The first openly gay presidential candidate has attracted an equally pioneering press corps
fire last January from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and others when it announced a slate of embeds that included no black journalists.)
“When you’re traveling as much as an embed is, the goal is to hear not just what the candidate is saying there, but what the voters are hearing,” Judd, who grew up in Manhattan, told me over grilled salmon on a bed of rice at the hip downtown Des Moines spot, St. Kilda Surf & Turf. “I’m always curious to see what a gay voter in some of these places that aren’t these gay Meccas is talking about.
Last April, at campaign stops in Des Moines and Fort Dodge and Marshalltown, Buttigieg found himself trailed by far-right protests organized by Randall Terry, the anti-abortion activist. Terry would show up with a few fellow protestors, and shout at Buttigieg and voters to “Remember Sodom and Gomorrah.” “The condition of my soul is in the hands of God, but the Iowa caucuses are up to you,” Buttigieg responded in Des Moines.
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