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Pete Buttigieg Ad Offers Up Date With Husband For Donations
The ad, currently running on Twitter has backfired spectacularly as even democrats deem it “weird” and “bizarre.”
These “Chip in!” campaigns are starting to wear on even the most dedicated democrats. Elizabeth Warren ran an ad urging supporters to join her “For a beer (or Tea!)” in exchange for a small donation but the youngest candidate running for president offered his donors a very different potential reward for participating in his campaign: A night at the theater with his own husband.
It’s an unusual choice that has been met with the typical social media trolling but also a great deal of awkward responses that range from the famous gif:
To the less sarcastic and more comedic response:
And…