Ep. 340 — Pete Buttigieg (TV)

The Axe Files with David Axelrod

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4.6 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2019

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Pete Buttigieg, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate and mayor of South Bend, Indiana, joins David for a televised edition of The Axe Files on CNN. He makes the case for why his executive experience as mayor prepares him for the presidency, talks racial tensions in South Bend and his plan forward, what he learned from his military service in Afghanistan, why he waited until his thirties to come out as gay, and more. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Music
0:06.0	And now, from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN Audio, the Ax Files with
0:12.5	your host, David Axelrod.
0:15.9	You asked me what the most surprising story of this still emerging 2020 race for the
0:22.5	presidency has been so far, I'd have to say it's the emergence of Pete Buttigieg, the
0:29.8	37-year-old mayor of South Bend in Indiana, as a top tier candidate for the Democratic
0:35.4	nomination.
0:36.8	I sat down with Mayor Pete and South Bend this week for my Ax Files show on CNN that
0:42.8	aired tonight.
0:45.8	Mayor Pete Buttigieg, good to see you here in South Bend in the old Studebaker plant
0:57.2	where you announced your candidacy.
0:59.5	Thanks for having me on.
1:00.5	This has been quite a rocket ride for you in the last few weeks, standing on the stage
1:06.3	next to the former vice president presidential debate.
1:10.1	You just improbably turned in one of the biggest fundraising quarters in Democratic Party
1:17.5	history.
1:18.5	Do you ever step back and say, how the hell did this happen?
1:22.3	Yeah, there's not that much time to step back, but when I do, it is extraordinary.
1:27.1	Obviously, I wouldn't be doing this if I didn't believe we could win, believe in our
1:30.3	message and believe in the campaign.
1:32.4	But our plan was to have a slow burn to try to assert that we belonged in the race period
1:38.9	over the spring and into the summer and then hope to break out into debates.
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