Pence smarted from the mayor's attacks, as Buttigieg rides his disagreement with the vice president to greater prominence in the Democratic presidential campaign.
By Isaac Stanley-Becker Isaac Stanley-Becker Reporter based in the U.K. Email Bio Follow April 11 at 6:51 AM The mayor said the governor struck him as “affable, even gentle.”What went awry between Democrat Pete Buttigieg, the gay mayor of South Bend, Ind., and White House aspirant, and Mike Pence, once the state’s Republican governor and now the country’s vice president?
Buttigieg is playing up their differences in his now not-so-long-shot bid for the Democratic nomination. The 37-year-old mayor and Afghanistan war veteran surged to third place in a poll of New Hampshire voters released Wednesday by the Saint Anselm College Survey Center. [‘It got real gay real quick’: Pete Buttigieg’s rise electrifies the gay community, but he could face a rocky road]
In his book, “Shortest Way Home: One Mayor’s Challenge and a Model for America’s Future,” Buttigieg recalled how he had associated the most hard-line faction of Indiana politics with Pence’s record in Congress as a “conservative warrior.” He was surprised, then, to learn that he was personally gracious when they met for the first time at a 2011 event at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the mayor wrote.
After seeing Pence duck a question on ABC’s “This Week” in March 2015 about discrimination against the LGBTQ community, Buttigieg strained to “reconcile what I had just seen on-screen with the Mike Pence I knew, a man who had always been gracious and decent to me in person,” he wrote. Two months later, Pence joined the Republican ticket as Trump’s running mate. According to a 2017 profile of Pence in the New Yorker, Trump had once joked that his No. 2 wanted to “hang” gay people. A spokeswoman for Pence called the claims “untrue and offensive.”
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