Pete Buttigieg Gets Taunted, Chased Out of Campaign Stop Gone Wrong

Open the borders and flood the US with workers and watch what happens with supply and demand in minimum wage jobs, lots and lots of supply, will keep wages low. – But reality has no place in politics.

— Ed Jackson (@Roderickoooo) February 24, 2020

What union is that? All you can eat union?

— Dude (@dudeisback4) February 24, 2020

I guess he’s not getting the black McDonald worker vote. Let’s go to John King at the Magic Wall. John…what percentage does the black McDonald’s worker vote total in the US? pic.twitter.com/urHzkqt1C9

— Josh Michael 🌈 ⚽️🏈⚾️ (@JoshMayhugh1) February 24, 2020

Basically, it was a clash of naiveté – or opportunism.

The phrase “Fight for 15” might sound good on a Democratic Party to-do list, but the experience where it’s tried shows just how job-killing it is.

Buttigieg might know that, but it’s not stopping him from attempting to pander to the union vote – an all-important voting bloc in a Democratic primary.

The protesters might or might not know it, but if they do, they just think they’re going to be one of the lucky ones who gets the higher-paying job.

But above all, it was a public relations disaster for Buttigieg’s already presumptuous presidential campaign, which at 9.8 percent isn’t even in the double digits in voter support among South Carolina voters, according to RealClearPolitics.

(Former Vice President Joe Biden is in first place in what amounts to a do-or-die contest for him with 26.8 percent support. Vermont’s socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders is in second with 21.7 percent and climate activist/billionaire Tom Steyer is in third with 14.7 percent.)

With Saturday’s Democratic primary in the Palmetto State fast approaching, public embarrassment isn’t going to help much.

Major mainstream media are likely to bury the story – if it had happened to a Republican it would be leading every nightly newscast – but video and audio of a boy prince who wants to be king being hounded out of an event by a group that’s among his party’s biggest supporters is not the look Buttigieg wanted in South Carolina.