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Buttigieg Has 'Traction' V22, N25 Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017 Buttigieg has ‘traction’ for DNC vote mer DNC Chair and Vermont South Bend mayor is Gov. Howard Dean endorsed him ‘everyone’s second on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. “The most important thing is he’s the choice’ as Ellison, Perez outside-the-beltway candidate,” Dean said. “Our leadership is old lack first ballot mojo and creaky. He is really capable and smart. He’s what we need.” By BRIAN A. HOWEY Dean cited Buttigieg’s two tours INDIANAPOLIS – With both the of duty in Afghanistan with the Indiana and the U.S. Democratic parties U.S. Naval Reserve. Viewed as a in a state of crisis, South Bend Mayor dark horse, Dean said, “I think Pete Buttigieg will attempt to become Pete’s everybody’s second choice.” the fourth Hoosier to take the helm of The Hill and Politico re- the national organization. ported on Wednesday and today Buttigieg and a field of seven that Rep. Keith Ellison “has the other candidates are vying for 224 votes edge over former Labor secretary in Atlanta on Saturday. The winner will Tom Perez” in surveys of DNC replace interim Chair Donna Brazile, who members. But while both men stepped in last summer when U.S. Rep. claim they are close to securing Debbie Wasserman Schultz was forced commitments from the majority of to resign in the wake of Wikileaks hacks the 447 voting members, neither of the party’s computer servers, perhaps candidate is assured victory. The with the assistance of the Kremlin. At that point, Hillary Hill has identified the stances of 240 DNC members, either Clinton was thought to be a clear frontrunner over Repub- lican Donald Trump. Continued on page 3 Buttigieg got a boost on Wednesday when for- Demise of the Democrats By TONY SAMUEL INDIANAPOLIS – Taking up from where I left off three weeks ago, the numbers have increased as far as protests, protestors and now rowdy town hall meet- ings. Also increasing are vandalism, violence, insults, and threats. I watched a news story “There is no place in America for the other night of a crowd of adults in Chicago encouraging hatred or acts of prejudice, kids to beat the crap out of a pi- violence and anti-Semitism.” ñata in the image of our president and rip its limbs off, after knock- - Vice President Mike Pence, ing it to the ground. Bizarre, disgusting and unbelievable! visiting a vandalized Jew ish To the far left, this hatred cemetery in Missouri looks like a “movement” that is getting stronger. I believe that we on Wednesday are actually witnessing the begin- ning of the end of the Democrat Page 2 Party on the national level as we have far left. This phenomenon is getting known it. so far out of hand so quickly that no This demise has taken off at reasonable member of the Democrat lightning speed since President Trump Party at the national level will be able was inaugurated, because of a lack to pull their party back to a relative of leadership. While Democrats need middle ground. new leadership with a new vision, Finally, 90% of the national they are paralyzed by the loss – I just media is also angry and assisting the heard of something ridiculous called misguided strategy of the far left. post-election stress disorder – and be- They would have the public believe Howey Politics Indiana cause of the wave of anger masked as that the anger from mostly recruited WWHowey Media, LLC 405 a “movement” taking place in pockets protestors yelling at their congress- Massachusetts Ave., Suite around the country. person at town hall meetings is real 300 Indianapolis, IN 46204 When you have three out- news. of-work, really mad, former Democrat In the meantime, Trump loyal- www.howeypolitics.com campaign staffers putting together a ists and Republicans will stick with the playbook to spread Brian A. Howey, Publisher anger over the Inter- Mark Schoeff Jr., Washington net, you don’t have a Jack E. Howey, Editor movement. You have a lack a strategy, Mary Lou Howey, Editor goals, or the ability to Thomas Curry, Statehouse engage in meaningful Mark Curry, photography dialogue. So what is happening and why so Subscriptions rapidly? HPI, HPI Daily Wire $599 First of all, the HPI Weekly, $350 radical far left would Ray Volpe, Account Manager have you believe that 317.602.3620 President Trump is not the legitimate win- email: [email protected] ner because he didn’t Contact HPI win the popular vote. [email protected] They will never admit Howey’s cell: 317.506.0883 that if the race was determined by popu- Washington: 202.256.5822 lar vote, we would Business Office: 317.602.3620 have had a completely