Transcripts For CSPAN Campaign 2020 Pete Buttigieg Campaigns

CSPAN Campaign 2020 Pete Buttigieg Campaigns In New Hampshire July 13, 2024

Mayor buttigieg sounds like we are ready for that . [cheering] mayor buttigieg i think it cannot come soon enough. It is going to happen one way or the other. It will be a relief when it does. Putting the chaos behind us. Putting the corruption behind us. Putting the tweets behind us. [laughter] mayor buttigieg but honestly, the reason i am asking you to picture this is not just to give us something to look forward to. The country will be better off only no longer have a divider occupying the oval office. That is beginning of the work that must come next. If you could picture what it will be like on this in this country on that day, the sun will come up in the United States that is even more divided than we are right now. Even more polarized, even more torn up over politics. With everything we have been through, with everything we are about to go through, that day our country will be exhausted from fighting, and more in need of unity than ever. And yet, Something Else is also going to be true that day, which is the problems we are up against as a country will be more severe. None of the issues are taking a vacation for the impeachment process of the Trump Presidency. We are still going to be dealing with a climate that is approaching the point of no return. We will still be living in an economy where the numbers on a page go up, the stock market goes up and our lives dont necessarily get any better because half of america does not see that benefit. We will still be living with a crisis of gun violence that has students on active shooter drills and these two things will be troop. The need for bold action and to do for something, about these emergencies, and the need to figure out a way to do it that can bring the American People together. I am running to be the president who could stand that day when a Trump Presidency is finally behind us. Pick up the pieces and guide us towards a future where we are dealing with those problems together because the only way to get it done is to get it. That is why i am seeking the presidency. [applause] mayor buttigieg i will be honest, we were not expecting over 1000 people to join us today. [cheering] mayor buttigieg last time i came out they said we had 1400 people, but that is not too big for this to be a conversation. We have gathered up questions from members of the audience and i will ask you as our moderator, to welcome back to the stage, former mayor sue francis, who will guide our discussion. [applause] as the mayor just said, what a tremendous crowd, and a large crowd. In my role as a paramedic and public servant, i want to remind everybody if you need to exit the building, there are four exits. Two on the side into and back, now lets proceed. Mayor buttigieg thats the kind of pragmatic mentality mayors bring to the table. I love it. The famous fishbowl. Ok, it says what is your plan for combating Climate Change . Mayor buttigieg great question. If that came from you, i am guessing a few folks came in with that on your mind. This is the defining challenge of our time, nationally and globally. Its here. It went from a theory, to her prediction, to an observation, to an emergency. Its happening to every community in different ways. This is not just for the north polar on the coast. Mild community, i have read to activate our Emergency Operation center twice to deal with floods that are happening once every thousand years and they came less than two years apart. We will be judged for whether we solve the problem. I have a plan starting with aggressive action to doubled in mono Renewable Energy on the grid by 2025. Which we need to do, then we have to get transportation. We could do light vehicles by 2030. Carbon neutral by 2040 and industry by 2050 because we need to be a Carbon Neutral economy by 2050, or it will be too late. [applause] mayor buttigieg let me add to that a little bit. Every candidate ought to have a plan to get us there by 2050, and many candidates do. The real question is, how will we get it done . All these plans will be multiplied by zero. One thing i think that is very important is that we recruit the energies and enlist the capacities of every american to be part of the solution. I and to get about this from the perspective of my hometown. An auto worker ought to know how they fit among the 3 million net new jobs we will create what we tackle Climate Change. I want to make sure a person that is cultivating the coin in soybean fields understands agriculture has to be a huge part of the solution. Knowing what we know about soil management, never forget that the original carbon rendering technology is called plants. American agriculture can lead the way on this. As we do that we have to invite people who may be have been made to feel like accepting Climate Science would be a defeat for them personally and let them know that we need them in order to be part of the solution so we can rise nationally and get something done. Why do quite smart, quite acceptable candidates shoot themselves in the foot i making outrageous promises about single issues . [laughter] mayor buttigieg if you would rather remain anonymous, that is ok. Probably not my place to weigh in on any other candidate, but i will tell you this, its really important to make promises that we can keep. Its really important to offer things that can get done. Dont get me wrong, we are not watering down our values. What i am proposing we do to health care, for example, will be the biggest thing done to health care in my lifetime. Since medicare itself we have not done something as big as what i am proposing we do to make sure that every american gets coverage. And there will be some was they, and lest you go to the extreme, that does not count. This bid, pull generational reform is not enough. We are seeing that on a lot of individual issues. The important thing is, that is not needed