Pete Buttigieg: “Companies that were showing me their leadership two years…”

“So this last visit was one I was really looking forward to compared to the first. But what was extraordinary was to see just how much the same Companies that were showing me their leadership two years ago in electric vehicles... building battery factories in Glendale, Kentucky and DeSoto, Kansas and St. Joseph County, Indiana. and creating jobs, empowering the future and getting ready to compete and innovate and stay a step ahead in a way that Studebaker fatally did not do in the 1960s and our whole region paid the price.” (52:49–53:04)

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