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Clay Middleton is a South Carolina Democratic National Committee member advising New Jersey Senator Cory Booker. Middleton told the State newspaper that he was unsurprised by the Buttigieg campaign’s findings in the South Carolina focus group.  “I’ve been a black guy all my life in the South and it is one of those things. African-Americans, when it comes to certain things, are very conservative,” Middleton told the paper. “If you needed a focus group to tell you that, ok.”<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/28/will-pete-buttigiegs-sexuality-be-a-problem-for-him-in-southern-primaries/</ref>
 
Clay Middleton is a South Carolina Democratic National Committee member advising New Jersey Senator Cory Booker. Middleton told the State newspaper that he was unsurprised by the Buttigieg campaign’s findings in the South Carolina focus group.  “I’ve been a black guy all my life in the South and it is one of those things. African-Americans, when it comes to certain things, are very conservative,” Middleton told the paper. “If you needed a focus group to tell you that, ok.”<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/28/will-pete-buttigiegs-sexuality-be-a-problem-for-him-in-southern-primaries/</ref>
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===Buttigieg and fake news reporting===
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''[[The LA Times]]'' reported that Buttigieg blamed Barack Obama for the election of Donald Trump.
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{{cquote|My message is not about going back to where we were,” he said.
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For a lot of people, “‘normal’ has been a real problem for a very long time, and I think the failures of the Obama era help explain how we got Trump.<ref>https://archive.is/5vXG0</ref>}}
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The news set [[Twitter]] afire. Within hours the ''LA Times'' censored the itself and altered the quote.
    
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