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Some ~ personal news ~
Excited to be joining
@TheDemocrats
and teaming up with
@Lis_Smith
(again).
The
@DNC
is going to make sure voters are educated and everyone is playing by the rules as we head into a crucial election cycle.
More below from
@aseitzwald
NEW: The DNC is building its first-ever team to counter third-party candidates, hiring
@Lis_Smith
and
@mattcorridoni
.
Meanwhile, outside groups are preparing for open war with third party candidates like never before.
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Un-elected
#AZSen
Martha McSally attacking Giffords in the
#AZSenDebate
was a *choice.* Like he does with everything,
@CaptMarkKelly
responded with poise and grace:
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Smart and insightful read from
@Lis_Smith
.
@JoeBiden
's greatest strength (and best contrast to Trump) is his empathy. That can't be taught and it translates well on TV. How the campaign moving off the trail and onto our screens provides a real opportunity:
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The way
@PeteButtigieg
answers this question about protecting marriage equality: raw, emotional, and personal. Representation matters and making Republicans own the votes they're taking against real families is something we're going to do now through November.
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Refreshing to see new leadership on these panels who can take a step back and offer a non-beltway perspective.
@MalloryMcMorrow
cut through the news in a lot of ways on
@CNN
. Here she's reminding us that "The Big Lie" isn't about "points on the board" - it's about our democracy:
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#PeteOnCNN
I was with
@PeteButtigieg
when he translated for that family in Houston. Photo of that night below. It was one of the most moving staffing experiences I've ever had. In the middle of chaos Pete showed poise and went into action. That's who he is.
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This is big.
@votevets
isn't just letting a story live in a vacuum, they're using it to directly communicate and mobilize a group that has traditionally been thought of as a Republican stronghold.
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"I would look to the Obama standard of releasing not just a letter from a doctor, but actual results from a physical. That's what we're planning to do, and I think every candidate should hold themselves to that same standard." -
@PeteButtigieg
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#DemDebate
@VanJones68
on
@PeteButtigieg
"[He] spoke very beautifully tonight...Even asked about reparations...[he] didn't duck it, and he said 'you know the value of a dollar saved, what's the value of a dollar stolen?' Now listen, that's some Barack Obama level poetry"
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After the
#RussianBounty
scandal, I wouldn’t want anyone at Walter Reed to see my face either.
For the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began, President Trump has been seen by the White House press corps wearing a mask. Today, he's sporting the face covering while visiting wounded troops at Walter Reed Medical Center.
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"We [Republicans] are not - right now - a party fit for governing..." -
@BrendanBuck
saying the quiet part out loud about the GOP heading into the '24 election.
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"It's probably the best I've seen out of any candidate...it really gets at, in my opinion, infrastructure broad-based...he intersects public-private partnerships...Very smart." -
@robertwolf32
on
@PeteButtigieg
's new infrastructure plan
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I think Democratic veterans do the gun thing better.
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Thinking about the wine cave party we'd be throwing if there wasn't a pandemic. Congrats, Secretary Mayor
@PeteButtigieg
! ❤️
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#DemDebate
"Guess who showed them how to be a front runner and get attacked?
@PeteButtigieg
. [He] took it all ways and he had answers for everything...[he was on that stage because] he's got support." -
@rickwtyler
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Can’t help but choke on the woke policies Dems are forcing down our throats. Thanks, Dr.
@RandPaul
!
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"I though Mayor Pete's comments...let me stipulate -- it is hard. To come up with an attack line is one thing. What Mayor Pete seemed to do was, he gamed out the conversation." -
@NicolleDWallace
on
@PeteButtigieg
's winning
#DemDebate
performance.
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👋🏼 gay person here! Mike Pence has, in fact, played politics with my life.
#VPDebate
"Stop playing politics with people's lives" is really something coming from Mike Pence.
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.
