SPECIAL EDITION: On the ground in Iowa

In which Pete Buttigieg tries to woo Republicans.

Feb 01, 2020

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By Adam Wren and design by Kris Davidson

Days until the Iowa caucuses: 2

OELWEIN, Iowa—Here inside the Coliseum, a little old music hall that Willie Nelson once played, a man had a question for Pete Buttigieg. Less of a question, really, and more of a self-disclosure: He was a “lifelong Republican.”

Buttigieg dialed in. “I’m not going to pretend I’m proba…

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