Buttigieg Senior Adviser Says Candidate Has Obama's 'It' Thing

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A senior adviser to Pete Buttigieg put the former mayor in the same league as Barack Obama as a pure politician and even better at some parts of being a candidate.

“There are few people in politics it’s pretty dangerous to compare yourself to. Barack Obama is one of them. You don’t compare yourself to John F. Kennedy either but I don’t think it’s wrong to say that Pete brings a talent and that ineffable ‘it’ thing that Obama had,” senior adviser Lis Smith said Saturday.

Speaking at a Bloomberg News reporters roundtable in Des Moines Saturday, Smith, a veteran of Obama’s re-election campaign in 2012, said that Buttigieg has “completely different talents,” especially that he doesn’t mind doing media interviews.

The comparison to Obama, and obliquely JFK, was a bold comparison as many Democrats would say Obama was one of the best politicians the modern-day party has produced, along with Bill Clinton.

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