PoliticsButtigieg defends experience: 'Anybody of any age can do a good job'

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Pete Buttigieg on Friday defended his experience against other Democratic presidential rivals as the South Bend, Ind., mayor seeks to garner more support in the primary race.

"I think anybody of any age can do a good job. Obviously I'm enthusiastic about the generational energy that's out there, but it only makes sense if it's connected to a vision," Buttigieg said on ABC's "The View."

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"I'm not asking for your vote," Buttigieg said. "I will promise that there will be a review to make sure that there is no racism on this department and that it will be independent"

Despite his age , Buttigieg tells Here & Now’s Jeremy Hobson that his wealth of executive experience is one of “But I actually think the more we can get Washington to start looking like our best -run cities and towns In addition to his age , Buttigieg would be the first openly-gay president if he were elected.

Pete Buttigieg (BOO’-tuh-juhj) is defending his experience ahead of an expected run for president, saying he isn’t someone who has “been The Democratic field is full of senators and members of the House. Buttigieg says “being a mayor of a city of any size means that you have to deal with the kinds

"The case I've been laying out is that there's a vision of what our country might look like by the time I get to the current president's age, and that vision has to be rooted in the decisions we make right now," he added.

Buttigieg, 37, is one of the youngest candidates vying for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination but has seen his stock rise in polls as he crisscrosses the country campaigning in the early months of the primary race.

The Midwest mayor appeared alongside former Vice President Joe Biden, 76, and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), 77, in Thursday night's Democratic presidential primary debate. During one exchange, Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), 38, urged Biden to "pass the torch" to the younger generation.

"I thought Pete Buttigieg looked real young last night, and real green," Meghan McCain, a co-host on "The View," remarked on Friday's episode.

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Pete Buttigieg , the Democratic mayor of South Bend, Ind., said on Sunday that he understands "But frankly, it's a leap for anybody , anybody who arrives behind that desk," Buttigieg added on "And yet, all of the people who have had that job have been mortals who just bring their experience to the

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- The View (@TheView) June 28, 2019

Buttigieg maintained that he would combine his youthful perspective with the expertise of older politicians should he be elected president.

"It's not that I don't understand the way things work and the way things have worked for years, it's that I don't accept it, and I think sometimes coming in with more of an outside perspective is a real asset, especially when the system itself is so broken and in need of being deeply, deeply reformed and redesigned," Buttigieg said Friday on ABC.

Mayor @PeteButtigieg: "I learned right away as a very young mayor ... sometimes you need to lean on the expertise of people who have been doing work for longer than you have been alive, but you also can't be afraid to bring a totally new perspective." https://t.co/ggTzZ6aWgepic.twitter.com/rr7oNnpF63

- The View (@TheView) June 28, 2019

"One of the things I learned right away as a very young mayor is that sometimes you need to lean on the expertise of people who have been doing work for longer than you've been alive, but you also can't be afraid to bring a totally new perspective, which is what I think leaders from a new generation can do uniquely," he said.