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Pete Buttigieg: “In a notionally 50-50 country, we actually have a great…”

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

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Pete Buttigieg at the 2026 Global Progress Action Summit - 5/9/2026

Published | Video Starts at 07:06

… insurance coverage, that will deliver things like paid family leave, all of which by the way, are a number, a set of things that command 2 to 1 support. So In a notionally 50-50 country, we actually have a great number of super majority policies that importantly the center and the center left and the left agree on and that the right is against. clarifying battles around that I think are going to be very important in government because we will either manage to get our way because even the Republicans can't stop it, or we will make clear who's for and who's against things going into 2028. (07:06–07:18)

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