Name: Who is Pete Buttigieg and why is he having a 2020 moment?
Uploaded: 2020-03-03T07:11:12.000Z
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Zion Williamson and I are similarly athletic.

and he's the hottest name in Democratic politics.

Sounds like I'm describing this guy, right?

Boot-edge-edge: That's how you say it, except fast,

like it says on the t-shirts his campaign sells.

When Mayor Pete started running for president in early-2019,

people, they weren't calling him much of anything

because, well, they had no idea who he was.

Unlike boldfaced names like Beto O'Rourke

Mayor Pete was considered a very minor player

mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and has a last name

that is harder to pronounce than Cillizza.

Except that politics is an unpredictable business

and voters have a tendency of sometimes surprising you.

when Mayor Pete did a town hall that was hosted by CNN.

at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas.

he hadn't been able to generate to that point,

- I have more years of government experience under my belt

I also got more years of executive government experience

and more military experience than anybody

to walk into that office on day one since George H.W. Bush.

So, I get that I'm the young guy in the conversation,

but I would say experience is what qualifies me

- Where are you on the ideological spectrum?

- I consider myself a pretty strong progressive,

but I also don't consider the left-center spectrum

to be the most useful way to look at our politics right now

both by the current president and by the pace of change.

- And after that appearance, Joe Scarborough said

to a guest on his show since, well, this guy.

he's conversant, because of course he is,

with a reporter from Norway then went viral.

that he had already secured the 65,000 donors that he needed

to qualify for the first Democratic presidential debate

that he was trying to raise $500,000 more for his campaign

All told, Buttigieg announced he had raised $7 million

behind the likes of Sanders and O'Rourke,

but will put him way in front of where he

Every candidate running for president wants one.

The question going forward is whether Buttigieg's moment

is like that time when Herman Cain led the 2020 GOP field,

or more like when that other skinny guy with the funny name

started surging in the 2008 Democratic race

Buttigieg will last beyond this current 15 minutes of fame,

and the biggest reason for that is, well, the mayor himself.

the positive things about Pete Buttigieg?

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