2016 Obama was asked who were future leaders of the Dems & who might take on trump....

[FM123]

(New York Times) During an exit interview in November, 2016, just weeks after the election, David Remnick asked President Obama who the future leaders of the Democratic Party might be, and who could realistically challenge Trump in 2020. A surprising figure Obama named was Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, who, at the time, was only thirty-four.

David Remnick: Mr. Mayor, I have to begin with a kind of good-news, sort of bad-news question. One day after Barack Obama met, that one time, with Donald Trump, I had an interview with the outgoing President, in the Oval Office. It went for a couple of hours. The White House was like a funeral parlor. We talked a long time about the election just past. And, at one point, I said, “Mr. President, what do you have on the bench? What does the Democratic Party have on the bench?” And he did a long kind of Obamaian pause, and then he said, “Well, there’s Kamala Harris, in California.” And I think he kind of made a routine mention of Tim Kaine, and then he said, “And then there’s that guy in South Bend, Indiana. The mayor. I think he was a Rhodes Scholar,” he said, and then he couldn’t quite place the name, or maybe he didn’t dare try to pronounce it.


Read more:
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/pete-buttigieg-plans-win-democratic-presidential-nomination-defeat-trump

[monmouth4]

1. What a great ticket that would be...WOW..n/t

[Merlot]

2. So the first person he thinks of is Kamala Harris...

and yet this is an article about some guy who's name he couldn't remember?

Ok, I see where this is going.

[msongs]

3. article is about pete b so where it is going is obvious to everyone. nt

[LakeArenal]

4. Not surprising after hearing of old Obama staffers working for Pete.

He seems like a great candidate.

I’m stuck On experience and world diplomacy.

Should Pete get the nomination, I would be pleased to vote for him above the other candidates. Despite a post suggesting Beto’s light is dimming, I will be happy to vote for him should he get the nomination.