• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • Advertise
  • Contact Us
  • About Towleroad
  • Towleroad on Social Media
  • Privacy Policy

Towleroad Gay News

Gay Blog Towleroad: More than gay news | gay men

  • Travel
  • Sports
  • Law/Justice
  • Celebrities
  • Republicans
  • Madonna
  • Books
  • Men
  • Trans Rights
  • Royals
  • Monkeypox
  • Sophia Bush’s girlfriend ‘proud’ the actress has opened up about coming out as queer
  • Mel B declares she’ll ‘always be open’ when it comes to her sexuality!
  • Megan Thee Stallion being sued for ‘forcing cameraman watch her having lesbian sex!’

Chris Cuomo Grills Mayor Pete About Tonight’s Debate, Taking on Trump, and His Challenges with Black Voters: WATCH

Andy Towle July 30, 2019 Leave a Comment

Chris Cuomo sat down with South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg for a one-on-one interview ahead of tonight's 2020 Democratic primary debate about our “identity politics” election, Trump's racism and how he'd take him on, and Mayor Pete's challenges with the black community.

Said Buttigieg of Trump's recent attacks: “The presidency is supposed to stand as a symbol of something that we all have in common. And yet this president has taken every single opportunity to turn us against one another.”

“Look at the pattern,” he added of Trump's use of the word “infested” to describe cities with a lot of minorities. “This is a kind of terminology that he reserves for places and situations where there are a lot of minorities involved. We can debate over how strategic it is, how intentional it is, but on its face, it is racist.”

Cuomo asked Buttigieg about his struggle to gain support among Black voters: “African-American voters are tired of having been lied to or taken for granted by politicians. When you are new on the scene, when you haven't been known for years or decades, and when you're not yourself from a community of color, you've got a lot of extra work to do in order to validate what you have to say and earn that trust.”

Buttigieg then spoke about his Douglass Plan: “[It's] everything from making sure we invest in minority entrepreneurship to investing in dealing with health inequities.”

In the first part of the interview, Cuomo and the South Bend mayor went on to discuss the biggest lesson he's learned in the campaign so far, feedback he has received about his handling of the police shooting of a black man by a white officer in his city, and law enforcement body cams.

https://twitter.com/CuomoPrimeTime/status/1156014765782654981

In the second part of the interview, Buttigieg told Cuomo that Trump is playing his supporters for “suckers.”

“I'm not scared of this president,” said Buttigieg. “I mean, this a guy who was working on season seven of ‘Celebrity Apprentice' when I was driving armored vehicles outside the wire in Afghanistan. I'm not afraid to take him on.”

Said Buttigieg of Trump's technique with his base: “You know, the gift of this president is to take any energy that goes his way, even if it's in the form of criticism, and turn it into a kind of food that he just grows off of and gets bigger. That's the code that we've got to crack. And I think the way to do it is to name and confront everything that he does wrong, but then immediately go back to talking about the impact that we will have on voters' lives.”

He continued: “The message that he's telling to these Americans is: Yes, you're not making enough money. Yes … housing is becoming unaffordable, college education is out of reach for your kids, and your job may be automated away in 10 years. But your big problem in life is political correctness. That's what he's trying to get people to believe. And sure a lot of people voted this way last time around because they have been so let down by people on both sides of the political spectrum that they decided just to vote to burn the house down. … And this isn't to excuse the racism or the misogyny or the xenophobia in that campaign. But we should look at why those things found more fertile ground than usual without excusing it.”

Buttigieg added: “What we've got to now say to these voters is, ‘okay, you voted to burn the house down, now the house is on fire, but he has not done one thing to make your life better. And if you think your problem is brown people when your job is about to get automated away and you don't have the retirement savings you need to actually have a dignified remainder of your life then you're not going to make it with this president.'”

video
play-rounded-fill
Link

Topics: Daily Resist, Education, Health, Politics More Posts About: 2020 Election, 2020 Election, Chris Cuomo, Daily Resist, Pete Buttigieg

Related Posts
  • Pete Buttigieg Net Worth: A Closer Look at His Finances
  • Buttigieg: Republicans target LGBTQ people because they ‘don’t want to talk about’ their ‘radical positions’
  • Mike Pence Refuses To Apologize For Homophobic Maternity Leave Joke Directed At Pete Buttigieg
  • Mel B declares she’ll ‘always be open’ when it comes to her sexuality!

