民主党总统候选人南本德，印第安纳州市长皮特·巴蒂吉格回答抗议者举着批评他的横幅，其中一条促使他说“那真的很卑鄙”
但迪吉格周五出现在爱荷华州格林内尔学院的市政厅活动中，该活动有时会引起学生和与会者对他的“支持企业”运动的质疑。
这位候选人欢迎就医疗保健、常识枪支法以及千禧一代和其他年轻人如何成为“渴望变革的一代”等政策进行的“坦诚”对话，主持人是波威希克县民主党人约翰·格伦南。
"你想继续做这件事吗？"但是迪吉格在周五活动结束时说，鼓励分散的抗议者展开他们自制的横幅攻击他。“也许要传下去一点，这样我们才能看到。我还是不明白。”
但是我开始在一个横幅上拼单词。“‘你会……’“不，我不会。”你会杀了我们吗？这真的很卑鄙，”他说。
“华尔街皮特，”布蒂盖格说，打出另一面旗帜。“我记得他们对奥巴马说了同样的话，然后他成立了CFPB·[消费者金融保护局]并让伊丽莎白·沃伦负责此事，出台了华尔街有史以来最严厉的法规，”他回答道，赢得了不太挑剔的观众的欢呼。
观众先前提出的几个问题公开批评了巴蒂吉，指责他“攻击”2020年民主党候选人参议员伯尼·桑德斯和伊丽莎白·沃伦。但是巴蒂吉谴责了这种说法，甚至联系了一些温和的共和党人。“如果你恨一个国家一半的人，你就不能爱这个国家，”他说。
尽管一再发誓要遏制气候变化、“枪支暴力流行病”和改善美国中产阶级的经济，但巴蒂吉格还是被进步活动分子的迹象作为目标，这些迹象抱怨说，“支持企业的资金等于气候混乱”和“没有新的开始”
上周，沃伦批评巴蒂吉举办私人企业筹资活动，而她的竞选团队一再拒绝接受来自类似高价企业活动的资金。“我认为皮特市长应该打开门，这样任何人都可以进来报告正在说的话。沃伦告诉记者:“这些门不应该关上，也不应该让任何人去想，他们是在向那些出钱待在房间里的人许下什么样的承诺。”纽约时报。
但迪吉格一再强调，特朗普下台后的一天将是美国最困难的一天。“我们将会更加分裂，因为战斗和被政治撕裂而更加疲惫不堪...让我们走到这一步的危机仍将存在。”
他还宣布对美国医药和医疗保健系统进行大规模改革:“如果没有医疗保健，你就不能自由。”
这不是第一个与会者公开批评2020年民主党候选人的巴特格市政厅。在印第安纳州南本德的一名非洲裔美国人被枪杀后，但是吉吉受到了批评因为在他短暂停止竞选以解决这一事件时显得“不知所措”。
PETE BUTTIGIEG SAYS 'THAT'S REALLY MEAN' IN RESPONSE TO PROTESTERS' BANNER AT IOWA EVENT
Democratic presidential candidate South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg responded to protesters holding up banners critical of him, one of which prompted him to say "that's really mean."
Buttigieg appeared at a town hall event at Grinnell College in Iowa Friday, which at times drew questions from students and attendees critical of his "pro-corporate" campaign.
The candidate welcomed the "candid" conversations about policies ranging from health care, "common sense gun laws" and how millennials and other young people are a "generation impatient for change," as host John Grennan of the Poweshiek County Democrats prefaced the event.
"Do you want to go ahead and do the thing?" Buttigieg said at the end of the Friday event, encouraging the scattered protesters to unfurl their homemade banners attacking him. "Might want to pass it down a little bit so we can see. I still can't make it out."
Buttigieg began piecing the words together on one of the banners. "'You will...' No I won't. 'You will kill us?' That's really mean," he said.
"Wall Street Pete," Buttigeig said, making out another banner. "I remember when they said the same thing about Obama and then he set up the CFPB [Consumer Financial Protection Bureau] and put Elizabeth Warren in charge of it and delivered some of the toughest regulations on Wall Street ever," he replied, eliciting cheers from the less-critical audience members.
Several prior questions questions from the audience openly criticized Buttigieg and accused him of "attacking" fellow 2020 Democratic candidates Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. But Buttigieg rebuked that claim and even reached out to some moderate Republicans. "You cannot love a country if you hate half of the people in it," he said.
Despite repeatedly vowing to curb climate change, the "gun violence epidemic" and to improve the economy for middle-class Americans, Buttigieg was targeted by progressive activist signs that complained, "Pro-corporate funding equals climate chaos" and "No Fresh Start."
Last week, Warren criticized Buttigieg for holding private corporate fundraisers while her campaign has repeatedly refused to accept money from similar high-priced corporate events. "I think that Mayor Pete should open up the doors so that anyone can come in and report on what's being said. Those doors shouldn't be closed, and no one should be left to wonder what kind of promises are being made to the people that then pony up big bucks to be in the room," Warren told The New York Times.
Buttigieg repeatedly stressed that the day after Trump is ousted from office will be one of the nation's most difficult. "We will be even more divided, even more exhausted from fighting and being torn up by politics...the crises that brought us to this point will still be there."
He also declared massive overhaul to the U.S. medicine and health care systems: "You're not free if you don't have health care."
This was not the first Buttigeg townhall in which attendees were outright critical of the 2020 Democratic candidate. After the shooting of an African-American in his hometown of South Bend, Indiana, Buttigieg was criticized for appearing "overwhelmed" as he briefly stopped campaigning in order to address the incident.
