Midwestern mayor Buttigieg wows progressive Dems in San Francisco

Midwestern mayor Buttigieg wows progressive Dems in San Francisco

By CARLA MARINUCCI at Politico

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/29/pete-buttigieg-san-francisco-1243203

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The success, he said, may be pegged to a rare combination of being a candidate who "is young and attractive and has command over myriad issues" and “speaks with an easy confidence without sounding wonkish or arrogant."

“There is an aura of freshness and youthful enthusiasm around him,” Malloy said of Buttigieg, an Afghan war veteran and Rhodes scholar who speaks half a dozen languages.

Malloy added that “comparisons will be made with Beto O'Rourke in that he is not on the attack, tearing into the administration, rather a forward-looking candidate of ideas.’’

Longtime Bay Area Democratic insider Martha Whetstone, who showed up for Buttigieg’s San Francisco appearance, said his CNN Town Hall in March — his first national introduction to voters — put him on the map for many Democrats like herself. She says she watched him navigate complex issues with awe and with the kind of natural communication skills she hadn’t seen for years — perhaps since her longtime friend and fellow Arkansas native, former President Bill Clinton.



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