    Mel B declares she’ll ‘always be open’ when it comes to her sexuality!

    Published by BANG Showbiz English Mel B will “always be open” when it comes to her sexuality. The Spice Girls singer, 48, who reunited with her bandmates including the group's ex-singer Victoria Beckham for the fashion …Read More »
  • Megan Thee Stallion being sued for ‘forcing cameraman watch her having lesbian sex!’

    Megan Thee Stallion being sued for ‘forcing cameraman watch her having lesbian sex!’

    Published by BANG Showbiz English Megan Thee Stallion is being sued for allegedly creating a hostile work environment and forcing her cameraman to watch her having lesbian sex. The 29-year-old ‘Savage' rapper faces the salacious claims …Read More »
  • Mean Girls star Jonathan Bennett recalls the moment his life ‘changed forever’

    Mean Girls star Jonathan Bennett recalls the moment his life ‘changed forever’

    Published by BANG Showbiz English Jonathan Bennett's life was “changed forever” by his role in ‘Mean Girls'. The 42-year-old actor starred as heartthrob Aaron Samuels in the 2004 cult classic – which followed Lindsay Lohan, Rachel …Read More »
  • Sir Elton John sent Lance Bass gift basket to celebrate coming out

    Sir Elton John sent Lance Bass gift basket to celebrate coming out

    Published by BANG Showbiz English Sir Elton John sent Lance Bass a gift basket after he came out as gay. The 44-year-old NSYNC star revealed the legendary singer showed his support when Lance decided to reveal …Read More »
Previous Post: « Justin Trudeau Makes History as First Canadian Prime Minister to Visit a Gay Bar: WATCH
Next Post: Betsy DeVos’s Education Dept. is Failing to Protect LGBTQ Students, Says Damning Report »

Primary Sidebar

Most Recent

  • Sophia Bush’s girlfriend ‘proud’ the actress has opened up about coming out as queer

    Sophia Bush’s girlfriend ‘proud’ the actress has opened up about coming out as queer

  • Mel B declares she’ll ‘always be open’ when it comes to her sexuality!

    Mel B declares she’ll ‘always be open’ when it comes to her sexuality!

  • Megan Thee Stallion being sued for ‘forcing cameraman watch her having lesbian sex!’

    Megan Thee Stallion being sued for ‘forcing cameraman watch her having lesbian sex!’

  • Mean Girls star Jonathan Bennett recalls the moment his life ‘changed forever’

    Mean Girls star Jonathan Bennett recalls the moment his life ‘changed forever’

  • Sir Elton John sent Lance Bass gift basket to celebrate coming out

    Sir Elton John sent Lance Bass gift basket to celebrate coming out

  • Relationship status influences heterosexual women’s sexual prejudice towards lesbians

    Relationship status influences heterosexual women’s sexual prejudice towards lesbians

  • JoJo Siwa had a challenge transitioning to new grown-up image

    JoJo Siwa had a challenge transitioning to new grown-up image

  • Liz Hurley defends lesbian sex scene in new movie that was directed by her son

    Liz Hurley defends lesbian sex scene in new movie that was directed by her son

Partner Links

  • Immorality And More
    Open thread below... read more
  • Randy Rainbow visits with Kelly Clarkson
    “She wanted to raise the gayest kid on Long Island!” Comedian […]
  • Song of the Day: 'Only Love Can Break Your Heart' by Saint Etienne
    Today marks exactly 35 years since the release of Saint Etienne's […]
  • Baldwin Isn't Fire, But She'll Keep A Simmering Heat On RFK Jr.
    Earlier this month, Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin confronted RFK, Jr, about […]
  • Remains of the Day (05/28)
    Out: Benito Skinner teases "Overcompensating" season 2 storylinesCBS News: Infant fatally […]

Most Commented

Social

Twitter @tlrd | Facebook | Instagram @tlrd

About

  • Advertise
  • Contact Us
  • About Towleroad
  • Towleroad on Social Media
  • Privacy Policy
[towleroadmr] [towleroadtn]

Footer

Ptown Hacks 2018

Read

  • Travel
  • Film
  • Law – LGBT Rights
  • Columns
  • Specials

About

  • Advertise
  • Contact Us
  • About Towleroad
  • Towleroad on Social Media
  • Privacy Policy

Copyright © 2025 · Log in

×
×