Why 37-year-old Pete Buttigieg is attracting boomers
DENISON, Iowa — Pete Buttigieg likes a crisp white button-down — no fuss, no flash — and his favorite novel is by a man who died in 1941.
With Democrats and party officials worried that Buttigieg’s inexperience could hurt his chances against President Donald Trump in the general election, his ability to connect with these voters provides a counterpoint to the criticism that he is too young to win next November. “We’ve got to act not just to shore up Social Security but to make sure everybody can retire and live in dignity,” he said at a rally Monday evening in Council Bluffs, Iowa. “Call it my ‘Gray New Deal.’”
“I have to think that some older voters see Pete as the son they’d want to have — very smart, respectful of traditional institutions like the church and the military, and relentlessly cheerful and optimistic about what America can be,” Grennan said. In a brief interview before an event in Storm Lake on Tuesday, Buttigieg theorized that he was attracting older Americans because they might have “a more generous understanding of what experience means.”
“We should tilt toward somebody a little more in touch with the issues that are really, really important to the 40s and under,” said Bill Horner, 79, who came from his farm in Red Oak, Iowa, to see Buttigieg at an event Monday morning. “They’re the ones who have the longest time in this country.” Still, some older Iowans, even those who were excited about his candidacy, expressed discomfort with his age and lack of political experience. Should he be elected, he would be the youngest president ever.
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