By Thomas Beaumont, Associated Press
Cedar Rapids, Iowa (AP) – Pete Buttigieg returns to Iowa on Tuesday for an event focused on veterans, six years after having burst into the national political scene with a strong race before the head of the presidential caucus of the state.
Buttigieg, a former intelligence officer in the navy reserves who served in Afghanistan, is the head of a town hall of Cedar Rapids sponsored by the voters of the democratic political organization, which focuses on the cups of President Donald Trump to federal agencies and how they affect veterans and military families.
Although the former 43 -year -old transport secretary did not confirm that he would make a second race in the White House, he got tangled with Trump online and spoke about the changes he wants to see in the Democratic Party.
The opposition to the Republican President “must travel with a clearer image of what we really are,” said Buttigieg during a recent interview with the former press secretary of the White House Biden, Jen Psaki, on MSNBC.
“It must be as clear as our response to authoritarian trends in this administration,” he said. “We would not be in this situation if the government, economy and policy of our country were in good health. They have been unhealthy for a long time. ”
Buttigieg finished at the top of the Iowa Democratic Party counts in the Caucus of 2020 in the grip of problems alongside the Senator of Vermont Bernie Sanders, although the Associated Press did not call a winner by making remaining concerns about whether the results reported by the party are fully accurate.
Buttigieg, a former South Bend, Indiana, mayor who moved with her husband and twins in Michigan, refused races for the US open races and the governor of his adoptive state. His aid insists that his trip to Iowa is intended to meet people and hear their concerns, and not only as an exercise to create a presidential offer.
However, a number of other potential contenders 2028 travel to the country in the first days of the second Trump administration.
Sanders and New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attracted large crowds across the country, especially in Western states led by the Republicans. Illinois Governor JB Pritzker recently called for mass mobilization of Democrats during a speech in New Hampshire and Govs. Wes Moore of Maryland and Tim Walz of the Minnesota plan stops in South Carolina at the end of May.
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