@JoeNBC
to
@PeteButtigieg
"Seriously, congratulations. It looks like from everything we've seen, you had a heck of a night last night."
#IACaucus
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WINNER:
@PeteButtigieg
: "Buttigieg used the national spotlight to make a very savvy play to be the Sanders alternative. He savaged Sanders' 'inflexible, ideological revolution that leaves out most Democrats'...Mission accomplished for Team Buttigieg."
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#IACaucus
former registered Republican in Marshalltown today on why she changed her registration to caucus for
@PeteButtigieg
: "[He] is intelligent. He has an understanding of the constitution. He served our country, and I think that he's the complete opposite of Donald Trump."
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~some personal news~
@Lis_Smith
asking me to work for
@PeteButtigieg
is my kryptonite. So we're getting the band back together - this time to
#WinTheEra
. Excited to join
#TeamPete
as
@PeteForAmerica
's Dept. Director of Rapid Response (and revive a dynamic duo with
@ssavett
).
FIRST IN PLAYBOOK: Pete Buttigieg’s campaign is bringing on Rachel Thomas as deputy communications director, Matt Corridoni as deputy rapid response communications director and Hasoni Pratts as national constituency director. More in Playbook:
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Live shot of me reading this:
Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn and Diane Keaton will share the big screen together for the first time in over two decades.
@miagaluppo
has the details:
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🧐 “doesn’t reflect his views” and yet here’s
@RobertKennedyJr
saying he’d be open to pardoning Janurary 6th insurrectionists:
UPDATE: The Kennedy campaign is disowning their own comment on Jan. 6 “activists”
“That statement was an error that does not reflect Mr. Kennedy’s views. It was inserted by a new marketing contractor and slipped through the normal approval process.”
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🚨🚨🚨 New this AM:
@EleniForCA
is joining
#TeamPete
& endorsing
@PeteButtigieg
for president in the California Primary. “What I see in Pete Buttigieg is someone who is young, who is smart, who is a veteran who has served overseas representing our country”
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“Look @ the 4 top contenders, 3 are from DC...Who is the only one in that group that is brand spanking new? It is the one who right now has number one by his name. I do think there is a sense that you don't change by doing more of the same”-
@clairecmc
on
@PeteButtigieg
#IACaucus
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"
@PeteButtigieg
ran almost as strongly in suburban, urban, and rural areas. He ran just about the same among various demographic cohorts...[his message is that] he is the guy who can bring the different elements of the Democratic Party together." -
@davidaxelrod
#IACaucus
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"I was so proud, so incredibly proud to have Mayor
@PeteButtigieg
's endorsement as well. There's a man of character, intellect, and courage." -
@JoeBiden
#SuperTuesday
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Staying silent (and called out in this
@votevets
video):
-
@MarthaMcSally
#AZSen
-
@ThomTillis
#NCSen
#ncpol
-
@SenSusanCollins
#mepolitics
#mesen
-
@joniernst
#IAsen
-
@SteveDaines
#MTSen
-
@JohnCornyn
#TXSen
-
@LindseyGrahamSC
#scpol
#SCSen
-
@Team_Mitch
#KYSen
Republicans stand in unified silence against our military and fallen heroes with every moment they don’t call out Donald Trump.
This 98-year-old WWII POW has a clear message for ALL of them.
#TraitorTrump
#TraitorGOP
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Alternative headline: “Anti-vaxxer does press during coronavirus outbreak.”
Marianne Williamson throws shade at Buttigieg, Klobuchar for endorsing Biden: "Must’ve read 'Art of the Deal'"
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(•_•)
<) )╯It is not the Minority's responsibility
/
(•_•)
( (> To elect
/
(•_•)
<) )> A Speaker
/
Question of the day is how many Democrats can see past their hatred of McCarthy to recognize how bad a precedent this would be - and how things get no better for them under the next person.
