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Buttigieg gains with crowds, TV spots and campaign cash
By SARA BURNETT Associated Press
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg is riding in the back of a rented minivan to his last event of the day in South Caro- lina, munching on cold french fries and critiquing his stage performance so far.
The enthusiastic crowds of hundreds
who’ve packed his first two stops have been much larger than the 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and his team expected. It’s “wonderful,” he says, but the cheering and prolonged applause are messing with his delivery. Sometimes he neglects to pause, and his next words are drowned out. Other times people
start clapping when he doesn’t expect it. “I need to relearn the timing of my
stump speech,” Buttigieg says. “I’ve been used to a format where I go in, there’s 50 people, I do my little spiel and then we have some Q&A and hopefully they walk away impressed. Now every one of these things we put on the calendar as a
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