South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg, a Democratic candidate for president, in Fort Dodge, Iowa, on April 16. By Greg Sargent Greg Sargent Opinion writer covering national politics Email Bio Follow Opinion writer April 24 at 4:19 PM The other day, Pete Buttigieg took heat for seeming to compare supporters of Bernie Sanders with supporters of President Trump.
In an interview, Mr. Buttigieg said Mr. Sanders’s left-wing proposals were no longer as provocative as in 2016 — “people were refreshed by the novelty of that boldness” — and expressed skepticism that a self-described democratic socialist in his late 70s could win a general election. There are two separate claims here. The first is that Sanders’ success in the 2016 Democratic primaries was driven by the “novelty" of his agenda’s general “boldness.
There is probably some truth to all of those explanations — obviously, they can overlap in various ways — and it’s clear that the “novelty” theory is far less convincing. Right now, Sanders seems to command the support on average of slightly more than 20 percent of Democratic primary voters nationally. That’s down from the 43 percent he ended up winning in 2016, but as FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver points out, you’d expect that to be down, given how much more crowded the field is.
Buttigieg has sometimes suggested that he has a better understanding of voters from left-behind rural and industrial areas than other Democrats. Like other candidates from the industrial Midwest, he sometimes treats winning those voters as mainly a matter of refraining from sneering at them the way those other coastal elitist candidates do.
Dude, you have officially lost my support.
You blew it ! I personally don’t want to hear our Democratic Candidates bash one of their own. It is what I absolutely hated about DT’s campaign!
This overlooks the fact that Bernie promises people free stuff. He is reckless and dishonest in his policy proposals. With this and his bombast he’s a little bit Trumpian.
Another fine example of a dem candidate ensuring the re-election of President Trump 😂
I see that you're an opinion writer. Well, here's my opinion. You're taking Buttigieg's words out of context. He's making an apt analogy only in terms of the anti-establishment perspective while stating that trump and sanders couldn't be more far apart from each other.
This guys SUCKS
Caution consider the source is written by a Bernie supporter, Pete is right about the comparisons, Bernie won’t win bc he won’t get the female black vote, see She the People
from everything I’ve seen in Pence and Buttigieg, liberal or conservative it’s clear that Indiana mothers raise the nation’s worst white men. Florida is 2nd. Behind Indiana. Do you hear me Indiana? Worse white men than Florida.
No, elite pundits, you don't get to decide this.
Pete is bought and paid for Bernie is more experienced Bernie can take him down in a heartbeat Bernie2020Only
How many statewide elections has Pete Buttigieg won? Who’s more electable? Bernie2020 TaxTheRich POTUS POTUS46
Bernie is a self-professed 'socialist' (full term 'democratic socialist'). That's a political liability, whether Bernie or his supporters want to recognize it. This is a capitalist society, and the European nations that Bernie frequently refers to are also capitalist societies.
Here we go: everyone’s platform is to identify how everyone else is wrong, misguided etc..how about your own platform without knocking others dontlikeberniethough
a bad-faith take from a bad-faith actor
BernieSucks
Great, right. So write articles about women
Divisive Pete.
The Dems are starting to stab each other in the back! Maybe Pete is made that Bernie refused to have sex with him?
This man attacks Pence every chance he gets and I have yet to find anywhere that Pence has ever been more than gracious about him. I think it is an early sign of the kind of guy he is and will never get my vote.
The Sanders Post strikes again
now this is a take i can get behind!
The media wants to make this about some internal fight. They are both 1000 times better than Trump. Trump is the opponent.
Pete is correct
Anything but YangGang2020 is wrong.
Is it really? Or is there documented evidence from the media?
He's right. You're wrong. Good night.
Bernie would have won!
PeteButtigieg any regrets
You are so predictable...
He is right about Bernie
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