Pete Buttigieg thrives in town halls: It was one of them, on CNN in March, that initially sent him near the top of what is now a 23-person Democratic presidential field. Less than a month after he appeared on Fox News, whose audience gave him an enthusiastic reception but also combative questions, Mr. Buttigieg visited the more welcoming terrain of MSNBC on Monday. The Fresno, Calif., audience was friendly; the questions friendlier still. At points, he seemed to be fine-tuning in real time, working through kinks and grappling aloud with possible holes in his arguments. Asked whether prisoners should be able to vote — an idea that Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont has backed but that most candidates, including Mr. Buttigieg, have not — he at first offered a straightforward answer.

Source: New York Times June 03, 2019 22:46 UTC