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This was a disaster for Sununu and another example of
@GStephanopoulos
giving a total masterclass on how to conduct an interview:
STEPHANOPOULOS: Just to sum up. You support Trump for president even if he's convicted in the classified documents case. You support him for president even though you believe he contributed to an insurrection. You support him for president even though you believe he's lying about…
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#DemDebate
@NicolleDWallace
on
@PeteButtigieg
"[He] is remarkable for this reason. He went to Iowa...and he put what is his training [to] use organizing and coming out with a victory...He approaches the debates in a similar way...[he] had a singular ability to converse."
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Hey 12 year old Matt! This is the future. It's gonna be okay:
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#VPDebate
:
@PeteButtigieg
gives a behind-the-scenes glimpse of prep by doing his
@Mike_Pence
impression and also weighs-in on
#flygate
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Love seeing my old pal and former colleague
@K_JeanPierre
cut through the noise:
@KamalaHarris
made history and laid out a clear vision for what the Biden / Harris Administration will achieve.
#VPDebate
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"
@PeteButtigieg
knows this country needs to be healed...Pete gets it...it's all about family and community...I look at Pete in the debates and think, 'that's a Beau.' He has such character...you're going to see a Hell of a lot more of Pete." -
@JoeBiden
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Reviews are in for
@PeteButtigieg
hosting
@JimmyKimmelLive
: “Whatever it is, Buttigieg proved once more that he always shows up prepared.”
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BuT bErNiE sAiD hE cOuLd MoBoLiZe YoUnG pEoPlE
The youth vote share in North Carolina is smaller than it was 2016. Bernie is not growing.
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An openly gay man won the Iowa caucus and gave America hope. That’s the tweet.
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"These debates are really about moments...I think
@PeteButtigieg
's answer on Commander-in-Chief was a standout moment....He gave the strongest answer on that stage." -
@joelockhart
#DemDebate
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Some
@PeteButtigieg
fundraising numbers since Midnight on Tuesday:
- 63,841 individual donations
- Over 22,000 new donors (22,636 to be exact!)
-$2.73 million raised with an average of $42
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"It's a huge win for
@PeteButtigieg
any way you want to cut it. He won in urban. He won in rural. He won in suburban...he was able to show he could build a good coalition, very well organized...it was a huge night for Pete." - .
@TerryMcAuliffe
. THE MACKER HAS SPOKEN!
#IACaucus
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This cycle has truly been four years long. I started it on
@PeteButtigieg
‘s DNC Chair race and I’m ending it helping to flip the senate. *A LOT* has happened in between - but - this image is living in my head rent free heading into tomorrow. Let’s bring it home, fam.
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Exclusive: Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name
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"We woke up this morning to learn that fellow Americans...were attacked--violently attacked last night because they were Jewish...This is an opportunity that goes far beyond politics...for us to send a message...America has no room for hate." -
@PeteButtigieg
just now in IA.
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This is the second campaign I’ve worked on where
@PeteButtigieg
put the Democratic Party and country ahead of his political ambitions. It’s emotional and remarkable to see Democrats unite at the end of the day. We still have the same cause we always did,
#TeamPete
: beat Trump.
For a year and two days, I have known who I would vote for this morning.
For 10 months, I've been doing everything in my power to make him president.
Today, I cried at my polling place as I did one more thing for him.
I voted for someone else.
#PeteToBiden
#TeamPete
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"I'm endorsing
@PeteButtigieg
[in the
#IACaucus
] for president because he offers a new kind of leadership. You can already see his message resonating in Waterloo and across the state." - Sen. Bill Dotzler
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#mapoli
I clipped "Political Harmony" in its eternity. Merry - and i cannot stress this enough - Christmas!
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"1200 people at that [
@PeteButtigieg
] rally...a number of undecided voters. One woman told me at the end that she didn't know who she was going to vote for or caucus for until she got in that room with
@PeteButtigieg
. (She's now
#TeamPete
)
#IACaucus
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Odd time to be doing the *personal news* thing - but - the work to help Democrats up and down ballot this November continues. Excited to be joining
@MajorityPAC
today as press secretary. As we've seen over the last few weeks - we need to flip the Senate blue!
