, Pete Buttigieg's rivals are scrambling to find vulnerabilities and lines of attack that can be used against him, five officials with opposing Democratic primary campaigns and Republican political groups tell NBC News.
— known in political parlance as"opposition research" — that could be deployed against them. Major political groups had entire books of"oppo" ready to go by the time those candidates entered the race. Biden is expected to enter formally this week.. As a millennial who has never held an office higher than mayor of a midsize town, his record is largely unexamined.
Until the last few weeks, the only group that had kept close tabs on Buttigieg and actively pushed back on him was the Indiana Republican Party. Officials said the state party took notice when Buttigieg in 2017 ran for Democratic National Committee chair, taking it as a sign that his ambitions extended beyond South Bend, population just over 100,000.
As Democrat’s lets all work together to nominate the best one on politics and to beat trump no fighting among ourselves VoteBlueNoMatterWho
The fact that they may be doing this saddens me.
He won’t win
Seriously, you don't need to look far.
A page from the Trump playbook.
He's an openly gray married man. He's living his truth. He ain't in his seventies. I could see myself voting for him.
I will not watch him or vote for him. I'm offended by his kissing another man, it's wrong! If he was a Christian he would know that
His major vulnerability: he is a white guy.
I hope Democrats keep it clean! I was a Republican for close to 45 years & left the party due to it’s corruption, dirty tactics & lack of being cohesive & united in purpose. I’m rooting for a Warren/Buttigieg ticket myself. We need a woman in office & younger blood & ideas.
He's the flavor of the month, like O'Rourke was. Anyone talking about Robert Francis these days?
It won’t take long
Why not start digging for dirt on Trump! U hypocrites! U don’t belong to represent America..
I think the only thing they're gonna find is that how funny it is that his last name has a 'butt' in it & that he lookx like this little guy here. 👇
Well of course they are
Get Steele and Fusion to write a dossier.
So the Dem party is going to shoot themselves in the foot and give Trump a chance because PeteButtigieg doesn’t fit their establishment mold?I am a registered Dem, husband reg Rep & my daughter is a Registered Rep millenial and we all agree we like MayorPete sincere everyman
There is going to be a lot of dirt thrown by Dems on other Dems (if Beto does not eat all the dirt)
He’s still not, even though MSNBC is trying to anoint him. They ask every candidate about “Mayor Pete.” This is how we got Trump.
empty suit
President Bootyfudge? I don't think so.
This is what I hate about politics. Why can’t they run fairly.
Caught off guard by his sudden surge, Pete Buttigieg's rivals are scrambling to find vulnerabilities and lines of attack that can be used against him, five officials with opposing Democratic primary campaigns and Republican political groups tell NBC News.
Drumpf was the dirtiest candidate in American history and was in your face with it. The United States has a hypocritical streak a mile wide.
Give us the names of these five Democratic operatives. Oh wait! You have to protect your sources right? So, MSNBC prefers to plant innuendos. Really *great* journalistic integrity---not.
How pathetic that dirt not policy is most valuable to some! But unfortunately dirt means less and less as we elected a filthy person to the presidency!
Done
smh
BECAUSE HE’S GAY.
Straight Shooter. Breath of fresh air!!
His main advantage is that he seems to be a happy person. All the others have been twisted up more than Quasimodo with hate as a byproduct of their TDS
Dont matter he wont win black female's are not voting for him
This is a bunch of garbage if you’re running on a view point that the only way you can win a election is to be like trump by just digging up dirt on your opponents instead of what you have to offer then you don’t deserve to run for this presidency we don’t need another trump
Nooo!DemsDoNot start tearing each other apart!That’s handing trump the win. That’s playing right into the hands of trump&the newly developedRussian hackers strategy-to tear theDems apart,cause Infighting-Don’t Do It!They saw our Strength&Unity last November&want to tear us apart!
He'll find out that Democrats don't care about anything but their own ambitions and greed. All they have to do is ACCUSE him of wrongdoing and Dems will automatically believe it as fact...Russian Collusion's a great example!
He blows guys Next
Wasn’t Pete at a private dinner with Democratic donors trying to strategize a way to stop their “Bernie problem”? BTW, you don’t have to dig up dirt when it’s already being spewed by his own mouth.
Not hard to dig up dirt, him being human and all. If they are not careful the Dems are going to do most of Trump's work for him!
I guess they could use his intelligence against him. He could become the Adlai Stevenson of the 21st Century.
...as is the case with every candidate in every race... 😂
HE'S GOT A RACIST CIVIL RIGHTS RECORD. SOUTH BEND OFFICIALS SHOULD RELEASE THE TAPES MADE OF ITS WHITE BIASED POLICE OFFICERS BY THE BLACK CHIEF WHO BUTTIGIEG. DEMOTED.
He’s still a nobody according to recent polling data
Well lack of policies, or desire to come up with any is an obvious one. Also we'll see what happens with the police thing, that could be big, seems like he's covering up to me but just have to wait for more evidence.
Not scrambling too hard, actually, pretty easy to find. Example, he has no policies to promote? Meeting in secret with neeratanden ? No mystery why that would be kept quiet, because it's a 'vulnerability'.
He is so entergizing. Several great Dems are in this race. How refreshing is that? God is God all day. KamalaHarris PeteButtigieg ewarren CoryBooker BetoORourke et al.
He's a media creation to appease corporatist and neoliberal Republican lights.
And so far it's been way to easy. All you have to do is look at his record.
Exactly. They're all terrified of his momentum and it's not slacking either. Pete4Potus
When you're a truly good person, the so-called operatives can do all the oppo research they want and find no substantial flaw. Look at the guy during in the white house now and tell me voters care about character. bringonbuttigieg
That's the game and it has always been that way. Then again, look at tRump. All kinds of dirt about him and so what? It's a crap shoot.
Shameful.
He doesnt respect are Bibel!
what a weird headline
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