Mayor Pete's Town Hall is pretty rough so far.

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47. Unfortunately this new tragedy is probably going to do him in. Perception is everything in politics,

and fair or not, it is not a good look. If Pete can handle this, he truly can handle most anything so far. We still need to see how it all plays out. All I can do as a poster is try to add truth and context. I think he should have resigned as mayor before running, not to cover anything up, as there is nothing to cover up, but in order to concentrated on his campaign.

Being a mayor of city is fairly unique as the that person is going to be held to blame for anything that goes pear shaped inside their jurisdiction, unlike a Representative or a Senator or even a Governor (unless any of those can be directly tied to a scandal where in they did something wrong personally.) South Bend is large enough to have the potential for a lot of serious problems, but is not so huge (like say LA or NYC) where the sheer size can somewhat insulate (unless, again, the mayor is directly involved in some illegal action.)

If Pete doesn't have large, multiple break-out moments at the debates, his best chance to continue in politics is probably going to be at cabinet level (or something similar.) Indiana is far too red now for him to win statewide office, unless he got incredibly lucky like the since-defeated Donnelly did in 2012 and drew a self-destructing RWNJ in a Senate race or Governor. Post Trump, even that might not work. His Congressional district is also gerrymandered now to hard RW, Trump at over plus 20, so is out of luck there, probably.