in order to solve the problem. We can solve the problem and hold together a new american majority majority to get this done. If we can unify the American People again, we will not get everyone to agree. If we can hold it together, the next presidency will be the beginning of a decades long era of progress in the country. The likes of which we have not seen in my lifetime. Dont let anyone tell you that wanting to unify the American People means its off. Its important to find the problems without alienating half of the American People. Its an issue for governing. You get to washington and you have to keep those promises you made in places like New Hampshire. If we hold that american majority together, that is what we will do, that is what i will do as your president. [applause] how do you plan to fight the nra and support of common sense gun regulations . Mayor buttigieg so, the nra does not speak for most americans. It does not even speak for most gun owners. The vast majority, even of gun owners and of republicans believe that we should at least be doing universal background checks. There is no good argument why you would not want universal background checks and closing loopholes. Right now if the background check comes back late, they just give you the gun. Can you imagine in a hiring process if the background check came in late and they said, just hire them anyways. You have to actually keep people safe. This is a safety issue. We have the red flag laws that disarm domestic users and identify risks. It helps us deal with half the crisis of gun violence, which is suicide. Something that should be on our hearts and minds and calls out for action. [applause] mayor buttigieg its time to confront the nra with the types of weaponry i try not to go to afghanistan, do not belong to an American School and should not be sold for profit in the United States of america. [cheering] mayor buttigieg we have two things going for us in the fight against the nra. The first is that the American People are with us. There is an american majority to do more than them we have done in my lifetime. The second thing i think that will lead to changes the Generational Alliance i see mobilizing to get it done. You look at the march of our lives, students in the streets asking a question that commands an answer. What are you doing to keep me safe . When somebody not yet old enough to vote asks that question of anyone in office, of any adult, i think a voice goes off in the mind of any right thinking adult saying, do let do not let this person down. [applause] mayor buttigieg and i think that helps to explain why this moment is very different than what we saw any previous area era where we saw young people marching against their parents. This time i am seeing on issues like gun violence and climate, young people leading the way, marching in the streets and i see bear parents and grandparents cheering them on. That is the kind of Generational Alliance that will change the politics of this country. [applause] ok. I am so glad i wore my glasses today. Given the current president s immature and dangerous personality. Are you worried about how he could compromise the security of our nation after he is removed from office . Mayor buttigieg given the way he has compromise the security of our nation before he has been removed from office is something to be worried about. Helps if i can look right at you. I am very concerned about this. You have a president who just wont put this country first. We sought again the other day, it mightve gotten lost in the news because so many things are happening at once, but the president confessed in Court Documents that you legally misdirecting funds that were supposed to go to charity for veterans. There is no sense of commitment to uniform and flag. There is just this corrupt selfpreservation going on. But, thats what our constitution is for and its what elections are for. Washington is not always known for delivering the right answer, which is why even though the impeachment process much dust much must take place, it may not lead to his removal. The good news is, if congress does not remove him, we will. That is what elections are for and that is what we will get done. [applause] if elected president , which specific steps would you take to strengthen democratic guardrails and rebuild confidence in american democracy . Mayor buttigieg great question. Right here . All right. Democratic reform question, my favorite kind. Our democracy is in trouble and i have shared some of the things i believe needs to be done. There are things we could do right away. You look at hr one, the prodemocracy, anticorruption bill the house passed. Many good bills, it went to Mitch Mcconnell and senate and died there. It is full of things that would make a difference on removing the role of dark money in politics. Making sure its easier to vote, making election day a holiday. Same gabled to registration, early votes. These will make our democracy more democratic. I think we should contemplate reforms to the Supreme Court, because we cannot go on with the court being a nakedly reviewed institution. In need to be a serious national process. And a country that has changed things many times and what we expect from the court, we have to expect it cannot be a Political Institution and has to stand apart. That is an important part of our democracy. [applause] mayor buttigieg we need a lot a reforms on the way our elections are run. We cannot allow that to happen in the future. Some might take constitutional reform. This is the problem with citizens united. It may take constitutional action to establish that we do not believe that an corporation has the same political soul and rights as a human being. If thats what it will take, that is why the founders gave us the option of a constitutional amendment. Dont tell me and a country that change the constitution so you cannot buy a beer, and then changed its mind, that we cannot interchange the option of major