Pete Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, Ind., and a candidate for chairman of the Democratic National Committee, greets supporters during a DNC forum in Baltimore on Feb. 11. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters)Former Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean endorsed DNC candidate Pete Buttigieg on Wednesday, with a media tour that began on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” and continued on a call with reporters. “They elected Obama twice, and they voted for Hillary, but they don’t turn out in midterm elections,” Dean said. According to public whip counts, no DNC chair candidate has the race locked. South Carolina Democratic Party Chairman Jaime Harrison and Indiana Democratic Party Executive Director Sally Boynton Brown are believed to have as many, or more, endorsements than Buttigieg, none of them reaching far beyond the teens.

Source: Washington Post February 22, 2017 19:03 UTC