Pete Buttigieg, From ‘The Daily Show’ to Fox News, Is Kamala Harris’ Made-for-TV Surrogate
variety.comDaniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic Much of Pete Buttigieg’s interview with Jon Stewart on “The Daily Show” Monday night was consumed with Stewart’s speculation that Buttigieg is being vetted as a potential vice-presidential candidate.
Buttigieg did not deny the notion, but parried by saying that, generally, being vetted for a political post is like being vetted to become a parent through adoption, as he and his husband had.
It was yet another example of the very particular skill Buttigieg has; more than any of his peers, he’s effectively a made-for-TV politician.
This isn’t to say he’s, necessarily, callow or slick, though he certainly has a preternatural smoothness. He simply has the debater’s skill of speaking in an unbroken and unbreakable rhythm, thereby allowing the terms of the conversation to shift to whatever is on his mind.
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