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major turnout for @PeteButtigieg's meet & greet in exeter, NH tonight. i'd guess a few hundred people at least won't get in - the line is down the block. (and there's a merch table!!) #fitn #nhpolitics 
fwiw, i've covered buttigieg, harris, inslee and gillibrand in #nhpolitics so far. pete definitely gets the most insta-clicks #onhere. (harris got a fair few too, but that was a few months ago.) the sign of a well-oiled social media machine, a focus from bots, both...? #fitn
a group of juniors from phillips exeter academy, down the street, got pulled from line to stand behind @PeteButtigieg on stage. they'll be able to vote in 2020; top issues are climate change, women's rights & stabilizing democratic institutions (!). #nhpolitics #fitn
maybe a hundred people left outside & 400 packed inside exeter town hall. @PeteButtigieg promised the overflow folks he'd be back even when it's not as nice out as tonight. #nhpolitics #fitn
.@PeteButtigieg talks up abortion rights, the LGBTQ right to adopt & black women's maternal mortality crisis during the "freedom" chunk of his stump speech. the other 2 are security & democracy - all things he says he wants to reclaim from the GOP. #nhpolitics
oh my god he made a "can't take it for *granite*" joke boooo #NHPolitics
this @PeteButtigieg speech started out roughly the same as in manchester a while back, but now deviating a bit - jokes & references tailored more to NH, focus more on @realDonaldTrump. and climate change got a mention in his "security" issues section. #nhpolitics
first audience Q is on climate change. @PeteButtigieg gets specific: renew EPA's ability to regulate carbon as a pollutant, rejoin paris accords, quadruple investment in clean energy to >$20B/yr, & carbon tax w/ rebates. #NHPolitics
.@PeteButtigieg says it's embarrassing congress can't pass universal background checks for gun sales. NH legislators passed a bill on that just yesterday: nhpr.org/post/nh-senate… #NHPolitics
asked "why you?" @PeteButtigieg says: i'd make a great president & i'm going to win, to big cheers. notes his home state of indiana only ever went democratic for obama - the opposite of establishment at the time - and pete says that's him now. #NHPolitics #fitn
