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Pete Buttigieg: “We could clear that up with a constitutional amendment.”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 33:00

… in politics and spending money to manipulate the outcome of an election is the same thing as me giving a speech about my views. Money is speech. Corporations are people. We could clear that up with a constitutional amendment. I think we should. You're anti free speech. My good friend McDonald's has a lot of thoughts on regulation of fast food that I want to hear. (33:00–33:04)

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Asserts that a constitutional amendment could address the issue of corporate personhood in politics.

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