‘Flailing’: Pete Buttigieg rips Trump for rejecting virtual debate

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Pete Buttigieg wasted no time criticizing President Trump after he said he would not participate in a virtual debate.

After his pre-debate interview on Fox News went viral when Buttigieg questioned “why an evangelical Christian like Mike Pence wants to be on a ticket with a president caught with a porn star,” the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, was invited Thursday morning by Fox and Friends host Steve Doocy to comment on the Commission on Presidential Debates’s announcement that next week’s “town meeting” debate would be a virtual event and Trump’s subsequent refusal to participate.

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