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Pete Buttigieg: “I disagree that money on campaigns counts as the same as…”

Featuring: Pete Buttigieg, Democratic | Former Secretary of Transportation, Former Mayor of South Bend | National

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Published | Video Starts at 1:19:19

Yeah. No, it's exhausting to have like a two year presidential cycle or a permanent congressional cycle. Now the challenge there obviously is we've, we've decided, I disagree that money on campaigns counts as the same as speech, but I believe that campaigning is speech. So it's very hard to find a way to restrict that that would be fair in a way that Singapore would do because they don't care about free speech as much as you and I might. (1:19:19–1:19:26)

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Asserts a personal disagreement with the idea that campaign money equates to free speech.

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