Buttigieg Sows Can-He-Win Doubts Even Where He’s Holding a Lead
- Iowa Democrats say he could win there, but then falter
- Young mayor has stumbled in outreach to African Americans
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Pete Buttigieg’s struggle to win over black voters is threatening to cut into his support in Iowa, where he holds a sizable lead and voters prize their reputation for picking presidents.
Voters in Iowa, an overwhelmingly white state where the ritual of caucuses every four years opens the presidential election season, are getting worried that if they pick the young mayor of South Bend, Indiana, he’ll falter in states where non-white voters hold more sway.