It’s easy to forget there’s a historic element to Pete Buttigieg's candidacy, too. The press corps is a daily reminder.
fire last January from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and others when it announced a slate of embeds that included no black journalists.)
“When you’re traveling as much as an embed is, the goal is to hear not just what the candidate is saying there, but what the voters are hearing,” Judd, who grew up in Manhattan, told me over grilled salmon on a bed of rice at a hip downtown Des Moines spot, St. Kilda Surf & Turf. “I’m always curious to see what a gay voter in some of these places that aren’t these gay meccas is talking about.”
Last April, at Iowa campaign stops in Des Moines, Fort Dodge and Marshalltown, Buttigieg found himself trailed by far-right protests organized by Randall Terry, an anti-abortion activist. Terry and a few other protesters would show up and shout at Buttigieg and voters to “Remember Sodom and Gomorrah.” “The condition of my soul is in the hands of God, but the Iowa caucuses are up to you,” Buttigieg responded in Des Moines.
“The fact of the matter is that gay rights issues, same-sex marriage, other issues like that, are still matters of public controversy in our country,” says Lederman, who pitched his editors on covering Buttigieg around his launch in April after Buttigieg had raised $7 million in the first fundraising quarter. “There are people on both sides of that issue, and so I consider it a professional responsibility not to weigh in on those issues.
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