Pete Buttigieg and the black vote: two things Democrats aren't allowed to say

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During the years that their careers overlapped as ambitious and rising young politicians, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg appeared to have a collegial and friendly relationship.

Imagine the shock when Buttigieg’s campaign book revealed this wasn’t the case. Pence made “numerous appearances” in the memoir, the Daily Beast reported, “where he is depicted as a holy warrior, whose obsession with social conservatism embarrassed the state.”

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