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Hello from Waterloo, IA, where South Bend Mayor and presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg is participating in a walking tour of downtown Waterloo. 
Waterloo Mayor Quentin Hart is showing South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg around downtown Waterloo
Pete Buttigieg tells Waterloo, Iowa Mayor Quentin Hart his city is hosting a “know your rights” event today because “people are freaked out about these ICE raids.”
Pete Buttigieg tells Waterloo, IA Mayor Quentin Hart his campaign is in the process of expanding: “The nice thing about the fundraising going so well is we can build the kind of team we want.”
Waterloo Mayor Quentin Hart tells Pete Buttigieg they’re in the first county in Iowa to deploy police body cameras— Buttigieg asks Hart, Waterloo’s first Black Mayor, “How’s recruiting? I find it hard to just get people to apply, diverse people, really any, it’s just tough.”
Hart tells Pete Buttigieg since he’s been elected mayor of Waterloo, they’ve hired two or three new black police officers, and had some success with the fire department as well.
Jim Walsh of Waterloo tells Buttigieg he has an open tab if the mayor wants a beer, which he politely declines. Walsh jokes, “Has the mayor been giving you a hard time?”
BUTTIGIEG: The mayor’s been giving me the grand tour!
WALSH: You’re lucky you don’t have to park your car!
BUTTIGIEG: The mayor’s been giving me the grand tour!
WALSH: You’re lucky you don’t have to park your car!
Re: yesterday's deleted New Republic article, Buttigieg tells @ajjaffe, "I appreciate it that the article was taken down, I don’t think it really reflects The New Republic that I know," and he was more disturbed by reports from Pence's visit to the border.
Pete Buttigieg takes the stage at Zach Wahls' birthday, says "it must be heady to have this many people, including presidential candidates, singing Happy Birthday to you," jokes, "It's not often I get to say this to an elected official... young man, keep your feet on the ground"
At 28, Zach Wahls is one of the few elected officials younger than Pete Buttigieg, 37:
Speaking at Zach Wahls' birthday, Mayor Pete Buttigieg hits Trump and the GOP for ICE raids, saying, "as we speak, this president is mobilizing federal agents to tear families apart in American cities. Don't tell me that they’re the party of faith, or of family, or of freedom."
Colorado Senator and presidential hopeful Michael Bennet has taken the stage at Zach Wahls' birthday brunch, jokes, "Zach, I’m going to be honest, today reminds me of my 28th birthday party, except you actually had people at your party.
At Wahls' birthday brunch, Michael Bennet says, "Donald Trump is a symptom of a problem in Washington, he is not the essential cause... it is the tyranny of the so-called Freedom Caucus & Mitch McConnell that we have to overcome," praising Reps Finkenauer, Axne for flipping seats
