Pete Buttigieg's senior campaign staff will meet with major donors for a series of strategy events in Iowa over the weekend, according to a schedule obtained by POLITICO.

The events are scheduled around Buttigieg’s speech at the Iowa Democratic Party’s Liberty and Justice Celebration dinner this weekend in Des Moines, where senior staff will brief Buttigieg backers at a series of dinners and strategy sessions. Buttigieg's campaign held similar donor retreats ahead of the Democratic National Committee's first presidential debate in June and the Polk County Steak Fry, an Iowa political tradition, in September.


Buttigieg, a fundraising juggernaut in 2019, has leaned on high-dollar donors to help fuel his campaign, bringing in more than $19 million during the third quarter — though he has also raised significant money in smaller amounts online. Buttigieg is getting about twice as much support in polls of Iowa caucusgoers as he is in national Democratic primary surveys, and the South Bend, Ind., mayor’s campaign rushed to build out a big, on-the-ground campaign infrastructure in Iowa this fall.