Buttigieg Reacts to Iowa Voter Who Pulled Support After Learning He’s Gay: ‘It Will Happen’

Pete Buttigieg responded Wednesday to the viral video of an extremely low-information Iowa voter who rescinded her support for his presidential campaign after learning he’s gay.

“How real is that? How big of an issue is that for you?” MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle asked Buttigieg during an interview that aired Thursday.

“It will happen,” Buttigieg responded, adding that he just saw the video Wednesday.

“First of all, I felt proud of our organizer … who on my behalf was speaking to her, and speaking to her with respect, living out the values that this campaign has been asking our volunteers and organizers to live by the whole time, and trying to reach out in the name of compassion to that woman’s heart,” Buttigieg said, referring to precinct captain Nikki van den Heever. “I’m sad to see that it doesn’t seem that she reached her, but [I] also think that is part of what change looks like — deep, real change — is looking people eye to eye and engaging them with compassion.

“If someone like me in Indiana, while Mike Pence was governor, could come out and get re-elected with 80 percent of the vote, then anywhere in America, I believe, can move past old prejudices, especially when the election, at the end of the day, is not about me or about this president, it’s about the voters questions of how their lives will be shaped by the choice they’re about to make,” he added.

Buttigieg also addressed the incident during an appearance Thursday on The View:

“What I want her to know is that….

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