Washington (CNN) Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg addressed again on Sunday concerns from minority staffers about key decisions made in the campaign and its overall culture of inclusion, saying his campaign has taken corrective steps to respond to the issues. "More than 40% of the staff on our campaign are people of color doing a phenomenal job and need to be supported and deserve to be supported. So, we've taken steps that maybe, in history and in historical campaigns, haven't been done -- creating conversations and spaces for workers who are facing the challenges that I think any person of color in the workplace today is dealing with and making sure we're responsive to this," Buttigieg told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union." Last week, Buttigieig's campaign acknowledged that it has, over the course of several months, responded to the concerns, and he told reporters in Iowa that his campaign has "got to work much harder to do a better job when it comes to making sure that that inclusion is a reality, especially in the Trump era." Also asked Sunday by Tapper if he regrets saying last year that President Donald Trump's voters are "looking the other way on racism," Buttigieg said he doesn't and that he's "very concerned about the racial division that this President has fostered."

Source: CNN February 02, 2020 18:33 UTC