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Honestly, if ever there was a day for
@MurphyBrownCBS
to come back it’s today.
#MurphyBrown
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#DemDebate
WINNER:
@PeteButtigieg
"He was steady if not spectacular in this debate. And he spent lots of time going at Sanders, a clear effort to send a signal to voters that he is the most credible alternative to the Vermont senator."
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It’s helpful for Bernie’s online fundraising if everyone thinks billionaires are bankrolling his opponents. He knows full well the legal limit someone can give to a campaign is $2800 no matter their wealth. His bet is you don’t know so he can manipulate you into giving.
No, Joe. The "establishment" are the 60 billionaires who are funding your campaign and the corporate-funded super PACs that are spending millions on negative ads attacking me.
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Some news out of South Carolina.
@PeteButtigieg
calls on the administration to classify coronavirus "eligible as a preventive covered service under the Affordable Care Act when it comes to treatment or screening, the same as we would with the flu shot."
Pete Buttigieg weighs in on coronavirus in Rock Hill, SC: "It's an example of what is at stake in presidential leadership."
Calls on response to be "guided above all by science, & not by politics," & for US govt to classify vaccine as "preventative" & cover it under Obamacare.
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Lots of bad takes about how
@PeteButtigieg
handled being a "gay candidate" & how he was received.
@michaelkruse
got it right & was awarded an Association of
#LGBTQ
Journalists 2020 Excellence in Journalism Award for this article I was honored to help with:
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#DemDebate
@DrVMDS
: "What a couple of candidates did tonight which was so effective -- I think
@PeteButtigieg
was one of the best at this -- is he said 'we need to come together because here's the real deal: Congress and the courts."
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#DemDebate
@BrendanBuck
on
@PeteButtigieg
: "he has done a great job...he shows he can fight. I mean, what I thought was striking was the way he was so prepared...[he] knew this was coming and he was ready and he showed...[he] could also fight with Donald Trump."
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Fun
#CNNTownHall
fact:
@PeteButtigieg
's last two
@CNN
town halls (on February 18th and February 6th) were the top rated program on both those days for the network.
Don't miss your chance to watch another (and Tweet along),
#TeamPete
! Tune-in tonight at 10:00 PM ET.
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"He is the antithesis of Donald Trump. I think the way you beat Trump is not to meet blunt force with blunt force, the way you beat Donald Trump is jiu jitsu, you use his negative energy against him." -
@davidaxelrod
on
@PeteButtigieg
.
A few war stories but mostly
@davidaxelrod
giving his view on the political wars, primary and general, that will define our country. Give it a listen.
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Here’s a montage of
@SenSusanCollins
reassuring us Kavanaugh wouldn’t try to overturn Roe as a member of the
#SCOTUS
. She was wrong.
#MESen
#mepolitics
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Live shot of
@LucasFoxNews
:
Amazing: Fox News correspondent
@LucasFoxNews
reports that Biden "continues to face questions about his age, even here in Nantucket" -- citing nothing more than a question
@LucasFoxNews
himself shouted at Biden on Saturday. The epitome of astroturfing a political attack.
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Third time’s the charm?
In what they say is his last campaign shakeup, DeSantis “reloads” his campaign, replacing manager Generra Peck with his chief of staff & chief political fixer, James Uthmeier.
DeSantis offered him the job after a weeklong review
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"
@PeteButtigieg
did himself some good. Without any arrows being shot his way...the former mayor was given space to pull off some good zingers and create moments"
#DemDebate
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"What I do know is there are some voices in the Democratic primary right now who are calling for a policy that would eliminate the job of every single American working at every single insurance company in the country."
