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Buttigieg’s brilliant takedown of a homophobic rant.

Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana and a Democratic 2020 hopeful, responded to homophobic comments from a local Tennessee official that went viral after a recorded meeting on Monday. In a widely-spread video, county commissioner Warren Hurst can be…

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Buttigieg is making the Democratic race more unpredictable.

It’s usually against best practices to telegraph a punch, but Pete Buttigieg knew what he was doing when he previewed his attack against Elizabeth Warren in a digital ad bashing Medicare for All ahead of last week’s debate. The ad predictably…

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Right-wing activist: ‘make homosexuality unthinkable again’.

Radical right-wing activist Dave Daubenmire served as the keynote speaker at a fundraiser for the Harrison County (Ohio) Republican Party last Thursday, before returning to his webcast the following morning to obsessively attack Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg for being gay…

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Russian trolls are back. And they’re here to meddle with 2020.

People linked to the Internet Research Agency, the Kremlin-backed troll group indicted by the United States for its alleged interference in the 2016 US presidential election, are laying the groundwork to do the same in 2020, new information released by Facebook on Monday suggests…

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Buttigieg emerges as new threat to Biden after debate.

Joe Biden faces a new threat from South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who is fresh off an eye-opening debate performance and positioning himself to be a top contender for the support of centrist Democrats if the former vice president falters…