Exclusive: Inside Buttigieg's Delegate Wrangling Operation

“You never want to go out on a dance floor and ask a girl for a dance if you haven’t introduced yourself previously,” Bob Mulholland, the longtime-DNC member from California, said.

NEW FROM ME IN THE DAILY BEAST: “Pete Buttigieg’s presidential campaign is taking proactive steps for the possibility of a contested convention, including an aggressive effort to court Democratic Party insiders who could cast crucial votes in such a scenario.

The South Bend mayor’s team held a conference call with a group of so-called superdelegates on M…