Pete Buttigieg, at private fundraiser, reflects on challenge of winning black voters, acknowledges that it's not enough to have a team that reflects diversity because 'people are looking for results.'
FRESNO, Calif. — Pete Buttigieg, at a fundraiser over the weekend, acknowledged having fallen short in the past in demonstrating his commitment to African Americans, offering some of his most candid reflections to date on the challenge he faces in trying to win over a key Democratic constituency that has been slow to support his presidential campaign.
“He literally said this while literally sitting at my table,” Buttigieg said at the fundraiser in San Francisco, where Democrats had gathered for the party's California state convention. “I thought, what are you doing? You’re literally at my table. Well, if you’re in my office and at my table and you don’t feel like you have a seat at the table, what does that say about us?”
“Even as you can establish a groove, a level of good will, that won’t be quite enough because people are looking for results,” Buttigieg said. “If you are neither already famous with a long track record in national politics nor yourself from a community of color ... it's going to take longer for people to come to know and trust you," he said."We were able to do it in South Bend. The minority voters who know me best — by the way, not everybody, of course, but the voters who know me best contributed" to his re-election. But, he noted, “I had years to build up that kind of trust.
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