What People Are Saying About Pete Buttigieg’s Debate Performance
“Moving Answer...Most Personal Moment of the Debate...Knocked it Out of the Park...Very Strong Closing Statement...AWESOME...Most Inspiring Moment...Very Powerful Statement...Historic”
Asma Khalid @asmamk: Buttigieg talking about coming out is really a story we have never heard on the national debate stage in a presidential election. Every so often, it's easy to forget how novel that is.
David Axelrod @davidaxelrod: Moving answer from @PeteButtigieg about the meaning of politics.
Katie Couric @katiecouric: This was a very powerful statement from Mayor Pete #DemDebate
Julian Zelizer @julianzelizer: @PeteButtigieg delivers a very strong closing statement.
Mike Murphy @mcwm: mayor Pete just knocked it out of the park tbh
Ben Wexler @mrbenwexler: Buttigieg’s answer was AWESOME
Adam Wren @adamwren: With that emotional close, hard to argue @PeteButtigieg didn’t get the moment he needed tonight.
Vanessa Yurkevich @vyurkevich: Mayor Buttigieg was emotional in his closing remarks about resiliency talking about coming out after his time in the army during “don’t ask don’t tell” and running for his second term as Mayor in South Bend. #DemocraticDebates
Cameron Joseph @cam_joseph: .@PeteButtigieg talking about his coming out after he returned from Afghanistan and while he was running for reelection as mayor. Most personal moment of this debate.
Maureen McFadden @MMcFaddenTV: .@PeteButtigieg slammed his final statement. THAT was presidential!
Astead Wesley @AsteadWesley: shouldn't lose sight of how that buttigieg moment, a major candidate openly talking about coming out on presidential debate stage, is a historic one that seemed unlikely even a decade ago
Charles M. Blow @CharlesMBlow: I really like Mayor Pete’s closing. #DemocraticDebates
Sylvia K. Alston @SylviaKAlston: @PeteButtigieg one of my favorite closings of the evening. #DemDebate
Jim Gray @JimGrayLexKY: I’m watching the Dem debate tonight and Pete Buttigieg continues to stand out. As a mayor and a veteran from a Midwest industrial city, he understands what’s at stake.
Dan Weeks @DemocracyDan Here's a revolutionary idea from @PeteButtigieg: appoint a Secretary of Education who believes in public education. Oh, and show teachers the respect they deserve by paying them like doctors to educate our kids. #FITN #NHPolitics #DemDebate #TeamPete
Jim Gray @JimGrayLexKY:Mayor Pete led his community in turning around a city that was called “dying.” He knows it’s still possible for us to come together and make peoples’ lives better.
Adam Wren @adamwren: That answer from Buttigieg was something else.
Christine Quinn @chriscquinn: Speaking about trust and coming out
@PeteButtigieg makes a powerful statement of hope for our country. Thank you! Makes me proud! #lgbt #demdebate
Aniesia Williams @iamaniesia: @PeteButtigieg’s answer....my God. I felt that. Jesus I felt that. I believe America did too. #DemDebate #DemDebateTSU
Kara Voght @karavoght: .@PeteButtigieg notes that we often put white working class auto workers again single black women, but where he comes from, the auto works *is* a single black woman. Such an important point. People keep missing that union jobs *are* increasingly women and people of color.
Lynette KhalfaniCox @themoneycoach: Mayor Pete Buttigieg ... OMG ... just a pitch perfect answer to the Q about resilience. He speaks candidly/honestly about coming out as a gay man, about trust, and about not knowing whether his career would be over by living his truth. So much humanity there. #DemDebate
Joe Mirabella @joeMirabella:I wish I could go back and tell my scared closted middle school self that someday a gay man would describe his coming out process on the #DemocraticDebates stage. Thank you @PeteButtigieg for giving young #LGBTQ people hope.
Kurt Bardella @kurtbardella: Powerful personal testimony from @PeteButtigieg about coming out ... he's right - this election is about the voters and empowering/trusting them: "when I trusted voters to judge me based on the job that I did for them, they decided to trust me" #DemocraticDebate #DemDebate
Steve Culbertson @Culbs: I can’t imagine voting for anyone else up there before Mayor Pete.
