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."
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JD Vance holds “anti-marriage-equality views.”
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Gov. Tim Walz delivered paid family leave in Minnesota but “Republicans are blocking” a Biden-Harris proposal.
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“Even before the pandemic, America went into a manufacturing recession.”
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The stock market “hit an all-time high under President Biden and not under President Trump."
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Sen. Marco Rubio signed a 2021 letter that “supports waivers that would reduce visual track inspections.”
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“There is racism physically built into some of our highways.”
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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.”
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Says Bernie Sanders would “go beyond reform and reorder the economy in ways most Democrats — let alone most Americans — don’t support."