different campaign, with candidate president and more independents and © 2017, Howey Politics Trump spending much more time and moderate and blue-collar traditional Indiana. All rights reserved. money in New York and California. Democrats will be driven further to the While he would not have won those middle ground that President Trump Photocopying, Internet forward- states, he would have ended up win- also inhabits. The independents and ing, faxing or reproducing in ning the popular vote in the nation by Democrats will resent the angry left any form, whole or part, is a what he would have added in those and reward a president who started violation of federal law without and other more populous states that doing what he said he would to create permission from the publisher. he did win like Texas and Florida. But jobs even before day one. this isn’t the best way to conduct our The new voters, the Trump national election and this is why we loyalists, are folks we met on the have the Electoral College. road, that I’ve talked and written Secondly, the far left about from all around the state, and has taken over the Democrat Party they are everywhere throughout the because a new type of leadership has country. These are folks like Jerrald not emerged. Democrats that may Hawkins, who mowed the names have filled the void are now paralyzed TRUMP and PENCE into his lawn in by the media coverage given to the Cicero. And Gene Huber, who caught Page 3 President Trump’s attention when being interviewed for about significant change at a pace Washington has never being first in line for last Saturday’s Florida rally. I loved before witnessed. seeing Mr. Huber invited up on stage by the president to When the Russian story came up again last week, thank him and give him a moment in the spotlight. the national media again piled on and Democrats on Capi- The media doesn’t realize what these people tol Hill started calling for impeachment. Their true colors mean, or that most Americans are able to see through showed through brightly to the American public, while we their bias. When the media mistakes protection of our also saw a president directly take on the media bias while borders for discrimination, they only draw attention to the fixing problems and also rallying his supporters. president’s actions to protect us from attack, drugs and In short, the efforts of the angry 90% of the gangs. The more the media dwells on the tweets or the national media and the angry radical far left that are tak- personality of the president while he is working hard on ing over the Democrat Party will all backfire over the next multiple fronts, the more people will recognize and ap- two and four years. It’s already started. They are letting plaud his results. the wrong type of emotions lead them. Anger and hatred As the national media looks at every turn for will lead only further into an abyss and to the demise of controversy, the more Americans are reminded that this the Democrat Party as we have known it at the national has been going on for two years now while this president level. v continues to stand strong to make America great again. It would be different if he was starting slow from the gate, Samuel is president of Samuel Solutions and was but Americans realize that he is working hard to bring vice chairman of the Trump Indiana campaign. tential “gay president.” He is a Rhodes Scholar and in 2014 Buttigieg, from page 1 he served in the Afghanistan war theater as an intelligence through their private responses to a survey circulated over officer with the U.S. Naval Reserve. the past week or from public endorsements. Out of those In the age of Trump, Buttigieg has spent the last who responded to The Hill survey, Ellison leads with 105 month trading shots with the president, while attempting supporters to Perez’s 57. The remaining major candidates to wake up his moribund party with a vastly different re- have less than a dozen supporters each, while more than sume than the current field or any of his predecessors. He 50 DNC members remain undecided. has positioned himself as building the Democratic Party up Politico reports today that many DNC members from the roots after Trump ramrodded through the “blue expect multiple ballots, adding: While he trailed far behind wall” upper Midwestern states by appealing to union mem- Ellison and Perez in the survey, Buttigieg has gotten trac- bers, Reagan Democrats and a waning middle class. In his tion recently in his own bid for the chairmanship. own state, Buttigieg’s Democrats have essentially receded The shock and awe of Trump’s stunning upset to Lake, Porter, St.
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