Watch Buttigieg get 'chased' out of campaign stop gone bad

Pete Buttigieg (MSNBC video screenshot)

This is the kind of situation that makes campaign managers want to hide.

It was Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, who was speaking to a normally supportive crowd: workers striking for higher wages.

But watch this Time magazine video that shows him cutting his comments short and fleeing to his waiting limousine:

On YouTube, Time explained Buttigieg has been hounded by protesters during a march with McDonald's workers in Charleston, South Carolina, who are striking for a $15 minimum wage.

A Twitter posting included the lead-up to the escape:

Pete Buttigieg confronted by minimum wage, racial justice protesters at South Carolina union event https://t.co/wgTGtedRao pic.twitter.com/crr82Htmj3

— TIME (@TIME) February 24, 2020

Joe Saunders of the Western Journal reported Buttigieg was "taunted" and "chased out," and the "union event" "didn't go as planned."

Saunders observed: "The sight of a presidential contender being hustled away from a crowd of working-class voters is never good. It’s especially bad when that presidential contender is a Democrat trying to convince his fellow Democrats that he really understands the problems of the poor."

He noted the reception on Twitter was of the kind that makes "campaign managers want to stay in bed with their blankets over their heads."

One Twitter user wrote: "They ain't having Pete. He runs to his car, shielded by women. The chant: Pete can't be our president, where was 15 in South Bend?"

Another wrote, "I guess he's not getting the black McDonald worker vote."

Calling it a "public relations disaster," Saunders noted, "With Saturday’s Democratic primary in the Palmetto State fast approaching, public embarrassment isn’t going to help much."