Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg was the Transportation secretary under President Joe Biden. Buttigieg was elected mayor of South Bend, Ind., in 2011 and was re-elected in 2015. He decided not to seek re-election and his term ended in January 2020. From 2009 to 2017, he served in the U.S. Navy Reserve and was a lieutenant. He received a bachelor’s degree in history and literature from Harvard College and a first-class honors bachelor’s degree in philosophy, politics and economics from Pembroke College as a Rhodes Scholar. He ran for president in the 2020 Democratic primaries.
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“I am not making this up: Republicans have introduced legislation … to increase your bank fees."
JD Vance holds “anti-marriage-equality views.”
Gov. Tim Walz delivered paid family leave in Minnesota but “Republicans are blocking” a Biden-Harris proposal.
“Even before the pandemic, America went into a manufacturing recession.”
The stock market “hit an all-time high under President Biden and not under President Trump."
Sen. Marco Rubio signed a 2021 letter that “supports waivers that would reduce visual track inspections.”
“There is racism physically built into some of our highways.”
President Joe Biden’s infrastructure proposal “is fully paid for. Across 15 years, it would raise all of the revenue needed for these once-in-a-lifetime investments."
“If you like your private plan, you can keep it.”
Says Bernie Sanders would “go beyond reform and reorder the economy in ways most Democrats — let alone most Americans — don’t support."