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===African American opposition===
===African American opposition===
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 very little 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>}}
His overwhelmingly white crowds were especially noticeable during his four March 23 events in [[South Carolina]], an early primary state where 28 percent of the population, but 55 percent of the Democratic electorate, is Black. Buttigieg polled stronger among voters who are white, earn more than $100,000 a year, are college-educated and self-identify as "liberal" or "very liberal." When asked in a private meeting about his support from African-American leaders in South Bend, the mayor couldn't think of one person. Rep. [[Marcia Fudge]] (D-OH), the former chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, said "I don't know of one black person out of Indiana that supports him." Fudge said he depicts a sense of "arrogance" and "entitlement."<ref>https://www.thedailybeast.com/pete-buttigieg-has-a-black-problem-top-african-american-leaders-say-he-is-naive-on-race?source=twitter&via=desktop</ref>
His overwhelmingly white crowds were especially noticeable during his four March 23 events in [[South Carolina]], an early primary state where 28 percent of the population, but 55 percent of the Democratic electorate, is Black. Buttigieg polled stronger among voters who are white, earn more than $100,000 a year, are college-educated and self-identify as "liberal" or "very liberal." When asked in a private meeting about his support from African-American leaders in South Bend, the mayor couldn't think of one person. Rep. [[Marcia Fudge]] (D-OH), the former chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, said "I don't know of one black person out of Indiana that supports him." Fudge said he depicts a sense of "arrogance" and "entitlement."<ref>https://www.thedailybeast.com/pete-buttigieg-has-a-black-problem-top-african-american-leaders-say-he-is-naive-on-race?source=twitter&via=desktop</ref>
Some residents of South Bend's impoverished West Side criticize Buttigieg's two-term mayorship. One such, the Rev. Sylvester Williams Jr. of the Interfaith Christian Union. stated, “It seemed like he was focused on creating a progressive city, that he was above tending to those basic needs.” Williams said the city had a “record number of homicides” when Buttigieg was mayor of South Bend. FBI data show that violent crimes surged from 622 in 2012, his first year, to 1,088 in 2018. Councilman Henry Davis Jr., said Buttigieg was “inept” as mayor and “always had one foot out the door.” Meanwhile, although South Bend' saw many improvements under Buttigieg, Indiana Republican Party chairman Kyle Hupfer countered that while Buttigieg “certainly had a few economic development wins,” he actually had “little, if anything, to do with that. Contrary to such, Buttigieg’s campaign stated (in part) that under his administration, the unemployment and poverty rates for Black residents fell faster in South Bend than for their counterparts across the state and the nation. <ref>Reuven Fenton and Bruce Golding, "Why South Bend residents are warning America about Pete Buttigieg," The NY Post, Retrieved, February 19, 2020</ref>
In [[New Hampshire]] Buttigieg threw [[Obama]] under the bus.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyI136o93kc Pete Buttigieg Says That The Economy Wasn’t “Working For Most Of Us” Under President Obama], youtube.</ref> Early on "Diversity" meant "gay," not "black." As Buttigieg surpassed [[Kamala Harris]] in the polls after the Third pre-Primary Debate moving into the #4 slot, he suddenly became ashamed of his gayness.<ref>https://www.theblaze.com/news/pete-buttigieg-says-hes-steering-clear-of-lgbt-media</ref>
In [[New Hampshire]] Buttigieg threw [[Obama]] under the bus.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyI136o93kc Pete Buttigieg Says That The Economy Wasn’t “Working For Most Of Us” Under President Obama], youtube.</ref> Early on "Diversity" meant "gay," not "black." As Buttigieg surpassed [[Kamala Harris]] in the polls after the Third pre-Primary Debate moving into the #4 slot, he suddenly became ashamed of his gayness.<ref>https://www.theblaze.com/news/pete-buttigieg-says-hes-steering-clear-of-lgbt-media</ref>