Pete Buttigieg desperately wants to claim second place in the Nevada caucuses in order to be the non-communist alternative to Bolshie Bernie, as the party gets the vapors over the possibility of disaster with Sanders dragging down the entire ticket in November. Pete Buttigieg's campaign is claiming there are inconsistencies in the reported results in Nevada, as the former South Bend, Ind., mayor tries to claw his way to second place in Saturday's caucuses. In a letter sent to Nevada Democratic Party Chairman William McCurdy II and obtained by POLITICO, Buttigieg's campaign is calling for the state party to publicly release a tranche of data and recalculate some precincts, a call the state party largely rebuffed. I love the term being employed: "material irregularities." Pete Buttigieg's campaign sent a letter to the Nevada State Democratic Party on Sunday, alleging that there are "material irregularities...(Read Full Post)