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

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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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