“When it comes to electability, every single time my party has won the presidency in the last 50 years, it’s been with a candidate who was new on the national scene, hadn’t spent a lot of time in Washington, and represented a new generation of leadership.”
Pete Buttigieg
Democratic presidential candidate. Claim dated 30 Oct 2019.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly True
In short
Pete Buttigieg (Democratic presidential candidate) made this claim around 30 October 2019. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 5 November 2019, 6 days later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
Pete Buttigieg has 33 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 5 of them false or fake, 17 misleading or mixed and 5 true.
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