‘No pathway’: Obama campaign chief says Pete Buttigieg can’t win

Published July 30, 2019 4:25pm ET



President Obama’s former campaign manager said Pete Buttigieg’s lack of black support means be cannot be the 2020 Democratic nominee.

“There’s no pathway to the Democratic nomination for president without a significant African American vote,” Jim Messina, who led Obama’s reelection campaign in 2012 and was a top aide in his 2008 campaign, told CNN on Tuesday.

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