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Pete Buttigieg: “Most Americans do not believe that somebody should be…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 28:18

… they want to cut Medicaid or why they think taxes ought to be cut for billionaires. So they want to talk about this. But it remains the case that American, Most Americans do not believe that somebody should be discriminated against, let alone harmed because they are transgender or gay. or anything else. That's most of us. Don't let them make you feel like that's some fringe position. Right. And I worry about what's going to happen to folks. (28:18–28:28)

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Asserts that the majority of Americans oppose discrimination against transgender or gay individuals.

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