Article snippet: PROVINCETOWN — With supporters sporting handheld paper fans, signs, and shirts reading “Pete Town,” Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg made his presidential pitch to locals and out-of-town visitors at a town hall event Friday afternoon. Hundreds of people attended the event held at Provincetown Town Hall. Buttigieg — one of the top-polling candidates in the crowded 2020 Democratic presidential primary — fielded questions from audience members that focused on issues like climate change, improving the lives of LGBTQ individuals, and attacking President Donald Trump’s administration at the event in the Cape Cod fishing and vacation town that has long been a haven for the LGBTQ community. Without naming the president once, Buttigieg took the opportunity Friday to argue that those opposed to the Trump administration are “probably underreacting” to the seriousness of the moment and its potential for changing the course of the country. “What it all adds up to is that it will fall to us, all of us who are alive and making decisions in this moment in American history, to decide what the rest of our lifetimes will look like,” Buttigieg said. “To decide in the next three or four years, what the next 30 or 40 are going to hold.” Buttigieg’s husband, Chasten Buttigieg, introduced the candidate and said Provincetown was “not a bad place to celebrate Friday night.” Perhaps the loudest applause of the night came after a question from the audience about how to bala... Link to the full article to read more