2020 Presidential Candidates: Pete Buttigieg
Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2019 3:46 am
I am suggesting that, rather than have an interminable election thread that includes everything, that we create individual threads for discussions that revolve around a single candidate. So I'll start this one showing that PB has vaulted from nowhere to third in New Hampshire:
Buttigieg surges to third place in new NH poll
MANCHESTER, N.H. – A new public opinion survey in the state that holds the first primary in the race for the White House indicates that onetime longshot Pete Buttigieg is now in third place among the multitude of contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination.
The 37-year old South Bend, Ind., mayor has the support of 10.7 percent of likely Democratic primary voters in New Hampshire, according to a Saint Anselm College Survey Center poll released Wednesday.
Former Vice President Joe Biden – expected by many political observers to formally announce a White House bid in the coming weeks – topped the poll. Nearly 23 percent said if the primary were held today, they’d vote for Biden. Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont – who’s running a second straight time for the Democratic nomination – was second at 15.6 percent.
Sanders won the 2016 Democratic primary in the Granite State by 22 percentage points over eventual nominee Hillary Clinton.
Buttigieg, an Afghanistan War veteran who would be the nation’s first openly gay president, was next in line.
“The emerging dark horse in this race may be Pete Buttigieg, who has gone from a virtual unknown to vault to 11 percent support,” said Neil Levesque, the executive director of the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College. “His emergence as a factor is driven by a 33-point increase in name recognition, almost all of it favorable.”