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Pete Buttigieg: “Somebody, there's already a bridge. There's the old bridge…”

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

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Pete Buttigieg on the Gordie Howe International Bridge | 2026 Mackinac Policy Conference #MPC26

Published | Video Starts at 00:53

But corruption isn't just bad because it's morally bad, it's bad because it winds up making us all worse off. Let's be super clear about what happened. Somebody, there's already a bridge. There's the old bridge. Someone makes a lot of money off that old bridge being the only bridge. That person put a million bucks into a pro Trump super PAC and got ahold of Howard Lutnick, the Commerce Secretary. And I don't know what else happened. (00:53–01:00)

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Asserts that someone profits from the old bridge being the only bridge.

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