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Pete Buttigieg

lines on the record: 60
first: 2024-07-25
most recent: 2024-07-25
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“I do actually. Look, there's a narrow space and it is about police brutality and police violence, and that has not been solved in which being a prosecutor who's tough on crime works against you. Similar thing occurred with Josh Shapiro in Pennsylvania, also a prosecutor, also known to be tough on crime. Generally speaking, if you separate police brutality and unfairness in the justice system with what you could describe as law and order, meaning an orderly society, you can win on that front. And I think Kamala Harris has that chance now to set herself out. And as she did in that clip that you played, to say, I know what people like this are. Donald Trump's a lawbreaker. Donald Trump's a cheat. Donald Trump is a fraudster. Donald Trump is dishonest. To be able to go down that road, which people were really hoping Biden 2024 could do like Biden 2020 could do or 2019 could do. Biden wasn't able to do that this time around.”
2024-07-25 · Pod Save America · Kamala Harris Starts Hot (feat. Pete Buttigieg) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Those are two of the major issues. Obviously, Israel and Gaza is another one, and we're yet to see how that unfolds, but I'm actually more hopeful that she's able to motivate some of the voters who weren't going to show up for Joe Biden on that issue.”
2024-07-25 · Pod Save America · Kamala Harris Starts Hot (feat. Pete Buttigieg) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And that's the winningest thing that Democrats have at the moment. Even if Democrats could overcome the weird thing about inflation and the economy, whereas the economy is doing one thing and people seem to express that it's doing another, they feel another, that's a real piece of work for the campaign. And I hope that that works better for Kamala Harris than it has for Joe Biden. But this abortion issue still drives more voters out there, and it will drive more voters to the polls in the end. So Democrats, I mean, look, you know that there are people who argue that Democrats should be leaning into that and guns. Kamala Harris is actually a leader on both of those areas for the things that could cause people who weren't going to vote to go out and vote.”
2024-07-25 · Pod Save America · Kamala Harris Starts Hot (feat. Pete Buttigieg) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It also, look, we've heard it. You heard it from your listeners. I've heard it from my viewers. People are exhausted. They are diminished. They feel overwhelmed. And the idea that you can be useful, that you can be part of a movement, that you can be part of something that feels like the future, not a negative future where we close off our borders and we call immigrants vermin and we obsess about transgender kids and we worry about how many ways we can restrict abortion An actual future that talks about economic growth, the growth of our country, leadership of the world, the saving of democracy, the reinstituting of human rights norms around the world and being a leader at that exciting That makes me feel like I want to get out and do something as opposed to just the endless onslaught of my freedoms.”
2024-07-25 · Pod Save America · Kamala Harris Starts Hot (feat. Pete Buttigieg) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Possibly, but we were going to talk about different states being in play. And this is going to be a bit of a heavy lift for Democrats, particularly for even for people like me who say that this is an existential election about democracy. For the moment, she's embracing a slightly different message, that there's a bright future for America. She's going to lean onto the Biden economic track record, but generally talk about the future. And that contrasts with Donald Trump's, generally speaking, bleak, restrictive, isolationist future. I think that might be a more creative thing. People like me are still going to go on and warn people that if you don't vote in this election, your democracy could be at risk. She may go out with a different message, and it might be refreshing and it might be enticing to voters who are going to sit on their hands.”
2024-07-25 · Pod Save America · Kamala Harris Starts Hot (feat. Pete Buttigieg) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Know Ben might have been a few days after Ben Wickler had said that they were out knocking on doors and everybody thought the debate performance was bad. Virtually none of those Democrats who thought so said, and so I'm going to vote for Donald Trump. What this has done is cause that discussion to go by the wayside because for people in Wisconsin and Michigan, this is going to be very, very important because there were Democrats who went out and said, I'm dissatisfied with Joe Biden. Some of them were further dissatisfied by the debate performance. Now they've got a reason to come back. And it didn't need to be a massive reason, but it's a reason. And I think Kamala Harris has a remarkable opportunity here, not just for the first impression, but to shape what the discourse is going to be for the next 65 days and then 155 days or whatever it is until the election.”
2024-07-25 · Pod Save America · Kamala Harris Starts Hot (feat. Pete Buttigieg) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Hobbled by the fact that the Biden question had become disuniting. Wherever you were on the spectrum of whether Biden should stay or Biden should go, it felt hopeless for Democrats. And she has walked into this thing and she has said, all right, we're putting that conversation aside. We're done with that conversation. Now we're deciding what the message is to the American voter who was either unenthusiastic, was feeling overwhelmed. I'm amazed. As you know very well, it's very early days on one hand. On the other hand, we're talking about almost 100 days to the election. It's really about 65 days before the first ballots are cast. And people don't know Kamala Harris as well as they think they do. In other words, she didn't get that far in her attempt to be the presidential candidate the last time around. So it is her reintroduction to America and she's got an opportunity here.”
2024-07-25 · Pod Save America · Kamala Harris Starts Hot (feat. Pete Buttigieg) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I am blown away by how it's going. I have to tell you because I, as a journalist, don't often think these things will go as well as the faithful do. I thought it would be a little rockier than this. I thought there would be a little more opposition. I think it's kind of amazing how she sort of stepped into this unity issue. The idea that I think Democrats were so...”
2024-07-25 · Pod Save America · Kamala Harris Starts Hot (feat. Pete Buttigieg) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“To this, and everybody was like, you know, I get all my information, I get all my analysis from Pod Safe. So I was actually a tad nervous, but I'm glad you thought it worked well, and I'm glad to be back with you.”
2024-07-25 · Pod Save America · Kamala Harris Starts Hot (feat. Pete Buttigieg) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Tell you congratulations, and it was a pleasure. I don't get nervous much for appearances of being on air or being on podcasts, given how much I do. I've been nervous two times in the probably last 15 years. The first one was going on Oprah. And one was filling in for you. Because”
2024-07-25 · Pod Save America · Kamala Harris Starts Hot (feat. Pete Buttigieg) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source