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  • (phone typing)

  • - Watching March Madness reminds me:

  • Zion Williamson and I are similarly athletic.

  • What's so funny?

  • He's a skinny guy with a funny name,

  • and he's the hottest name in Democratic politics.

  • Sounds like I'm describing this guy, right?

  • It's actually this guy.

  • That guy is Pete Buttigieg.

  • That's B-U-T-T-I-G-I-E-G.

  • Boom, nailed it; ding! (bell dinging)

  • Boot-edge-edge: That's how you say it, except fast,

  • like it says on the t-shirts his campaign sells.

  • They really do, look!

  • Honestly, just call him "Mayor Pete."

  • It's a lot easier, rolls off the tongue.

  • When Mayor Pete started running for president in early-2019,

  • people, they weren't calling him much of anything

  • because, well, they had no idea who he was.

  • Unlike boldfaced names like Beto O'Rourke

  • or Bernie Sanders or Joe Biden,

  • Mayor Pete was considered a very minor player

  • in the very crowded 2020 sweepstakes.

  • After all, he is young, 37 years old,

  • relatively inexperienced politically,

  • his highest office is his current one,

  • mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and has a last name

  • that is harder to pronounce than Cillizza.

  • Cillizza.

  • Except that politics is an unpredictable business

  • and voters have a tendency of sometimes surprising you.

  • The Buttigieg bump, (bell dinging)

  • again, began around early-March

  • when Mayor Pete did a town hall that was hosted by CNN.

  • I know, self-serving, but accurate,

  • at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas.

  • The mayor got the sort of exposure

  • he hadn't been able to generate to that point,

  • and he honestly nailed it.

  • - I have more years of government experience under my belt

  • than the president.

  • (audience laughing)

  • (audience applauding)

  • That's a low bar, I know that.

  • (audience laughing)

  • I also got more years of executive government experience

  • under my belt than the vice president

  • and more military experience than anybody

  • to walk into that office on day one since George H.W. Bush.

  • So, I get that I'm the young guy in the conversation,

  • but I would say experience is what qualifies me

  • to have a seat at this table.

  • - He was funny, smart, and above all

  • spoke and seemed like a normal person.

  • Suddenly, Buttigieg was everywhere.

  • - Where are you on the ideological spectrum?

  • - I consider myself a pretty strong progressive,

  • but I also don't consider the left-center spectrum

  • to be the most useful way to look at our politics right now

  • because I think it's gotten jumbled up,

  • both by the current president and by the pace of change.

  • - And after that appearance, Joe Scarborough said

  • that there hadn't been so much reaction

  • to a guest on his show since, well, this guy.

  • A clip of Buttigieg speaking Norwegian,

  • he's conversant, because of course he is,

  • with a reporter from Norway then went viral.

  • - (speaking foreign language)

  • - (speaking foreign language)

  • - (speaking foreign language)

  • - Buttigieg's campaign announced

  • that he had already secured the 65,000 donors that he needed

  • to qualify for the first Democratic presidential debate

  • in June in Miami.

  • He announced in late-March

  • that he was trying to raise $500,000 more for his campaign

  • in the week or so before the end

  • of that fundraising quarter.

  • He raised that amount in 24 hours.

  • All told, Buttigieg announced he had raised $7 million

  • in roughly two months as a candidate,

  • a total that, yes, is going to put him

  • behind the likes of Sanders and O'Rourke,

  • but will put him way in front of where he

  • and everyone else thought he would be

  • at this point in the race.

  • This right now is Mayor Pete's moment.

  • Every candidate running for president wants one.

  • Not all get one.

  • The question going forward is whether Buttigieg's moment

  • is like that time when Herman Cain led the 2020 GOP field,

  • nine-nine-nine, baby,

  • or more like when that other skinny guy with the funny name

  • started surging in the 2008 Democratic race

  • and really never stopped.

  • There's reason to believe

  • Buttigieg will last beyond this current 15 minutes of fame,

  • and the biggest reason for that is, well, the mayor himself.

  • - Why are you only showing us

  • the positive things about Pete Buttigieg?

  • Because that's all we could find,

  • all right?! (audience laughing)

  • No, I'm being serious.

  • There's no dirt on this guy, like nothing.

  • - Remember that presidential races, especially in primaries,

  • are as much about personality and backstory

  • as they are about policy.

  • That's mostly because the candidates

  • running for a party's presidential nomination

  • tend to agree about the broad policy solutions

  • needed to address things like immigration

  • or health care or the economy.

  • The way that you stand out in a field

  • where everyone has very similar policy plans

  • is by the force of your life story

  • and the way in which you tell that life story.

  • And Buttigieg, though he's only 37 years old,

  • has a hell of a story to tell.

  • He's a Harvard grad, a Rhodes scholar,

  • he was deployed in Afghanistan for seven months in 2014,

  • and was a Naval Reservist until 2017.

  • He was elected mayor of his hometown at age 29.

  • He is both gay and married.

  • In short, there's lots of there there

  • when it comes to Mayor Pete.

  • His surge has been fueled less by some catchy slogan

  • than by a genuine excitement among Democratic primary voters

  • about his personal story and candidacy.

  • Plus, the momentum and money

  • Buttigieg is gathering right now

  • will help him in real tangible ways.

  • His campaign says it plans to double his staff

  • in the coming weeks

  • and they are working on building bigger organizations

  • in places like Iowa and New Hampshire,

  • where Mayor Pete will have to show well

  • to have any chance at winning the nomination.

  • Now, before we get too far ahead of ourselves,

  • and I just said, "Any chance of winning the nomination,"

  • it is worth remembering this: No one, absolutely no one,

  • will be voting until late-January or early-February 2020,

  • which is still a very long time from now.

  • Mayor Pete may be the flavor of this month,

  • but he's unlikely to be the only lesser-known candidate

  • who experiences a bit of a boom between now and next year.

  • Still, an early Buttigieg bump

  • is better than no bump at all.

  • And lots of Mayor Pete's fellow 2020 candidates

  • would love to have the sort of run he's been on recently.

  • Campaigns for president are about creating opportunities,

  • seizing them, and never letting go.

  • Pete Buttigieg has already accomplished

  • the first two parts of that equation

  • in just two months as a candidate.

  • It's the never-letting-go bit that he's still got to master.

  • And that is The Po!nt.

  • We make new Po!nt episodes every Tuesday and Thursday.

  • Check 'em out.

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皮特-布提吉格是誰,為什麼他有一個2020年的時刻? (Who is Pete Buttigieg and why is he having a 2020 moment?)

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    林宜悉 發佈於 2021 年 01 月 14 日
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