Buttigieg Backs Biden as Dem Nominee After Rocky Debate
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Newsmax ^
| 28 June 2024 05:25 PM EDT | Fran Beyer
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Friday lamented President Joe Biden's rocky debate performance but defended his status as the Democrat nominee. In
an interview on MSNBC, Buttigieg conceded "It wasn't the debate I would have loved for us to have." "I know what it's like, to have a night on the campaign trail or a day or a moment or an event or an interview that you go back and say, ‘I would have done this different or done that different,' " he said. Buttigieg went up against Biden in a debate in 2020 as Buttigieg was seeking the Democrat...
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Pete Buttigieg on fatherhood
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CBS News ^
| June 26, 2024 | By Jonathan Vigliotti
When it comes to handling a pair of toddlers, Pete Buttigieg, the unflappable Secretary of Transportation, may appear a little jet-lagged. Pete
and his husband, Chasten Buttigieg, raise their two-year old twins, Penelope and Gus, in Traverse City, Michigan, where they recently moved full-time from Washington to be closer to family. The kids call Pete "Papa," and Chasten "Daddy." Asked if they are a good cop/bad cop duo, Pete replied, "I don't know if we have it down to good cop/bad cop. I think of myself as the bad cop, but you think I'm a pushover, don't you?" "You are...
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Pete Buttigieg reacts to Martha Alito's Pride flag comment
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CNN via youtube ^
| Jun 12, 2024 | CNN
Start at the 4:45 mark and listen for the next 2 minutes 15 seconds total It appears that Pete Buttigieg is categorizing a Sacred Heart of Jesus flag as 'Insurrectionist Symbology.'
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Pete Buttigieg Makes Ridiculous Claim about EVs, CBS Host Laughs in His Face – WATCH
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Daily Fetched ^
| May 29, 2024 | Jason Walsh
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg attempted to justify the progress on electric vehicle (EV) charging stations, prompting a laugh from CBS’s “Face the Nation” host Margaret Brenna. After $7.5 billion of taxpayers’ money being plowed into the initiative, just a “handful” of charging stations have been built. The
interview took a comedic turn when Brennan pointed out the discrepancy between the investment made back in 2021 and the reality of the results. Just seven or eight charging stations have been built despite billions being spent, according to the Federal Highway Administration, “Why isn’t that happening more quickly?” asked Brennan. Buttigieg responded...
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Pete Buttigieg Blames Recent Boeing Incidents on ‘Climate Change’
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The Daily Fetched ^
| 27 May 2024 | Jason Walsh
Joe Biden’s Transportation Secretary, Pete Buttigieg, has claimed that the spate of recent Boeing incidents involving turbulence is due to “climate change.” Appearing
on CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday, Buttigieg predicted that turbulence is something that will continue to “affect American travelers, whether here or abroad.”
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Buttigieg Can’t Explain Why Biden Has Only Built ‘Seven or Eight’ EV Charging Stations
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Breitbart ^
| 05/26/2024 | Joel B Pollack
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg struggled Sunday on CBS’ Face the Nation to explain why the Biden administration has only manged to build “seven or eight” electric vehicle (EV) charging stations thus far. As
Breitbart News has noted, while the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 allocated $7.5 billion for EV stations, as part of building a national EV charging infrastructure, no EV charging stations had been built by the end of 2023.
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Buttigieg blames climate change for increase in deadly severe flight turbulence
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NY Post ^
| May 26, 2024 | By Ryan King
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg faulted climate change for the increase in severe turbulence on commercial airline flights while citing estimates that it has shot up by double digits over recent decades. “The
reality is, the effects of climate change are already upon us in terms of our transportation,” Buttigieg told CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday. “We’ve seen that in the form of everything from heat waves that shouldn’t statistically even be possible threatening to melt the cables of transit systems in the Pacific Northwest,” he went on before citing “indications that turbulence is up by about 15%.” Since taking...
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Female passenger unleashes foul-mouthed tirade on LAX staff... before making VERY awkward realization ('Call Pete Buttigieg right now to handle the TSA!')
