Democratic presidential candidate Mayor Pete Buttigieg delivers remarks on foreign policy and national security during a speech at the Indiana University Auditorium in Bloomington, Ind., Tuesday, June 11, 2019. Buttigieg used the nearly one-hour speech at Indiana University to address an issue his campaign says has not received the attention it deserves from the 2020 Democratic field. Buttigieg criticized President Donald Trump for making foreign policy decisions erratically — and often delivering them by early morning tweet — but said Democrats also have lacked a consistent policy that contemplates where the world will be decades from today. Buttigieg also criticized members of Congress — a group that includes several of his 2020 Democratic rivals — as being “asleep at the switch” and abdicating their responsibility on issues of war. All seven sitting senators seeking the 2020 Democratic nomination, including Sens.

Source: Washington Post June 11, 2019 16:22 UTC