Mayor Pete Buttigieg on severe Democratic presidential frontrunners
Democratic presidential claimant Pete Buttigieg joins Chris Wallace on ‘Fox News Sunday.’
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wanted to make transparent on Monday that while he did advise 2020 Democratic presidential contender Pete Buttigieg on some discuss hires, a pierce “shouldn’t be taken as an endorsement.”
Speaking during a discussion call with reporters, Zuckerberg pronounced that he and Buttigieg have a series of mutual friends from college and that a series of his colleagues during Facebook had asked him to pass along their resumes to a South Bend, Ind. mayor in a hopes of receiving a pursuit on his presidential campaign.
“This should not be misconstrued as if I’m deeply concerned in perplexing to support their discuss or something like that,” pronounced Zuckerberg during a call.
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Both Zuckerberg and Buttigieg attended Harvard University, with their time during a Ivy League propagandize overlapping in 2003 and 2004. Buttigieg graduated in 2004. He majored in story and literature, while Zuckerberg famously forsaken out of a propagandize in his sophomore year.
Zuckerberg’s comments on advising a Buttigieg discuss came as a amicable media height announced a presidential spending tracker, that will concede users on a site to see what regions possibilities are targeting and if an ad ran on Facebook, Instagram, or Messenger.
The news also comes on a heels of what many have called Buttigieg’s best discuss opening of a 2020 discuss season, with a routinely stoic mayor display singular external glow by pointedly severe Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., on her health caring devise and former Rep. Beto O’Rourke, of Texas, on gun control.
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“I don’t mind being a small professorial during times,” Buttigieg concurred in a review with reporters final month. He added, “Sometimes we consider I’m misread since I’m laid-back. I’m misread as being bloodless.”
Buttigieg’s discuss opening saw him get a large boost in a polls, with a new USA Today/Suffolk check of Iowa caucus-goers display him leading Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders for third place behind Warren and former Vice President Joe Biden.
Fox News’ Hillary Vaughn and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
