Article snippet: Pete Buttigieg was fielding questions from a swarm of reporters about charter schools, what it’s like to run as a gay candidate, and Joe Biden’s behavior with women when he finally stumbled through an answer. After a few exchanges with one of his questioners, he gave up, his linguistic abilities exhausted. “Sorry,” the South Bend, Ind., mayor said to a reporter questioning him in a foreign language. “I’m out of Italian.” Buttigieg, the 37-year-old polyglot — he is conversational or fluent in seven languages — took his unlikely quest for the Democratic presidential nomination to Northeastern University on Wednesday. Speaking to an audience of more than 1,100, he positioned himself as the voice of a younger generation and urged his youthful audience to get involved. “The reason they don’t respond to the policy preferences of young people is because they’re not afraid of young people,” he said of other political leaders. “They will be if you fire them.” Barely a blip a few months ago, Buttigieg has surged into the Democratic Party’s consciousness in recent weeks, following a widely praised appearance at a CNN town hall. He reported raising $7 million in the first quarter of the year and has drawn waves of national exposure in a field with better-known names like Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Beto O’Rourke, and Kamala Harris. College students on 10 Massachusetts campuses have begun organizing under the local chapter of Students For Pete, according to Matt O’Brien... Link to the full article to read more