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Pete Buttigieg, who is currently fundraising in CA, has lined up three top $$$ fundraisers in NYC & Chicago next week, per invites obtained by CNN. David Jacobson, the deputy finance chair for Obama's 08 campaign who went on to be Ambassador to Canada, is hosting one event. — PolitiTweet.org

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@guycecil @GatorsFB Well, that makes me want to get to a game this year. — PolitiTweet.org

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The best thing I have read/listened to today: Tom Petty's 'I Won't Back Down' Is An Anthem Of Resolve https://t.co/068AlcSKO2 — PolitiTweet.org

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.@DavidWright_CNN is wearing this shirt... today. — PolitiTweet.org

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(h/t @stevebruskCNN) — PolitiTweet.org

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President Trump mocked Pete Buttigieg at a rally in Florida on Wednesday. "Boot-edge-edge," Trump said. "They say edge, edge." "He'll be great representing us against President Xi of China," Trump said. "That'll be great...I want to be in that room, I want to watch that one." — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @albamonica: It's been seven months since Hurricane Michael slammed into the Florida Panhandle and many residents are still reeling. My… — PolitiTweet.org

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Hillary Clinton is in New Hampshire today after her longtime aide Jake Sullivan invited her to speak at Dartmouth https://t.co/Bml4iBRHZw — PolitiTweet.org

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In total, Buttigieg will headline more than ten fundraisers in CA from Wednesday to Friday, according to invites obtained by CNN, picking up checks from celebs like Gwyneth Paltrow and Bradley Whitford, top tech investors in Silicon Valley and an early Obama donor in San Diego. — PolitiTweet.org

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Buttigieg will headline a series of top-dollar fundraisers across California this week, the latest sign that his rise in the polls has opened the doors - and the wallets - of donors who had previously dismissed his once-quixotic run https://t.co/1hwa1lvMgI w/ @fschouten — PolitiTweet.org

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John Delaney responds to NYT story on Trump’s taxes with a shot at Bernie Sanders — PolitiTweet.org

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Pete Buttigieg said in an interview released Tuesday that people should "stop seeing religion as a kind of cudgel as if God belonged to a political party." Immediately after, he said he "can't imagine" God would be a Republican. https://t.co/xHfRgBT9hT — PolitiTweet.org

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Buttigieg tells TODAY that he wants people to "stop seeing religion as a kind of cudgel as if God belonged to a political party." Then he added, "And if he did, I can’t imagine it would be the one that sent the current president into the White House." — PolitiTweet.org

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Buttigieg's campaign touted the trip as a chance for the mayor to highlight his policies for black voters to black voters. But what the trip showed was even though the mayor has plans for black America, he has few black supporters to hear them. From SC: https://t.co/AmhM5UK9tD — PolitiTweet.org

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The best thing I’ve seen on SNL in years. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Peter_Dennehy Have an invite you'd like to share? — PolitiTweet.org

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Patton said he was impressed with Buttigieg's answers after the event - including a lengthy answer in response to a pointed question he asked about standing with black voters. But Patton described Buttigieg as a "wild card" candidate. https://t.co/hKSeAb558v — PolitiTweet.org

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A student who introduced Buttigieg: “We just don't trust him. It is not necessarily his policies because I know his policies, but I don't think we even really take him seriously because we have (Biden, Booker, Harris and Sanders) so it is kind of hard for him to get his footing.” — PolitiTweet.org

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As the candidate stepped onto the stage set up for him in a white-walled event space, he stared out into a sea of white faces. How Buttigieg’s struggles to attract support from black voters has become the biggest early challenge his campaign faces: https://t.co/AmhM5UK9tD — PolitiTweet.org

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It was clear the moment Pete Buttigieg took the mic here in Orangeburg that the South Bend mayor has a problem in South Carolina. My story: https://t.co/AmhM5UK9tD — PolitiTweet.org

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Pete Buttigieg is meeting with @harrisonjaime in Columbia before he leaves the state. Harrison, the former chair of @scdp, is considering running for the Democratic Senate nomination to take on Sen. Lindsey Graham in November 2020. — PolitiTweet.org

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Buttigieg: "I think a lot of the candidates would enjoy living in a world where you wouldn’t have to do a lot of fundraising." The mayor heads to California later this week to headline a series of fundraisers in Los Angeles and the Bay Area. — PolitiTweet.org

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Buttigieg defends not supporting plans to allow the currently incarcerated to vote. "I haven’t been able to get that far," he told a questioner from the ACLU in Columbia, but says more work needs to be done on the formally incarcerated. — PolitiTweet.org

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Buttigieg on slavery and racism: "We studied the past and we thought the things have been washed away over time. And this current political moment has revealed that they were never that far beneath the surface." — PolitiTweet.org

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Buttigieg said Monday in Orangeburg, SC that many people in the US “were a little complacent is believing some of the worst sins in the history of this country were part of history,” but that the rise of the Trump “has revealed that they were never that far beneath the surface.” — PolitiTweet.org

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Buttigieg, seeking to explain the lack of policy details on his website, says he is "being a perfectionist about it" and that his campaign is waiting on him to post some policy details. He says he will have "more text based things... up there" soon. — PolitiTweet.org

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After speaking at length about policy, Buttigieg says his deeper answer on attracting black voters is simple: "I need help." "There are so many other different places and people that we need to find and reach and I can’t do it alone," he says. — PolitiTweet.org

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Buttigieg says "one of the most important pieces of homework for our campaign" is convincing African American voters that he wants to represent them in the White House. He mentions housing policy, health inequities and criminal justice reform as issues he plans to confront. — PolitiTweet.org

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Buttigieg mentions systemic racism and how it impacts everyone's freedom during the opening of a town hall in Orangeburg, South Carolina. "All of our freedom is at stake for as long as we allow those racist patterns to continue," he said. — PolitiTweet.org