Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has built a surprisingly large coalition in his bid for the 2020 Democratic nomination.
But it appears rapper Lil Nas X is not on board with the “Mayor Pete” craze.
The “Old Town Road” singer recently declined to collaborate on a video with Buttigieg that would have played at a BuzzFeed event in New York, according to the Daily Beast.
Buttigieg shouldn’t be offended, however. Lil Nas X did not specifically have a problem with the mayor — he merely wants to avoid endorsing a candidate, per the Daily Beast.
Clickbait headline
Non-news
WTF is wrong with the media?
Although it does display how bizarro political campaigns have become.
TPM’s Pick-Your-Topic for our next Article:
The T-Mobile/Sprint merger was approved by DOJ (after T-Mobile execs all stayed at the Trump hotel) today.
Trump’s threatening France with tariffs.
The nominee for the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is accused of sexual assault by another officer, both were interviewed this week by Senate committees, and there’s a writeup in today’s times.
Some no-name rapper singer that precisely zero three people who read TPM have heard of had a total non-story of not wanting to appear to endorse a candidate at this point (last I checked, for an endorsement to mean anything, the endorser themselves is supposed to have some status…)…
I like his song…didn’t know his name.
Is he a rapper?
Sounds like country music
Never heard of him. Doesn’t sound like a stage name for a country singer?