Conservatives Marvel at Buttigieg’s Debate Performance
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By all accounts, openly gay, South Bend, IN, Mayor Pete Buttigieg was the clear winner at Wednesday night’s Democratic debate.
Really good answer from Buttigieg on impeachment. Really, really good.
— Liz Mair (@LizMair) October 16, 2019
Buttigieg did so well, he caught the eye and admiration of conservative pundits. According to The Week, “Jennifer Rubin, a conservative writer for The Washington Post, marveled at Buttigieg’s performance, tweeting that the mayor was “hitting this out of the park, out of the town.” Matt Lewis, a conservative columnist at The Daily Beast, added: “I don’t pretend to know how this exchange plays on the left, but … Pete Buttigieg is winning this debate.”
The daughter of the late Republican Sen. John McCain, Meghan McCain, also cheered Buttigieg when he pushed back on former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s gun buyback proposal:
Yesssss Mayor @PeteButtigieg! Finish him!!!!!!!! Beto and his insane gun buyback rhetoric which is completely implausible and unconstitutional. #DemDebate pic.twitter.com/H5PRnoxr8L
— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) October 16, 2019