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Pete Buttigieg

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Personal account. For official updates, follow @SecretaryPete . Husband, father, veteran, writer, South Bend’s former Mayor Pete. (he/him)

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Pete Buttigieg

3 years

This is our moment to build back better. Please follow me at @SecretaryPete and @USDOT for the latest updates on how we’re transforming our nation’s transportation future.

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I’m honored to serve as Secretary of Transportation and help build the kind of infrastructure that creates jobs, empowers all, and keeps travelers & workers safe. It’s time to get to work.

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Chasten and I are beyond thankful for all the kind wishes since first sharing the news that we’re becoming parents. We are delighted to welcome Penelope Rose and Joseph August Buttigieg to our family.

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Did the President of the United States just instruct a white supremacist group to “stand by”?

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Just imagine turning on the TV, seeing your president, and feeling your blood pressure go down instead of up.

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I'm honored and humbled by today's vote in the Senate—and ready to get to work @USDOT .

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For some time, Chasten and I have wanted to grow our family. We’re overjoyed to share that we’ve become parents! The process isn’t done yet and we’re thankful for the love, support, and respect for our privacy that has been offered to us. We can’t wait to share more soon.

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From our family to yours, Merry Christmas!

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Congratulations to our next president, Joseph R. Biden, Jr.

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Having my husband @Chasten by my side yesterday in a hearing room is something not seen before for a Cabinet nominee. And our hope is that it makes it easier for the next person to come along.

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This is a moment of tremendous opportunity—to create jobs, meet the climate challenge, and enhance equity for all. I'm honored that the President-elect has asked me to serve our nation as Secretary of Transportation.

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My *preference* is that the winner of this presidential election should choose the next justice.

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Protecting the outgoing president's ego is not worth undermining national security.

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It’s 2022, and 157 House Republicans just voted against marriage equality. That’s where they come down on this issue. In 2022.

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It's too bad Trump is afraid to debate next week.

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If you’re a politician or media figure who sets up the LGBTQ community to be hated and feared - not because any of us ever harmed you but because you find it useful - then don’t you dare act surprised when this kind of violence follows. Don’t you dare act surprised.

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More than ever, I'm looking forward to January 20, 2021.

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Imagine how it will feel the first time the sun comes up and Donald Trump is no longer the president of the United States.

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There's no such thing as a permanently red state. Thank you for your leadership, @StaceyAbrams !

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America would be better off if we got rid of the Electoral College.

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Why is Lindsey Graham refusing to take a Covid test? Is the President still on steroids? Where is the Vice President? How much better off would the USA be if we didn’t have to worry about questions like this?

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At times like this, it would be helpful if our country had a president.

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We will soon have a president who believes in and listens to science, and that will save lives.

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Who does the president owe $421,000,000 to?

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In one week we will have a president and vice president with integrity and decency, qualities we need more than ever.

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A special sunrise this morning. How does it look where you are?

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People in countries whose leaders told them the truth about COVID didn’t “panic.” They responded. And as a result, far fewer of them died.

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Can’t believe we even have to say this, but: if you just went to the Senate floor and blocked benefits for veterans exposed to toxic burn pits while serving our country in a war zone, you are wrong.

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How refreshing that our president-elect is already at work to unite and heal - ready to serve everyone who voted for this ticket, and everyone who didn’t.

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Thank you for inviting me into your homes, sharing your stories, and putting your trust in me. We launched our campaign because Americans are hungry for a new kind of politics that brings us together. And together we'll beat this president and build the era that must come next.

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When was the president’s last negative COVID test?

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Whenever anyone is in court to make it *harder* for Americans to vote, we have to ask: why?

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Joe Biden, not yet claiming victory, is already at work to heal and unite America.

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Vote them out.

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Let's be clear: it is wrong and illegal to use federal property and taxpayer resources for partisan campaigning.

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Today should be a national holiday.

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If someone you love and care about voted the other way, today might be a good day to reach out. Not to talk politics, but to talk about things that will remind them (and yourself) why you love and care about them.

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In 6 weeks we can retire Mitch McConnell as Senate Majority Leader.

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Our country is under attack from white nationalist terrorism, inspiring murder on our soil and abetted by weak gun laws. If we are serious about national security, we must summon the courage to name and defeat this evil.

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Picture waking up that first day the sun rises when Donald Trump is no longer president—and @JoeBiden is in the White House. Let's work to make that happen.

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The president-elect should receive intelligence briefings not just as a courtesy—but as a matter of national security.

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You do not refer to human beings as animals. You just don’t.

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Thank you, Madam Speaker, for literally standing up for our country.

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Being against mask mandates is like being against seat belts.

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It feels good to visualize the moment when Vice President Mike Pence is replaced by Vice President Kamala Harris.

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We need a Secretary of Education who actually believes in public education...and public health.

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To GOP operatives working overtime to disqualify votes from deployed troops because you think it helps your guy: look in the mirror and ask yourself how it came to this.

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The USA held an election during the Civil War, and we will hold one in 96 days. No distractions—let's get to work.

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We need to trust women to make their own health care choices.

