Pete Buttigieg
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 3 Aug
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No, I wasn't.
I was in the cabinet, but that doesn't mean I was invited to rooms when they were talking about things like whether he was going to run for president again.
Yeah.
I thought about the lot because I think in the moment it felt like, oh, we have very little time.
We've all got to pull together.
We've got to put ego aside.
We've got to put kind of internal politics aside.
And we've got to quickly speak with one voice, partly because I knew and we all knew what could happen to this country if Donald Trump was elected again.
And I believe all of those harms and then some have come to pass.
But the other side of the coin is if there had been some way to have a competition, even with that very short timeline, I think that even if the candidate had still been Kamala Harris, I think she likely would have been a better candidate.
I think in 2020, Joe Biden was a better candidate because he had to compete with Kamala Harris and me and like 18 other Democrats before winning that process.
And I think that...
In general, we know the competition sharpens you.
We know the competition gets more information out.
And I'm not saying I have it all solved in my head how that could have been done on the timeline that we faced or what it would have been like.
But I think with the hindsight that we have now, I think it's pretty clear that we would have been better off if we had that.
And I still can't believe that anybody considers this radical.
To me, there's nothing radical about thinking the person who gets the most votes ought to be the winner.
But I think people haven't thought through
How much benefit would come from that?
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