2020 candidate Pete Buttigieg raised a few eyebrows after this confusing answer to a question on vaccinations:
We asked all of the 2020 candidates about vaccines.
A spokesperson for Mayor Pete Buttigieg says Buttigieg supports "personal/religious exemptions if states can maintain local herd immunity and there is no public health crisis” https://t.co/o1tVmFb5UW pic.twitter.com/ahWJq0hkhL
— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) May 1, 2019
Um, what?
I’m confused by #Buttigieg’s comments re: exemptions for vaccinations. What am I missing?
— deray (@deray) May 1, 2019
This did not go over very well:
.@PeteButtigieg is taking money from @GwynethPaltrow, a modern-day female snake-oil saleswoman who literally endangers lives and promotes dangerous anti-vaxx theories. Now, amidst an OUTBREAK Buttigieg suggests he supports exemptions for vaccines. I. Can't.
— Jodi Jacobson (@jljacobson) May 1, 2019
What good are vaccinations after the health crisis starts?
Someone should really tell Pete Buttigieg that vaccines aren’t implemented *after* a “public health crisis.”
They’re kind of a thing because they’re supposed to stop them… https://t.co/TWxJJqYhgU
— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) May 1, 2019
The campaign eventually issued a “clarifying statement”:
NEW: Buttigieg campaign says in “clarifying statement" he "believes only medical exemptions should be allowed” to vaccinations after previously telling us he supported "personal/religious exemptions" https://t.co/Sx8ZPTbVKz
— Jon Passantino (@passantino) May 1, 2019
More like a “wholesale reversal”:
So… this is not a "clarifying statement," it is a wholesale reversal of what he said before. It's a better position, which is great! But it's also ok for candidates to say, "I don't know enough about this issue to comment off the cuff, but I will get back to you." https://t.co/P7UBmL022p
— Jill Filipovic (@JillFilipovic) May 1, 2019
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