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#DemDebate
“They see [
@PeteButtigieg
] as a real threat now…[he] is a viable contender for the Democratic nomination.” -
@costareports
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“
@PeteButtigieg
has tried to [be] a legitimate outsider...you can't blame him...everybody in the country thinks Washington cannot figure it out. And so that's the dynamic that was set up here...[he] did a good job...he was very effective…” -
@clairecmc
#DemDebate
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Just now in Tennessee:
@PeteButtigieg
answering a q about Asian American discrimination around coronavirus. "You belong in this country and in your school just as much as anybody and don't ever let anybody tell you different, alright?" This is what leadership looks like.
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"It was (
@PeteButtigieg
's) 'welcome to the NFL' moment...everyone acknowledging that he has earned his frontrunner status...I was struck that he was ready for it...I think he probably got the better of [the exchange]" -
@ktumulty
on
#DemDebate
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"We have to define real progressivism not by how negative you can be on Twitter or by how angry you are, but by what it is we're actually for." -
@PeteButtigieg
to
@MeghanMcCain
on how we can prevent a repeat of 2016 (and the lack of "Pete Bros" online).
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“If I see the real thing in Nashua, should I tell you about it?” cc:
@BradleyWhitford
#SaturdayVibes
:
@PeteButtigieg
addresses nearly 1100 Granite Staters in Nashua this afternoon.
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👋🏻 I live in the same building as you. There were literal Nazi’s outside the other day. I work on the Hill. Literal Nazi’s outside there as well. You have a driver to take you to work. I don’t. You got a police escort out of the Capitol and were taken to safety. I wasn’t.
Really sad. At a time of deep national division, President-elect Biden’s choice to call his political opponents literal Nazis does nothing to bring us together or promote healing.
This kind of vicious partisan rhetoric only tears our country apart.
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To our friends and counterparts on Team Biden who are about to have their mentions filled with rat emojis, we’re here to support you. Stay strong,
@AndrewBatesNC
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I couldn't help but wonder, if it's still Thursday on The Hill, is there still time for me to find my Mr. Right before October? If BIF and Build Back Better were still trying to get on the same track after all of their ups and downs, maybe there was hope for the rest of us too.
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“I don’t think my grandfather would stand by anybody who would be spreading this misinformation — knowing that farmworkers & Latinos were among the most impacted.”
@latimes
today: the Chavez Family weighs in on
@RobertKennedyJr
(& compares him to Trump):
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"[
@PeteButtigieg
] had a good night...what was interesting about what Mayor Pete did here is he also had probably the most forceful defense that I have heard against Donald Trump's attacks on Joe Biden and Hunter Biden" -
@jonkarl
#DemDebate
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.
@PeteButtigieg
on what his victory means to the LGBTQ community: "So many young people question whether they fit in...we've got a long way to go in the fight for LGBTQ equality [but] the fact that I'm standing here is an amazing example that you belong."
#PeteOnCNN
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Having personally set up this particular shot, I may retire.
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We're less than two hours away from the
#DemDebate
and Team Rapid Response is at the ready. Raise your hand if you're pumped,
#TeamPete
!
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3 yrs. ago today
@Lis_Smith
txted me this article. “Let me know what you think-he’s running for DNC Chair & I need a press secretary.” A lot has happened since then. Meeting
@PeteButtigieg
& seeing America meet his has been EPIC! Let’s make history in 2020
Three years ago today, I was hired by the then-“unknown” mayor of South Bend, Indiana to handle comms for his longshot race for DNC chair.
Today,
@PeteButtigieg
is a top tier contender in the presidential race.
Life can be good. 😉
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Taxpayers shouldn't pay for millionaires to go to college for free.
AOC on Buttigieg: "He’s engaging in bad faith tactics to undermine progressive policies"
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"
@PeteButtigieg
has done very well at attracting rural and small town voters... it was those outstate areas that were really a problem. So watch that going forward." -
@clairecmc
on Pete's rural appeal, electability, and ability to win back voters Democrats lost to Trump.
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