Fact Check: Pete Buttigieg Falsely Claims Americans Are Buying Weapons of War
CLAIM: During the South Carolina Democrat debate Pete Buttigieg was discussing school shootings when he suggested Americans buy and use guns built for warfare.
CLAIM: During the South Carolina Democrat debate Pete Buttigieg was discussing school shootings when he suggested Americans buy and use guns built for warfare.
CLAIM: Bernie Sanders claims that President Donald Trump’s economy has left 87 million Americans without health insurance.
CLAIM: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s (D) 2020 presidential campaign is funded by billionaires.
Former Mayor Pete Buttigieg called former Mayor Michael Bloomberg racist on Tuesday for using “stop and frisk” to stop crime in New York City.
Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg, Mike Bloomberg, Tom Steyer, and Amy Klobuchar will debate on Tuesday evening in Charleston, South Carolina. CBS News and the Congressional Black Caucus Institute will co-host the debate. Stay tuned to Breitbart News for live updates. All times eastern.
CHARLESTON, South Carolina — All seven of the presidential candidates onstage for Tuesday night’s debate are white, and they will be appealing to a South Carolina Democratic primary electorate that is predominantly black.
Critics of former Mayor Pete Buttigieg argue he plagiarized former President Barack Obama in a recent speech that sounds remarkably similar.
Appearing Monday evening at a CNN town hall event in South Carolina, former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg said he once would have taken a “pill” to change his orientation from gay to straight, but he no longer feels that way because of his “amazing marriage” to husband Chasten Buttigieg.
During a town hall on CNN on Monday, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg stated that religious institutions that refuse to hire or serve LGBTQ people should lose federal funding. Buttigieg said, “I believe that federal funding
Pete Buttigieg said that while he did “not have that lived experience” of African Americans, he promised to listen in his administration.
Pete Buttigieg (D) joined the mounting critiques of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) following the socialist senator praising aspects of the Fidel Castro’s tyrannical regime in Cuba.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) released his plan to give free, full-day child care for every child beginning at infancy and free preschool education to all children starting at age three at a cost of $1.5 trillion over the next ten years.
Kansas candidate for the United States Senate Kris Kobach says Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is supporting legislation by House Democrats that will fly deported criminal illegal aliens back to the U.S.
Former Mayor Pete Buttigieg advised a nine-year-old boy on how to come out as gay during a campaign town hall in Colorado on Saturday.
The Democratic Party cannot stop Bernie Sanders without alienating his supporters, and may have to reconcile itself to a socialist nominee.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) took the national delegate lead from former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg on Saturday night with a big win in the Nevada caucuses.
Bill de Blasio scolded Pete Buttigieg after the latter warned voters that Bernie Sanders’s socialist “revolution … leaves out most Democrats, not to mention most Americans.”
“Senator Sanders’ revolution has the tenor of combat, division, and polarization, a vision where whoever wins the day, nothing will change the toxic tone of our politics,” he said.
Mayor Pete Buttigieg did not do well at the Nevada presidential primary caucus at the Wynn resort in Las Vegas on Saturday.
Multiple media outlets on Saturday evening called the Nevada caucus for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), as the results continued to roll in.
Democrats in Nevada will caucus on Saturday. The caucuses will begin at 3 PM ET. Stay tuned to Breitbart News for live updates. All times eastern.
Friday on MSNBC, former South Bend, IN Mayor Pete Buttigieg, one of the frontrunners vying for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination, went on offense against former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Trump acknowledged that few people understood what he was talking about when he referred to Buttigieg as Alfred E. Newman, because they were not “aficionados” of Mad Magazine.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) took aim at his latest rival, Michael Bloomberg (D), on Thursday for attempting to “buy the presidency” after Federal Election Commission (FEC) data showed the billionaire spending roughly $7 million per day on his last-minute election bid.
Democrat presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg apparently felt the sting of Rush Limbaugh’s recent comments about his masculinity and lashed out at the radio icon and Trump supporters in an interview with Ellen DeGeneres.
Pete Buttigieg’s father was “an avowed Marxist” admired by communists, noted Sebastian Gorka, host of America First
A new poll released Thursday from Quinnipiac University shows President Donald Trump leading Democrat presidential hopefuls in Wisconsin while trailing those same candidates in Pennsylvania and Michigan.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) was the only individual on Wednesday night’s debate stage who expressed the belief that whichever candidate goes into the Democratic National Convention with the most delegates this summer — regardless if it is a majority — should be the party’s nominee.
Claim: Pete Buttigieg said during Wednesday’s debate in Las Vegas, Nevada, that the climate change doomsday deadline is now and asserted that “we will never meet any of the other scientific or policy deadlines that we need to” if the country does not elect someone who will take action.
Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg’s brother-in-law Pastor Rhyan Glezman criticized Buttigieg on Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Wednesday.
Claim: Pete Buttigieg (D) suggested during Wednesday evening’s debate in Las Vegas, Nevada, that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Michael Bloomberg (D) are not truly Democrats.
The barbs flew at the Democrat debate on Wednesday and speculation about just who won and who lost continued long into the night, but for Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) the more than $2 million dollars each raked in after the stage lights dimmed counted for just as much.
My main takeaway from last night is not Bloomberg’s humiliating performance. No, my main takeaway is that the dynamics of the Democrat primary race did not change, and that’s why Bloomberg has a second chance.
The Democrat presidential candidates launched at least 50 different attacks that, at times, appeared to overwhelm the NBC debate moderators.
Democrat debate moderator Lester Holt resorted to repeating, “Hello! Hello! Hello!” several times, trying to get the candidates’ attention.
Neither the moderators nor the candidates at Wednesday’s Democrat Party debate took the time to discuss national security or foreign policy issues in-depth, instead spending significant portions of the broadcast discussing former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s history of racist and sexist comments.
Former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) got into a heated exchange at the Democrat presidential primary debate in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Wednesday after Klobuchar was questioned on her mishap of not knowing the president of Mexico’s name.
Buttigieg wedged in a few lines in Spanish in the Democrat presidential debate on Wednesday, as he came under attack from rivals.
The translated line is, “We should tell Dreamers that we support them, and we understand that this country is your country too.”
Former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) traded barbs at the ninth Democrat debate on Wednesday evening in Las Vegas when Buttigieg implied that Sanders’ far-left campaign was inciting violence.
Sanders is an Independent from Vermont who identifies as a socialist and caucuses with Democrats. Bloomberg has switched parties several times. He went from Democrat to Republican to Independent and back to Democrat.