Pete Buttigieg
speaker
137 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 8 Aug
Pete Buttigieg’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And that's what we're here to do something about.
Well, I think it's important that we reach out everywhere at this moment when more and more people, including independents and a lot of people who usually vote Republican, are ready for something different.
Sometimes I think we've been made to feel like we who are opposed to what's going on right now in Washington and in Congress are the minority.
We not only have a majority, we have a super majority in public opinion.
when it comes to the Iran war, when it comes to the prices being too high, when it comes to the need for the wealthiest people and corporations to pay their fair share, on and on down the list, healthcare, you name it.
But having a majority in public opinion doesn't automatically mean you get a majority in Congress.
You got to go out there and work for it.
And what I have found in places like Nebraska's second district, where I was today, like Iowa, where I was yesterday, other places I've been campaigning from,
Marjorie Taylor Greene's district in Northwest Georgia, to the work we were doing in Montana, to heading out to Florida in a little while.
There are so many people who, if we can get in front of them with that message, I think they're going to respond and are going to insist on change, deliver change.
And it's a reminder also that you don't have to wait till the next presidential election to do something.
We have a lot of elections right now in front of us in 2026.
We got to make sure that they go well.
Well, that's why it's so important to point to all of these things where we have this in common, where it's not about triangulating some ideological middle.
It's about finding that most Americans, the left, the center, and quite a few people who usually vote more right are going to agree right now on health care, on all of the corruption that's going on right now.
But only if we do the work.
And, you know, I don't think there is any contradiction between standing firm in our values and being there for people who have been part of our coalition for many years and many generations and inviting people to come join that coalition and grow it.
The most effective Democratic candidates and presidents in my lifetime did that.
I think back to how it felt in supposedly deep red Indiana.
The night that that state turned blue in 2008, as Barack Obama both consolidated that Democratic coalition and invited a lot of people who usually voted the other way to cross over.
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