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Pete Buttigieg: “Soldiers and airmen and Marines and sailors who were doing a…”

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

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Pete Takes Questions, Live from Tulsa

Published | Video Starts at 28:47

Right. And I worry about what's going to happen to folks. I mean, it's already happened as the official policy of this country, you know, that people who Soldiers and airmen and Marines and sailors who were doing a good job lost their job for reasons that had nothing to do with their job performance, just because their identity was disapproved of by the ideology of this administration. That is wrong. People know that's wrong. So, of course, what we need is political leadership that is against discrimination. (28:47–29:06)

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Asserts that military personnel lost their jobs due to identity-based discrimination under the current administration.

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