constitutional reform to secure our democracy for the centuries to come. [applause] this is from and he is asking dear mayor, would you support eliminating senate rule for filibuster in order to pass a progressive legislation . Mayor buttigieg great question. Are you here . Hello. The answer is yes, i would. The reason is not something to do lightly, but we have seen the way the filibuster has been abused. We have seen a senate that is no longer operating in good faith. Do you remember when Mitch Mcconnell said it was a matter of principle that in an Election Year you can never vote on a Supreme Court nominee. That is what he believes deep in his heart in 2016. Then somebody asked him in 2020 if there were a nominee would you vote and he said yes. Which means they are not even pretending. When it comes to some of these norms that have outlived our usefulness, i believe it is time for a change. Harry reid, who is someone who honors the tradition of the senate, has said that this needs to be done. I believe that it needs to be done. Not just to get progressive legislation, but to make sure the senate is more responsive to our democracy. It cannot just be a place where good ideas go to die. Yes, it should be a moderating influence, but now it has become a total brick wall. Which is one reason why it might be a good idea to nominate a veteran from the industrial midwest to see to it that Mitch Mcconnell is no longer the majority leader of the senate in the first place. [cheers and applause] we have a question from jonathan. How can universal health care be obtained while the Insurance Industry and forprofit health care lead the population . Jonathan. Mayor buttigieg the Insurance Industry is fighting my plan because they dont want the competition. They like things the way they are but it is not working. Yes, we had tremendous progress with the Affordable Care act. Things i care about have been saved by the Affordable Care act, but we continue to have the problem of people who are uninsured and underinsured. The premiums are too high or the copay is out of control. Even people who thought they were taken care of, gets a surprise bill and wind up being wrecked financially by whats happening. Which is why we have to deal with the cost of health care in addition to delivering universal health care. We have to confront the cost of prescription drugs. On my watch we will not allow companies to get outpatients with price increases that are not based on the necessity or research. They are doing it because we can and we need the power to enforce against that. [applause] mayor buttigieg on the hospital side, we need to ensure that surprise billing is a thing of the past. We have a radically different prices for the same procedure just based on what kind of plan your on. We have a problem and thats why there needs to be more transparency and a cap for outofnetwork tilling. As for the insurers themselves, here is what will happen when there is medicare for all who want it. We will have a superior plan that will have caps on its cost. Even if youre outside of the regular subsidy window, never more than a. 5 of your income can going to premiums. I think it will be the best plan. That means that the private insurers will have to shape up and do better, or they have to go out of business. Frankly, i dont care which, as long as you get coverage. I suspect our plan will be the best for everyone. If we are right, more and more people will opt in until it becomes the singlepayer. If we are wrong, at least in the case of your family, maybe you got a good deal through your union negotiations, you took concessions on wages to get that good plan, then we will be really glad we did not kick you off. We will give you the choice. When americans are empowered to vote and live better public alternative, than the private plans will have to out can p it or go out of business. I am ok with either outcome is on this you get quality affordable household coverage. One more question. I feel the great pressure here. We dont have a name on the back. How are the democrats going to agree not to disagree . [laughter] mayor buttigieg interesting. Are you here . Here is what you can tell her. We are going to disagree on some stuff. First of all, our values are the same. We are together on probably 80 of what to do. Part of what happens in the primary as we hash out that other 20 . We decide which better, medicare for all who want it or medicare. Whats better is college for students are making it free for everyone, even a child for a millionaire or a billionaire. These are important policy disagreements. They are honest contexts over policy. At the end of the day, the 25 or so people running for president. The 24 mood do not get to be the nominee have to step up and rally immediately around the one who does because we know what were up against when it comes to this white house and we are one team. [applause] mayor buttigieg one more big thank you to sue francis. Thank you for everyone for coming out and let select our next president of the United States. Mayor pete who to judge. Mayor pete buttigieg. Mayor buttigieg thank you very much. [applause] mayor buttigieg are you ready to help us win this . [cheering] mayor buttigieg are you ready to turn the page from the Trump Administration and build that new future . Can i count on you to tell your friend so that we win New Hampshire . I think you will make me the next president of the United States. I will work to make you proud and we will make history together. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. [indiscernible conversations] thank you so much. That was brilliant. Shes running the race today. This is the first that we started with the renovation here in franklin. The mayor has been overseeing it for four or five years. We were one of the first. We have been here for four to five years. I am a native. This is our 1878 building. We have a cafe. We do coffee, we do all

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