Posted on 05/07/2019 2:46:29 PM PDT by Ennis85
In an interview, Saturday with MSNBC's Donny Deutsch, Democratic presidential candidate and South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg discussed his philosophy of campaigning and previewed some of the lines of attack he might take against President Trump.
"The fact that I was packing my bags for Afghanistan when he was filming season seven of 'Celebrity Apprentice,' we could have that fight," he said. "And if somebody wants to raise the question of which one of us has a more traditional attitude on marriage, we can have that fight."
"But at the end of the day, it's not about him, it's not about me," Buttigieg said. "Because here's the thing about this president. He has the ability to take any attention that comes his way, including attacks and criticism, and just kind of devour it, so we could unintentionally be feeding the beast by competing to see who's the one going to be landing the biggest punch, the best zinger, and the reality, if you step back and think about the mentality, that's an environment where it's almost like he's the one we're trying to impress."
DONNY DEUTSCH: You have had a stunning, stunning beginning to your campaign. The press is just nonstop. Latest TIME Magazine cover, a fantastic cover. You and your husband. Now, as a strategist, I might pull you aside after that and say, "Mayor Pete, that a very defining attribute, you and your husband on the cover." You being gay, as a defining versus just one of your core attributes. I would say, as a strategist, maybe we don't want that to be the defining attribute, but one of your core attributes. Would you push back on me on that?
MAYOR PETE BUTTIGIEG: That is something you think about when you're presenting yourself to a broader public,
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I do not believe President Trump has chosen “traditional” marriage as one of his signature issues.
I put “traditional” in quotes because actual traditional marriage’s elements are now illegal in all 50 states - no divorce except for adultery, criminal penalties for adultery, and mandatory father custody n case of divorce or abandonment.
Aging playboy Donny Deutsch challenged Trump to a fight on air in 2017... He said.....“Donald if you’re watching, we’re from Queens. I’ll meet you in the schoolyard, brother,”
Referred to Trump as a “vulgar pig"
And just look-ey who Ol Donny's stepping out with here! 4/11/2018
Best comment I’ve read in a very long time, re Dems! Take a bow; you done real good!
Wow...great research!
Donny Deutsch is another one,( in fact early on), spreading the the Demorats assaults against Trump.....MSNBC's Morning Joe, Chris Matthews and Donny Deutsch are three peas in a pod .
Check 105...Donny’s in tight with the hosts on msnbc...matthews and scarboro and the like...
So easy to see Cohen, Trumps attorney, was a huge leaker to msnbc and likely Donny the go between.
Twenty-two nothings and has beens and the number of of wannabe candidates keep growing. LOL
..He's winning here!!!!!"...
Biden is the one who will play cowboy corralling the voters together for whoever the DNC has already determined will actually win the primary.. This is the big picture I see currently..
Mayor Buttplug doesn’t need to take the question up with Trump. He needs to take it up with God. He is the one who created us. He makes the rules - not the Progressive sin-promoters of the Democrat Party who never met a Commandment they wouldn’t and didn’t break.
These people are truly INSANE! In more rational times, they would all have been shot or hung for treason, or just thrown into an insane asylum.
And I still can;t understand WHY Trump ever hired, ;et alone trusted that disgusting, sniveling, grasping ambulance chaser...Cohen.
LOL...what’ll he do when Trump wins re-election, I wonder.
A few ARE running to be chosen for VEEP.
These are NEW TIMES, though ALL of the Dems are using very old playbooks which no longer hold true. This is President Donald J. Trump and he has his very own, very unique playbooks/rules/style.
The Dems haven't been this fractured and the candidates this pigeonholed in their own trite little cubbies of "minority grievance categories, since 1984!
Which he’ll no doubt enjoy.
I do my best at posting that, every chance I get, as well as saying it, in real life too.
So is Cory Booker!
Apparently the word is being suppressed.
Soldier on to victory!
[I will step up my lame, to date, efforts..]
oh giving him head!"
We shall get the word out and we must enlist others to do so too!
I’m in...
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