Buttigieg Won’t Skip First Presidential Debate

Mayor Pete Buttigieg told MSNBC that he will not skip the first Democratic presidential debate tomorrow despite the ongoing crisis around a police shooting in South Bend, Indiana because “we have to be able to do many things at once.”

He added: “These things express themselves in so many different ways. And what I found on that stage at that town hall was, it was my job to absorb all of that pain, absorb all of that anguish, knowing that I could talk about all of the things we’ve done, but clearly we haven’t done enough. And accepting responsibility for that because I’m in charge.”