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Pete Buttigieg: “I think a constitutional amendment to get money out of…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 58:53

Then again, it was no radical, but rather Indiana's own Birch by a couple generations ago, who led the way towards some of the last substantive amendments to the Constitution that we had. Like the voting age and coming this close on the era. I think a constitutional amendment to get money out of politics is appropriate. I think most Americans want it, and I think we should strive for it, even if it takes a decade or two to get done, just to take one example. (58:53–58:57)

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