Pete Buttigieg lines up some Hoosier support. Does he have a chance in presidential run?

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INDIANAPOLIS — It took nine months after South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg kicked off his long-shot Democratic presidential campaign before he landed his first spate of Indiana endorsements.

Ten Hoosier mayors — Tom McDermott of Hammond, Dave Kitchell of Logansport, Brent Bascom of Rising Sun, Gay Ann Harney of Rockport, Ron Meer of Michigan City, John Hamilton of Bloomington, Gabriel Greer of Peru, Greg Goodnight of Kokomo, Ted Ellis of Bluffton and Hugh Wirth of Oakland City — were part of a group of more than 50 mayors to endorse this upstart presidential campaign.

Beyond his fellow mayors, Buttigieg hasn’t picked up much support from the Democratic Indiana political establishment. U.S. Reps. Pete Visclosky and André Carson aren’t on board, nor is former senator Joe Donnelly, who attended Buttigieg’s campaign kickoff last April. Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett was also there, but he didn’t endorse this past week, presumably concentrating on his own re-election bid.

We are now about five months before the Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary and so, you may ask, does Mayor Pete have a snowball’s chance in a Nelson’s Golden Glow fire pit to actually win the nomination?

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With over four months remaining until the Iowa caucus, I am not counting Buttigieg out. A lot can happen during that period of time.

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1. I want them to do well, to

Find their footing. I think it will strengthen the party and its unity going into the general.