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Daily Mail ^
| 4/26/24 | James Gant
This is the moment a Delta passenger has a huge meltdown at LAX - only to realize she's screaming at the wrong people. The
woman, who has not been named, was filmed verbally abusing airline staff at the counter after she reportedly missed her flight. 'Get me the **** up on the next flight you *************' she is heard yelling, before demanding to speak to Transport Secretary Pete Buttigieg. She repeatedly screamed: 'Call Pete Buttigieg right now to handle the TSA! 'Call that ************ right now! That useless ************' The woman then slammed her fist on the counter, sparking laughter...
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Chasten Buttigieg: Republicans Want Suicidal LGBT People to ‘Pull The Trigger’ (VIDEO)
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The Gateway Pundit ^
| April 13, 2024 | Ben Kew
Chasten Buttigieg, the husband of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, said on MSNBC’s Deadline that Republicans would like LGBTQ people to “pull the trigger” and end their lives. In
an interview with host Nicole Wallace, Buttigieg described his own experience as a homosexual man: [It requires a lot of vulnerability. It’s really hard but for me, getting to grow up to be this person was a miracle. When I was 13, 14 years old and sitting in my parent’s basement, I would stare at my dad’s gun cabinet and I thought that was the only way out. I would never know...
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Chasten Buttigieg: Republicans Are Telling Suicidal LGBTQ People to ‘Pull the Trigger’
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Breitbart ^
| 04/12/2024 | Pam Key
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s husband Chasten Buttigieg said Friday on MSNBC “Deadline ” that Republicans were telling suicidal LGBTQ people to “pull the trigger.” Host
Nicolle Wallace said, “I think that’s exactly right. I keep having Amanda Zurawski back, the woman in Texas who was pregnant and named her daughter Willow. She lost her pregnancy at 18 weeks and almost died of sepsis. It’s a story that is real. It’s a woman who very much wanted her pregnancy. It’s this inconvenient wrinkle for Republicans for extremist Republicans policies on abortion because it doesn’t fit into the mold. If you love...
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Buttigieg Downplays D.C. Crime Rate, Says He Can ‘Safely Walk’ His Dog
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Breitbart ^
| 04/09/2024
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg dismissed the idea that Washington, DC, is experiencing a rise in crime, pointing out that a “lot of energy” was going into painting the narrative. During
an interview with MSNBC host Jen Psaki on Sunday, Buttigieg highlighted how he was able to “safely walk” his dog in the nation’s capital without any problems. Buttigieg, like many other elected officials, is provided with a security detail.
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'Keep peddling the same lie': Internet trolls Pete Buttigieg as he praises Joe Biden for a growing economy
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MSN ^
| 04/08/2024 | Debapriya Bhattacharya
NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: Pete Buttigieg took to X (formerly Twitter) to praise President Joe Biden for improving the economy while acknowledging that more work remained, on Sunday, April 7. The
Transportation Secretary shared a clip from his interview on MSNBC, where he spoke on the subject, netizens, however, are unconvinced by his statements. In the clip posted by Pete Buttigieg, he is seen telling the interviewer, "I think it's important to recognize where people are at. Two, the country has been through a lot, (and) families have been through a lot. And just because a number on a...
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Pete Buttigieg, Worst Transportation Secretary Ever, Hints He Won’t Run For Office Again
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The Federalist ^
| 04/03/2024 | M.D. Kittle
Mayor Pete’s ideal for presidential work ethic is the geezer who has napped his way through office? Exhausting.
Oh, say it isn’t so, Pete. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, arguably the laziest man in Sleepy Joe Biden’s cabinet (and among the most incompetent), seems to be thinking hard about leaving the rough-and-tumble world of politics behind. It’s just too much work. The once-rising star in leftist political circles, who ran for president on the winning platform of being gay and being mayor of a small Midwest city, told “Face the Nation” that politics is hard. Buttigieg came to that conclusion by...
