Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind., on Monday hailed Barack Obama’s legacy after a journalist acknowledged misquoting the
Democratic White House contender as making a statement critical of the former president’s time in office.
Evan Halper of the
Los Angeles Times tweeted Monday morning that a line in his Sunday story on Buttigieg’s campaign, in which the candidate referred to the “failures of the Obama era,” was erroneously reported.
Buttigieg replied to Halper’s messages less than an hour later, tweeting that he appreciated “this reporter’s swift and honest correction of a misquote on my views of” the Obama presidency.