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Pete Buttigieg: “You don't have to grow up in a big city or consider yourself…”

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 1:02:21

So if you're watching, if you're watching this in Washington, look at how many people are in this gym. And you know better than I, the things you're organizing around are things that your neighbors care about too. You don't have to grow up in a big city or consider yourself liberal to believe that Medicaid ought to be expanded so that rural hospitals can stay in business. You don't have to be a card carrying Democrat to know that it's really bad for agriculture if fertilizer prices go through the roof because of a war we didn't need. (1:02:21–1:02:30)

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