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Waiting is hard. That's as normal and human as it gets. But we're waiting because so many people voted and because election workers are carefully ensuring that every vote is counted properly—and that is a good thing.

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Happy Birthday, Mr. President-elect!

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The stock market is not the same thing as the economy.

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She is making history already, and she will serve our nation well. Congratulations Madam Vice President-elect @KamalaHarris !

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Vote as soon as you can.

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We need to be clear with anyone who considers themselves an ally: LGBTQ+ equality is on the ballot.

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I don’t envy Mike Pence’s job of defending the indefensible.

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The Civil Rights Act was signed in 1964 by President Johnson. Show some goddamned respect.

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Imagine, for a moment, having a president more concerned with defeating this virus than protecting Confederate statues.

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He knew.

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Americans who serve aren’t “suckers” or “losers” — they are patriots.

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Listening to medical experts should not be political.

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It should not be hard, especially today, for every elected official and media personality in America—left, right, and center—to unequivocally condemn white nationalism, “replacement theory,” and all that comes with it.

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25 days and still waiting for the president of the United States to comment on reports of Russian bounties on our troops.

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I'm ready for an Attorney General who understands they're the attorney for the American people, not for the president.

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Imagine what would be on your screen—or your mind—tonight, if ours were a normal democracy that gives the presidency to whoever earns the most votes.

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Our Constitution is a living document because it requires real people to interpret laws written in a living language. If it were self-evident, judges would be unnecessary. Interpretation matters.

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Today, #SCOTUS has ruled that no LGBTQ American can be fired because of who they are or who they love.

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The death penalty is wrong. Always.

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Thanks, love.

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Some things should be beyond politics, like funding the post office.

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. @KamalaHarris fights tirelessly for justice, dignity, and equality for all Americans. I'm thrilled she's joining the ticket and can't wait to call her my Vice President.

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Doing a quick bit of laundry. Hear loud scream. Run into kitchen terrified, expecting to see @Chas10Buttigieg in pool of blood. Am thereupon informed that @Lin_Manuel is following my husband, whose life is now complete.

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Americans should not be satisfied with the worst COVID outcomes in the developed world.

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Thanks to everyone for the kind birthday wishes today! Very much looking forward to the year ahead and the new era that begins tomorrow.

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On January 20th, we will have a new president whose first instinct is to unite—not divide. That moment can't come soon enough.

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“If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar.”

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When a president (who faked a disability in order to avoid serving) attacks a departed war hero, it’s for attention. We should honor the late Senator McCain, and also follow his example by focusing not on the behavior of the president but on the future of our country.

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If voting by mail is good enough for the president, it should be available to us all.

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God does not belong to a political party.

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After 9/11 we all said we were changed. That we were stronger and more united. That’s what “never forget” was about. Now, a president uses that dark day to incite his base against a member of Congress, as if for sport. As if we learned nothing that day about the workings of hate.

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Donald Trump wants to talk about literally anything besides his disastrous response to this pandemic.

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This is what a president sounds like. Truth. Decency. Focus. Compassion. Purpose. I can’t wait for Joe Biden to lead this country.

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Merry Christmas from our family to yours!

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Words have consequences, especially the words of a president and his allies. Today those consequences include violent rioters attacking our Capitol to overthrow the American democratic process. This must end, and democracy must prevail.

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It's almost unbelievable this has to be said, but a President @JoeBiden will not go silent when Putin puts a bounty on our troops.

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Such wisdom, such grace, and such moral clarity from Michelle Obama tonight. She is so right about the America we can, and must, be.

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I don’t expect Mike Pence to come around. Yet, it is still jarring that a man rooted in faith and scripture would punch the clock every day for a boss whose conduct flies in the face of every notion, liberal and conservative, of basic morality and decency.

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In 2016 they didn't even permit a hearing, let alone a vote. They have surrendered all standing ever again to speak of such things as "norms."

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In November, we will be the jury.

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A @JoeBiden presidency cannot come soon enough.

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It’s not too complicated this time. Are you better off than you were four years ago?

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One year ago I married the love of my life. I’m so thankful I found you, Chasten, and can’t wait to spend the rest of our life together.

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Today we have heard from an American majority ready for change, eager for something so much better than what we've been living with these last four years.

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We should abolish the death penalty in America.

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Why? Why??

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VP Pence does not wear a mask during Tuesday’s visit to the Mayo Clinic, which is requiring all patients and visitors to wear a face covering or mask in effort to slow the spread of coronavirus.

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You know it’s getting twisted when Ted Cruz decides to vindicate constitutional originalism by... amending the Constitution to overwrite the founders’ vision for how to set up the Supreme Court.

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The president’s confession yesterday is stunning. He has now openly admitted to an agenda of undermining America’s postal system in order to make it harder for Americans to vote.

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One month until it's President @JoeBiden and Vice President @KamalaHarris .

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The first rule of economics during a pandemic is you’ve got to fix the pandemic before the economy can get better. @JoeBiden understands this—but Donald Trump still does not.

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There are no do-overs. This moment will decide not just the next four years, but the next forty.

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