‘If someone wants to tell you that Pete Buttigieg is Barack Obama, they are being blatantly ignorant of facts,’ said one Democrat
The speech even incorporated Obama’s thematic touches — high-minded promises of a better future and cautions about the dangers of party disunity.
When asked on his campaign bus this month whether he was comfortable with comparisons to the former president’s campaign, Buttigieg answered cautiously, but in the affirmative. A national Quinnipiac poll released Tuesday found Buttigieg with just 4 percent support among black voters, beating Sens. Amy Klobuchar, Cory Booker, and Michael Bennet but trailing former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and Sen. Kamala Harris.
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