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Buttigieg: Opposing Electric Cars Is Like Wanting ‘Landline Phones Forever’
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Breitbart ^
| 04/03/2024 | Pam Key
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg said Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “America Reports” that people who do not want electric cars were like those who wanted “landline phones forever.” Buttigieg
said, “Let’s be clear consumers have wanted and purchased more EVs every single year than the year before. Tesla is facing more competition as GM and Ford and Stellantis and other competitive players make sure they get a piece of the EV market. Let’s be clear, the automotive sector is moving toward EVs and we can’t pretend otherwise. Sometimes, when these debates happen, I feel like it’s the early 2000s...
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Buttigieg: Industry ‘Moving Towards EVs’ But We Can’t Let ‘Economically Smart Play’ ‘Happen on Its Own Pace’
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Breitbart ^
| 04/03/2024 | IAN HANCHETT
On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America Reports,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg stated that “the automotive sector is moving towards EVs” and China pushed for an advantage in the EV market “because that’s the economically smart play” but “we can’t just sit back and let this happen on its own
pace” because there’s a competition between the U.S. and China. Co-host John Roberts asked, “Tesla sales fell 8.5% the first quarter of this year, Ford, this week, is laying off two-thirds of its workforce at the F-150 electric Lightning plant, it’s also scaling back a battery production facility...
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Buttigieg says he has no idea when Baltimore bridge debris might be cleared: ‘A very complex process’
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Nypost ^
| 03/31/2024 | Ryan King
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg couldn’t give a time frame Sunday for when debris from the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse will be cleared from the critical mega US shipping channel. “We
haven’t received a timeline yet,” the country’s top transportation chief told CBS’ “Face the Nation” of the massive expected clean-up of the wreckage from the destroyed Baltimore span, which runs roughly 1.6 miles over the Patapsco River, a key transportation route that handled a whopping $80 billion in cargo last year. “This is going to be a very complex process, there are even now forces acting on that steel,”...
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Baltimore bridge collapse puts spotlight on rising stars Moore, Buttigieg
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The Hill ^
| 03/29/2024
Two of the Democratic Party’s rising stars have been thrust into the national spotlight this week after the bridge collapse in Baltimore. Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, 45, and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, 42 — both of whom considered likely candidates for higher office in the future — face a key test with
their handling of the aftermath of the disaster, which took six lives and will require a bridge reconstruction and port reopening. “It is a bright reflection of the talent we have within the Democratic Party and their ability to lead in times of crisis,” said Antjuan Seawright, a...
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Buttigieg faces his ‘biggest test yet’ in Baltimore bridge collapse
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Politico ^
| 03/27/2024 | ADAM WREN
When a train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, last year, Pete Buttigieg drew criticism for not showing up right away. In
responding to the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge — a far different crisis, this time at the center of his portfolio — he’s not making that mistake again. On the day the bridge collapsed, Buttigieg had planned a trip to Wyoming and Montana — what would have amounted to his 47th and 48th states visited as Transportation secretary — to tour infrastructure projects. But before leaving from Dulles International Airport on Tuesday, his work cell phone buzzed...
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Fact Check: Buttigieg ‘racist’ highway clip shared after Baltimore bridge collapse is from 2021
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Reuters ^
| March 28, 2024
A 2021 clip of U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg discussing “racist” highway designs is being shared online as if it shows his response to the March 2024 bridge collapse in Baltimore. On March 26, a container ship collided with the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, causing the bridge to collapse.
Afterward, a 28-second video, opens new tab surfaced on social media showing Buttigieg standing before a podium in the White House discussing the architecture of highway bridges, saying: “If an underpass was constructed such that a bus carrying mostly Black and Puerto Rican kids to a beach, or...
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Buttigieg Praises Cargo Ship For Helping Dismantle Racism In American Roads
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The Bee ^
| March 27, 2024 | Staff
BALTIMORE, MD — As crews continued to deal with the aftermath of the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg praised the cargo ship Dali for helping dismantle racism in American roads. With
the investigation into the cause of the disaster still in progress and the rebuilding of the bridge expected to be a long and complicated process, Buttigieg hailed the collapse as a step in the right direction to root out the deep-seated systemic racism and oppressive ideology that formed the foundation of the nation's roads and bridges. "This catastrophe is a beautiful turning point,"...
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