The honeymoon, it’s safe to say, is over. And Pete Buttigieg knows that how he handles the next phase of the campaign will determine whether his meteoric rise is followed by just as fast of a fall.
STORM LAKE, Iowa — Pete Buttigieg clambered into the top tier of presidential candidates by presenting an optimistic, youthful vision for the country. To stay there, he’s grappling with his failures.
"I think it's one thing when you're introducing yourself. You're sticking up your hand, you're saying 'Hi,' you're saying, ‘I exist,’” Buttigieg said recently on the sidelines of an event in Iowa, reflecting on the state of the campaign. “Now, it's very different.” Buttigieg has built his campaign and political biography more around the idea of being a mayor than the complicated dynamics it can dredge up. "What could be more different from this president than a laid back, middle-class, millennial mayor from the industrial Midwest?" Buttigieg told a crowd during a recent campaign stop in Sioux City.
In recent weeks, Buttigieg has added more to his stump speech about his mayoralty, weaving in his perspective about racial justice. And in Q&As during his stops in Iowa, Buttigieg fields questions on gun violence and race relations in South Bend.
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