Pete-mentum is real—but Buttigieg's Iowa surge is in stark contrast to his flatlining in South Carolina, where he's registering 0% support with the state's black Democrats
“Mayor Pete cannot become the nominee of the Democratic Party if he’s literally getting zero support among black people in South Carolina,” says’s winning presidential campaigns. “Given the enormous sums of money he’s raised, the large amount of earned media Buttigieg has enjoyed, and the operation he’s put in place elsewhere, I think it says something about the effectiveness of his campaign in South Carolina. They can’t pretend that this is not a problem and it’s going to take care of itself.
of the electorate, and that a win in Iowa would begin to change that picture. “Pete is new on the scene. He hasn’t been marinating in Washington for decades,” saysthe campaign’s national press secretary. “In South Carolina, fully half of the people polled have no opinion of him. And that’s even higher with African Americans. We’ve spent a lot of time in Iowa, and so he has a higher name recognition there than in other places.
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