{"id":1642921,"date":"2022-09-16T13:34:51","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T17:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1642921"},"modified":"2022-09-16T13:35:21","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T17:35:21","slug":"why-obama-doesnt-think-pete-buttigieg-can-win-a-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-obama-doesnt-think-pete-buttigieg-can-win-a-presidential-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Obama Doesn\u2019t Think Pete Buttigieg Can Win a Presidential Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhy-obama-doesnt-think-pete-buttigieg-can-win-a-presidential-election%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1642921&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">New book reveals former president&#8217;s true feelings about the 2020 Democratic field<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/andrew-stiles\/\" title=\"Posts by Andrew Stiles\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Andrew Stiles<\/a> \u2022 September 16, 2022 1:30 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Former president Barack Obama thought Pete Buttigieg was &#8220;too short&#8221; to win the 2020 presidential election, according to a recently published book about Obama&#8217;s relationship with former running mate Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Obama had actually been\u00a0impressed by the brains, charisma, and chutzpah of the thirty-something mayor of a small midwestern city,&#8221; writes <em>New York<\/em> magazine correspondent Gabriel Debenedetti in<em> The<\/em> <em>Long Alliance<\/em>. &#8220;Obama just doubted it would all add up to viability in a presidential campaign where image and fame mattered immensely\u2014he thought Buttigieg was too short and, as a former volunteer for Obama in 2008, seemed too young\u2014and where such a large field would make breaking through that much harder.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> first <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/pete-buttigieg-height\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> on Buttigieg&#8217;s height problem in February 2020, several weeks before the former South Bend mayor dropped out of the race after failing to win a statistically significant percentage of black voters. At that point, former president Donald Trump had been <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/461222-trump-mocks-buttigiegs-height-ive-had-him-up-to-here\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mocking<\/a> Mayor Pete&#8217;s diminutive stature for months.\u00a0Our reporting, which noted the curious lack of information about Buttigieg&#8217;s height available on the world wide web, determined that he is 5 foot 8 inches tall <em>at most<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Obama is right. Buttigieg is way too short to be president. Every single commander in chief since William McKinley (1897-1901) has been at least 5 foot 9 inches tall. It&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/satire\/contra-axios-pete-buttigieg-will-never-be-president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">never going to happen<\/a>, but height isn&#8217;t the only reason. Debenedetti also notes that Obama was rightfully &#8220;turned off by Buttigieg&#8217;s apparent inability to win over nonwhite voters&#8221; in the Democratic primary.<\/p>\n<p>Biden was similarly impressed by Buttigieg&#8217;s &#8220;gay Obama&#8221; schtick but &#8220;also thought everyone was kidding themselves&#8221; about his viability as a candidate. &#8220;The guy had gotten destroyed in the piddling race for DNC chair in 2017, so how was he going to be the party&#8217;s presidential nominee?&#8221; Debenedetti writes of Biden&#8217;s thinking at the time. The former VP was particularly annoyed when a bunch of former Obama staffers started lining up behind Buttigieg and Beto O&#8217;Rourke, another candidate with no shot at winning. &#8220;You believe this shit?&#8221; Biden would often vent to aides and associates.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Obama didn&#8217;t even want Biden to run in 2020 (or 2016).\u00a0&#8220;You don&#8217;t have to do this, Joe, you really don&#8217;t,&#8221; he reportedly told his former vice president before Biden declared his candidacy. As the Democratic primary wore on, Obama <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/obama-biden-warning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tried to warn<\/a> his fellow Democrats not to &#8220;underestimate Joe&#8217;s ability to fuck things up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Right again.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats New book reveals former president&#8217;s true feelings about the 2020 Democratic field  Andrew Stiles \u2022 September 16, 2022 1:30 pm Former president Barack Obama thought<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1642921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1642921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1642921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1642921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1642921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}