Micheal J. Fox brings some star power to Pete Buttigieg’s final Las Vegas rally – asking crowd why Bernie’s always yelling and comparing the young mayor to Barack Obama
- Actor Michael J. Fox was back on the campaign on behalf of Pete Buttigieg on the eve of the Nevada caucuses in Las Vegas Friday
- Fox warmed up Buttigieg’s crowd of 1,172 people comparing how he felt about Buttigieg to Barack Obama, knowing he had met the next president in 2006
- ‘Read my lips. This guy’s going to be the next president of the United States,’ the ‘Back to the Future’ star said of Buttigieg, a 38-year-old ex-mayor
- Fox called Buttigieg ‘magical,’ contrasting his calm and thoughtful demeanor with that of Bernie Sanders: ‘Bernie, why are you yelling at me?’ Fox said
Actor Michael J. Fox warmed up a crowd of Pete Buttigieg supporters at a middle school in Las Vegas Friday night, saying that when he met the 38-year-old gay war veteran he felt the same way he did when he met Barack Obama in 2006.
‘Read my lips,’ the ‘Back to the Future’ star said. ‘This guy’s going to be the next president of the United States.’
Fox described Buttigieg as ‘magical,’ contrasting his calm, thoughtful demeanor to that of Bernie Sanders, currently the Democrat to beat. ‘Bernie why are you yelling at me?’ Fox asked, earning laughs from the crowd.
Actor Michael J. Fox returned to the campaign trail Friday night to introduce Pete Buttigieg who he also had stumped for in New Hampshire
Michael J. Fox (right) played opener for Pete Buttigieg (left) on the eve of the Nevada caucuses, where the 38-year-old ex-mayor will be tested to see if he can win in a more diverse state after strong showings in Iowa and New Hampshire
The actor recalled being in Chicago for an event on stem cells in 2006 and meeting a man outside the venue, smoking a cigarette.
‘And it was Barack Obama,’ Fox said, explaining that they had a great discussion on medical research.
Fox has Parkinson’s Disease and his Michael J. Fox Foundation is dedicated to finding a cure.
‘I called my wife and said, I just met the next president of the United States,’ he said of Obama.
Fox felt the same way about Buttigieg.
The actor already trekked to New Hampshire to stump for the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana.
The Las Vegas event Friday night was Buttigieg’s last of the day before Saturday’s Nevada caucuses. It attracted 1,172 according to the school’s principal, via the Buttigieg campaign.
Buttigieg won the Iowa caucuses by the traditional metric – earning the highest percentage of delegates. He then came in a close second to Bernie Sanders in New Hampshire.
Pete Buttigieg has been campaign in Nevada this week in the run-up to this Saturday’s Nevada caucuses, the ex-mayor’s first test before a more colorful electorate
But while Joe Biden has said he’ll improve standings when more diverse states start to vote, the question for Buttigieg is if he’ll maintain his performance when the electorate is less white.
The final two Nevada polls that dropped Friday, on the eve of the Saturday caucuses, show Buttigieg in second and third place, with Sanders in a comfortable lead
The Emerson University poll shows 30 per cent of likely Democratic primary voters supporting Sanders, 17 per cent liking Buttigieg, 16 per cent behind Biden and 12 per cent for Warren.
Data for Progress data shows Sanders with 32 per cent support in the state, followed by Warren with 17 per cent, Buttigieg with 15 per cent and Biden with 14 per cent.
Democrats are hoping that Nevada’s caucuses go off without a hitch after an app glitch led to chaos in Iowa at the beginning of the month, with Sanders’ campaign still challenging the count that saw Buttigieg win by a tiny fraction.