While Mayor Pete Buttigieg is Campaigning for President, South Bend is Suffering from an “Uptick in Violence”

A local South Bend TV anchor opened an interview with Mayor Pete Buttigieg by highlighting the increasing violence in the city.

In late April, Joshua Short of WNDU News noted that “people are expecting more of a presence than just a response.” He also noted that a community member impacted by gun violence was looking for “maybe more of action than writing.”

The Atlantic recently covered the Buttigieg on the trail and highlighted the reality of Buttigieg not being in South Bend to do his day-to-day job as Mayor.

“But he hasn’t done much of that lately. “It depends on the day,” Buttigieg told me a few weeks ago, when I asked him in the middle of another nonstop campaign swing how much time he was spending each day being mayor.

“Becoming an overnight sensation means Buttigieg spends most days of every week on the campaign trail, bouncing between rallies in Iowa and New Hampshire, fundraising in California, squeezing in national TV appearances in New York, skipping down to South Carolina, flying back to California for more events and more TV, with a stop or two in D.C. and campaign planning along the way.”

ICYMI: Indiana News Anchor: South Bend Faces ‘Uptick in Violence’ as Buttigieg Runs for President
by Cameron Cawthorne

Morning news anchor Tricia Sloma reported early Sunday that South Bend is facing an “uptick in violence” as the city’s mayor Pete Buttigieg runs for president.

In a clip first flagged by America Rising, Sloma, a co-anchor of WNDU-TV’s Emmy-nominated 16 Morning News reported there have been four shootings in South Bend over the last month.

“There’s been an uptick in violence in South Bend. In fact, four shootings in the city in less than a month,” Sloma said before interviewing Buttigieg. “That’s not exactly the chamber of commerce headline you’d like to share if you’re running for president, but it’s what Mayor Pete Buttigieg faces as he continues to shine in the national spotlight.”

After discussing multiple policy issues with Buttigieg, Sloma pressed Buttigieg on the increase in violence on his watch.

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