Seems like only yesterday that “Mayor Pete” aka Alfred E. Buttigieg was the toast of the media. He was basically the white version of Obama and gay at the same tie. He was like the media’s dream candidate as his poll numbers slowly crept up among the crazy Democrats running for the nomination. But that was yesterday. Now Buttigieg is just about toast, and other Democrats are claiming that he has a “black problem.” You may have seen the videos of Buttigieg getting shouted down at South Bend town hall events over an African-American man being shot by a white cop. Now Buttigieg is getting bashed by the media and his campaign is basically running on fumes. See ya Mayor Pete! We hardly knew you.
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Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio), a former chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, says that White House hopeful Pete Buttigieg has a serious problem with African American voters.
“Pete has a black problem,” Fudge told The Daily Beast, referring to the South Bend, Ind., mayor. “I don’t know of one black person out of Indiana that supports him.”
Her comments come amid increased scrutiny on Buttigieg’s record with and polling among black voters.
He took a break from the campaign trail last week to address the fallout of a recent police shooting of a black man in South Bend.
Buttigieg faced a barrage of criticism from South Bend’s African-American residents during a public forum Sunday following the fatal shooting.
“It was a painful but needed conversation,” Buttigieg said Monday of the town hall, which grew increasingly heated as black residents questioned the mayor’s handling of racism in the city’s police force.