Ascendant in the polls, Mayor Pete Buttigieg took fire in Wednesday’s presidential debate from his Democratic rivals over his experience, his relationship with black voters and his foreign policy.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota used a voter question about ballot-box access to argue that while the South Bend, Ind., mayor may have good ideas about reducing voter disenfranchisement and suppression, she had experience leading congressional legislative efforts to get things done.
A debate moderator also asked Buttigieg whether his experience leading a city, where he was elected mayor with 11,000 votes, gave him the requisite experience to be the nominee. California Sen. Kamala Harris used a question about Buttigieg’s use of a stock photograph of a Kenyan woman on his campaign website that has since been taken down to slash at Democrats for taking African American voters for granted — except when they need votes.
He said that while he did not know what it was like to be discriminated against because of the color of his skin, he was deeply shaped by his experience governing a city with racial challenges, his faith and his experience as a gay man in the United States.
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