Posted on 03/25/2019 6:31:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
He’s just a likable, plain spoken Midwestern mayor who happens to be about everything that Donald Trump isn’t. Now, South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg has surged to third place in a new Iowa poll, making strides in a crowded field in the key caucus state.
The 37-year-old Iraq and Afghanistan vet jumped to earn 11 percent support in the latest Emerson poll of Democratic presidential candidates in Iowa.
He trailed two vastly better known candidates: former Vice President Joe Biden, who hasn’t yet entered the race, and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Back in January, Buttigieg didn’t even register in the poll, scoring 0 percent.
California Sen. Kamala Harris, who was at 18 percent in January, saw her support drop to 10 percent in the latest Emerson poll.
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That title is confusing: That "Opposite of Trump" thing would cover all of the democrat candidates and pretty much any Republican who would think of trying to primary him.
Ben Dover and C. Howard Fields
I bet he was known as Gigglebutt from first grade on up.
If he changes his name to ButtGig, he’s got a whole bloc voting for him. /sarc
Seriously, he sounds too good to be true, a Democrat who is rational and moderate, and if he is real, then the Party will never have him to be their candidate.
Marxism and hate-America insanity run too deeply in the Democrats to be cured in one election.
However, I absolutely salute his combat service. Will never take that away from him.
We will just have to wait and see.
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