LAS VEGAS (AP) — Pete Buttigieg says he’d use the “symbolic powers of the presidency” to call out and reject anti-Semitism, saying it's urgent to confront white supremacy.

Buttigieg said at a Las Vegas town hall Tuesday that white supremacy has come closer than any foreign nation or terrorist group to destroying the United States.

He says Donald Trump’s presidency has seen the rise of bigotry that has been simmering beneath the surface.

And he criticized Trump's response to deadly violence by white nationalists in Charlottesville, Virginia, when Trump said there are “very fine people on both sides.” Buttigieg says, “I think we might live to see which side wins."