 5% in the Morning Consult poll.
More from The Hill:
<blockquote>Electability is the top issue on voters&#8217; minds and Sanders is now viewed as the best positioned to defeat President Trump, with 29 percent saying he&#8217;s most electable, followed by Bloomberg at 25.
Biden&#8217;s electability case has taken a severe hit after fourth- and fifth-place finishes in Iowa and New Hampshire, dropping from 29 percent earlier this month to 17 percent in the latest poll.
Biden is hoping that the black voters who have been the backbone of his support stick with him as the contests turn to the more diverse states of Nevada and South Carolina.</blockquote>
But as The Hill reported, black voters are less confident Biden could beat President Donald Trump, showing a 10-point drop in their belief the former vice president had the best chance to beat the incumbent president in the latest poll. Black voters in the Democrat primary now say Sanders has a better shot of defeating Trump. Biden is tied with Bloomberg on this question.
A whopping 46% of respondents said Biden’s fifth-place showing in New Hampshire made them less likely to believe he was the best candidate to oust Trump.

New National Poll Gives Bernie Sanders Double-Digit Lead

National Horserace And Looking Ahead
In terms of the national horserace (for whatever such a metric may even be worth, at this point!), Soviet Union-honeymooning socialist loon bag Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has officially overtaken the rest of the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primary field. <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/2020_democratic_presidential_nomination-6730.html">Sanders currently stands 4.4% above second-place former Vice President Joe Biden</a> in the average of recent national polling. Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (who will not actually be in a primary race until Super Tuesday in a few weeks), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg round out the top five in most recent national polling.
Officially, Bernie Sanders is the <a href="https://www.creators.com/read/ben-shapiro/02/20/why-the-democrats-wont-stop-bernie">clear</a> and <a href="https://www.predictit.org/markets/detail/3633/Who-will-win-the-2020-Democratic-presidential-nomination">unequivocal</a> frontrunner for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. Unofficially, Bloomberg <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-bloomberg-makes-major-moves-after-democrats-screw-up-iowa-caucuses">seems to be gambling</a> that, with his carpet-bombing the airwaves and with his general war chest, he will be able to outlast a rapidly languishing Biden and prove to be the Democratic National Committee&#8217;s (DNC) last man standing in the way of a polarizing Sanders nomination. Of course, query whether the DNC would even be interested in lining up behind Bloomberg, who ran for New York City mayor as a Republican and had a rather controversial video resurface yesterday, if it were to ultimately come down to a Bloomberg versus Sanders long march to next summer&#8217;s nominating convention.
The obvious question, at this point, is whether anyone in the Democratic field (or perhaps not even presently in the field) can ultimately overtake Sanders. Large swaths of the Democratic Party&#8217;s institutional apparatus have been publicly fretting over the prospect of a Sanders nomination, as some within the more moderate older guard (not unreasonably) fear nominating someone with a decades-long track record of praising actual communist regimes, calling for the nationalization of entire industries, and so forth. But for the time being, it seems like Bernie Sanders is on cruise control. Polling in the upcoming caucus state of Nevada is very sparse, but Sanders should certainly be considered the favorite there, at this juncture.
State-By-State Results Since Last Week
Last night marked the first-in-the-nation Democratic presidential primary in New Hampshire. Bernie Sanders was the night&#8217;s big winner, as The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-socialist-bernie-sanders-wins-new-hampshire">reported</a>. Entrepreneur Andrew Yang also ended his long shot bid earlier in the evening; I&#8217;d expect Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) to become the next candidate to follow Yang&#8217;s lead and drop out.
Here are the full New Hampshire results, as <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/02/11/us/elections/results-new-hampshire-live-forecast.html">reported by The New York Times</a>:
<ol>
<li>Sanders 26%</li>
<li>Buttigieg 24%</li>
<li>Klobuchar 20%</li>
<li>Warren 9%</li>
<li>Biden 8%</li>
<li>Steyer 4%</li>
<li>Yang 3%</li>
</ol>
There are hardly any words to describe the simply calamitous nature of erstwhile national front runner Joe Biden&#8217;s start to this 2020 Democratic Party presidential nominating contest. He has now severely underperformed in both Iowa and New Hampshire, leaving his campaign&#8217;s future looking <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/11/biden-donors-divided-on-his-prospects-after-new-hampshire-primary-loss.html?__source=sharebar%7Ctwitter&amp;par=sharebar">exceedingly grim</a>. I&#8217;d expect him to bow out by the time South Carolina is over.
Latest National Polling Data
The <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/2020_democratic_presidential_nomination-6730.html">RealClearPolitics</a> polling average for 2/04 – 2/11 shows Sanders with an average national polling lead of 4.4%. Here is the latest in national polling, via RealClearPolitics:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_uploads/document/79zfxkws33/econTabReport.pdf">Economist/YouGov</a> (2/09 – 2/11): Sanders 22%, Biden 18%, Warren 15%, Bloomberg 12%, Buttigieg 10%</li>
<li><a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-primary-d/">The Hill/HarrisX</a> (2/07 – 2/10): Biden 23%, Sanders 20%, Bloomberg 16%, Warren 9%, Buttigieg 9%</li>
<li><a href="https://www.monmouth.edu/polling-institute/reports/monmouthpoll_US_021120/">Monmouth</a> (2/06 – 2/09): Sanders 26%, Biden 16%, Warren 13%, Buttigieg 13%, Bloomberg 11%</li>
<li><a href="https://poll.qu.edu/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=3655">Quinnipiac</a> (2/05 – 2/09): Sanders 25%, Biden 17%, Bloomberg 15%, Warren 14%, Buttigieg 10%</li>
<li><a href="https://morningconsult.com/2020-democratic-primary/">Morning Consult</a> (2/04 – 2/09): Sanders 25%, Biden 22%, Bloomberg 17%, Warren 11%, Buttigieg 11%</li>
</ul>
Latest Upcoming State-By-State Polling Data
Nevada: Biden 21.0%, Sanders 17.5%, Warren 11.5%, Steyer 10.0%, Buttigieg 7.0%
South Carolina: Biden 31%, Steyer 18.5%, Sanders 17.0%, Warren 9.5%, Buttigieg 5.5%
This article has been updated to reflect the most recent survey data.

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