KING: Mayor Pete Buttigieg moving up in the Democratic race for president, offering himself as a next generation face. That's the same lane Beto O'Rourke wants to carve out in this crowded Democratic field. There's no doubt Buttigieg's boomlet is at the moment at least an obstacle to the former Texas congressman's path. Both are under 50, both are charismatic, both are highly quotable. In these early months of campaigning have shown both men can appeal to the same types of both voters. You wrote a piece to this, Mr. Martin.</s>MARTIN: Yes, sir.</s>KING: Now --</s>MARTIN: Nytimes.com available, all your audience, check it out.</s>KING: That's very good. We don't know how long the Buttigieg boomlet last. You know, sometimes, it is just candidates and their moments but there's no question that Beto had this big launch, he got a lot of attention and then.</s>MARTIN: And then enter the young, charismatic mayor of South Bend, Indiana who, by the way, has more individual donors than every U.S. senator combined in the first quarter. That just shows you how politics is so impossible to predict. Who would have guessed that in January? Look, they come from a sort of a similar background in terms of their age, obviously their gender and their race, but also in terms of the sort of not ideological branding. They want kind of a better politics and a better country. This is not a new song in Democratic races, John. As you know, there's typically a candidate who was kind of like this who is not terribly ideological who wants to make a better politics and create a better country. You know, Gary Hart, for example, comes to mind. Bill Bradley a little bit although in a more of a reformer</s>KING: It's a great piece, you say NY Times style.</s>MARTIN: Nytimes.com from the granite state.
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