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He’s so popular with African Americans that he had to fabricate their support for his policies: https://theintercept.com/2019/11/15/pete-buttigieg-campaign-black-voters/
Mayor Pete is a fucking lightweight and trump will destroy him in an election, so of course the democrats are going to select him.
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I was listening to an interview where he implied that he gains strong support from black voters (as it's been them in particular it's suggested don't support him) where they listen to him or read what he stands for (the city he was mayor of is 26% African American). He indicated the worry was journalists repeating his "struggle", and turning it into a self-fulfilling prophecy where people who don't know who he is ignore his message as "he isn't for our people".
Sadly, it's the way politics are at the moment really. Don't bother reading the actual message, just regurgitated sound-bites and "summaries" from whatever media people get their news from. My guess is that if he does well, you'll find Trump supporting organisations aggressively pushing that message via targeted facebook advertising.