Before, Pete Buttigieg drew polite interest from Iowans. Now, he has masses of fans.

Pete Buttigieg looked out into the Iowa crowd, which stretched several rows deep.

“What a meet-and-greet,” he said to laughter from the Des Moines audience of more than 1,000.

When Buttigieg told Iowans in early February that he wanted to be president, the Democrat faced a group of about two dozen at an Ames coffee shop. Half appeared to really be there for the coffee; a bean-grinding machine drowned out parts of his remarks.

Two months later, word of Buttigieg’s return brought a different kind of crowd outside a Des Moines junior high school. The town hall event, originally scheduled to be indoors, was moved outside to accommodate the masses.

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