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===African American support===

===African American support===

[[File:Bootyjudge panderig.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Mayor Pete indulges in a vulgar racial stereotype to pander for support.<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/06/twitter-mocks-buttigieg-for-pandering-to-voters-by-drinking-in-public-out-of-a-paper-bag/</ref>]]

[[File:Bootyjudge panderig.jpg|right|500px|thumb|Mayor Pete charged with engaging in a racial stereotype (drinking out of a paper bag with blacks) to pander their support.<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/06/twitter-mocks-buttigieg-for-pandering-to-voters-by-drinking-in-public-out-of-a-paper-bag/</ref>]]

Buttigieg has virtually no support from African Americans, who are essential to a presidential nomination by the [[Democrat Party]]. In May 2019 he polled at 0% support by blacks in [[South Carolina]] where black voters make up 61 percent of the electorate (although a poll a month later showed 6% support),<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/06/17/buttigiegs-approach-courting-black-voters-appears-be-working/</ref> and which holds a pivotal early primary and very few blacks are willing even to attend his events:

Buttigieg has virtually no support from African Americans, who are essential to a presidential nomination by the [[Democrat Party]]. In May 2019 he polled at 0% support by blacks in [[South Carolina]] where black voters make up 61 percent of the electorate (although a poll a month later showed 6% support),<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/06/17/buttigiegs-approach-courting-black-voters-appears-be-working/</ref> and which holds a pivotal early primary and very few blacks are willing even to attend his events:

{{cquote|He scheduled a meet-and-greet Monday in Orangeburg — a city that is 76 percent black — but only a dozen or so people of color showed up in a crowd of more than 100. At a town hall the night before — held at a North Charleston high school where minority enrollment is 97 percent in a city that is roughly half-black — it was another overwhelmingly white audience.<ref>https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/06/pete-buttigieg-2020-black-voters-1307358</ref>}}

{{cquote|He scheduled a meet-and-greet Monday in Orangeburg — a city that is 76 percent black — but only a dozen or so people of color showed up in a crowd of more than 100. At a town hall the night before — held at a North Charleston high school where minority enrollment is 97 percent in a city that is roughly half-black — it was another overwhelmingly white audience.<ref>https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/06/pete-buttigieg-2020-black-voters-1307358</ref>}}