As California’s newly early Super Tuesday primary looms on March 3, Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg held three public events in the past week in California — and returned on Thursday, Feb. 20, to Los Angeles, where he’s been a familiar face since his campaign began.
Buttigieg has done well with fund-raising here; he’s regularly held events in Hollywood and has gathered nearly $10 million from California donors, more than from any other state. His challenge is to translate that support to votes, experts say.
On the heels of Wednesday’s fierce Democratic debate in Las Vegas, Buttigieg spent Thursday at a televised town hall at USC, an event sponsored by KTTV, Channel 11. Fox-11 anchor Elex Michaelson hosted the event at Brovard Auditorium, filled with students eager to see the former mayor of South Bend, Ind., who fared well in initial campaign skirmishes in Iowa and New Hampshire.
