Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast. This is an election year. Will Donald Trump be

re-elected? What is going on with the Democrats? And has America gone even more crazy? We'll be

discussing all of these things and more, more than once a week, because we don't

feel you have enough Americano in your life. And I have a special offer for Americano listeners.

If you want to subscribe to the Spectator's US edition, which is brilliant, by the way, I edit it,

you can go to www.spictator., forward slash, subscribe and take advantage of our special

Americano offer. If you insert the code Americano in capital letters like Donald Trump on Twitter,

you will get 5% off. Please do so. I'm joined today by John Levine, and he is a reporter on the Democratic race and the 2020

election for the New York Post and we're going to be talking about the end of Pete Buttigieg's

campaign. Now John, yesterday we had this news that Pete Buttigieg was stopping his campaign.

I suppose it's not that much of a

surprise that he's not going to be the Democratic nominee. However, it is surprising quite a few

people that he was the first of the major candidates, if you like, to drop out. Were you surprised?

I was. I mean, I was certainly not. First of all, it's good to be here, Freddie. Thank you for having me.

Well, thank you for coming on.

I was surprised. If you look at sort of who has a right to stay in

and who really should be considering dropping out,

he would not have been first on my list for who should go.

I mean, he pretty much fought Sanders to a draw in Iowa.

And then he had respectable showings,

he had a very respectable showing in New Hampshire.

He narrowly lost New Hampshire.

...