The presidential hopeful swung through Los Angeles Thursday with husband Chasten Buttigieg at a series of events at San Vicente Bungalow and the Hancock Park home of a top NBCUniversal executive.
Mayor Pete Buttigieg shared a stage with Tony winner Ben Platt in a tony enclave of Los Angeles Thursday night, capping off his latest fundraising blitz that saw him shaking hands with A-list Hollywood insiders and tackling topics from health care and racism to narrowing the political divide.
And it wasn't exactly a "stage," but rather the concrete back patio belonging to couple Kevin MacLellan and Brian Curran.
It was his vocal chops that impressed Buttigieg, who took the microphone after Platt and thanked him for coming out to a backyard in Hancock Park. "We don't get that at every fundraiser," Buttigieg says in a video captured on Platt's Instagram Stories and posted below. "That's really special. You sound even better here than you do on the speakers at our house when Chasten fires them up.
Another event that made it back on Buttigieg's books that was held today was a high-profile luncheon at the exclusive San Vicente Bungalows West Hollywood. That's where he started his blitz, just after 12 p.m.
During the luncheon, Buttigieg spoke to his supporters and also participated in an open Q&A forum, said to be his only one of the day. Topics covered included racism, inequality, solutions for America's complicated healthcare system and how to bridge the political divide between Democrats and Republicans. "He was incredible," an attendee told
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