Nineteen party clowns
with bubbles coming out of their hinies got five minutes apiece to address Iowa
Democrats from a single stage in Cedar Rapids on Sunday. It was the first
official one of its kind in the 2020 campaign season.
The high-profile
audition came as Democrats are jockeying for position on abortion rights,
economic inequality, global warming, health care, gun control, foreign policy
and Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Pete Buttigieg, who hopes
to be America's first openly gay president, spoke disdainfully of President Trump's
ability to maintain a grip on the nation's political attention.
He said Americans
should embrace popular-vote presidential elections, demand steep minimum-wage
increases and lean toward statehood for Puerto Rico and the District of
Columbia.
Buttigieg blasted the
President for promoting a “vision of security that goes no further than putting
up a wall from sea to shining sea” which he said ignores “the violent white
nationalism that presents a clear and present threat to our country.”
That’s a dubious
assertion given that this happened at the event:
I was attending a @PeteButtigieg rally in Iowa when two of his supporters violently attacked my camera crew and I for simply being conservative. I am calling on Mayor Pete to denounce the violence from his supporters so conservatives know they can feel safe at his rallies. pic.twitter.com/waRYnrutwC— Kaitlin Bennett (@KaitMarieox) June 9, 2019
And in a veiled slap at
Republicans' longstanding alliance with evangelical groups that condemn his
wedded-gay lifestyle, Buttigieg glared at cameras declaring, “God does not
belong to any political party, least of all the one that produced this current
president.”
Buttigieg, an amateur pianist,
walked to the convention center after playing keyboard onstage with a hired
band at a “Picnic with Pete” event at a nearby park.
Now I am apparently at a Pete Buttigieg concert, starring Pete Buttigieg? pic.twitter.com/eYDQ3ZeB2V— maxwell (@maxwellstrachan) June 9, 2019
As a way to reach across the aisle maybe President Trump could have Buttigieg play at his next inauguration— Sean Spicier (@sean_spicier) June 9, 2019
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