Mayor Pete’s Plan to Beat Trump

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🗓️ 3 April 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Can an openly gay war-veteran millennial become president in 2020?

This week’s guest is presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg, the 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, vying for a shot in a crowded Democratic field.

In front of a sold-out crowd at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco last week, Mayor Pete, as he’s known to his constituents, had a candid conversation with Mother Jones Editor-in-Chief Clara Jeffery, in which he shared his plans to bring the rigor of running a small Rust Belt town to the White House.

But first, he needs to beat President Donald Trump—and Mayor Pete says he knows how.

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0:00.0	This is the Mother Jones Podcast.
0:03.0	I'm Jamila King in New York.
0:05.0	On today's show,
0:12.0	on today's show, the Mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and Presidential Hopeful, Pete Bouderedge,
0:20.0	can an openly gay millennial war veteran leap from leading a rust belt city of just 100,000 to the White House?
0:29.0	Mayor Pete says he knows how to beat Trump.
0:31.0	No investigation is going to turn up some piece of
0:35.4	evidence that's going to suddenly show us that the president's not a great guy
0:38.8	because a lot of the people who voted for this president already know he's not a
0:42.4	great guy.
0:43.1	And he shares some of the challenges he faced growing up gay in Indiana.
0:47.3	You could either be out or you could be in office in Indiana.
0:50.4	You could not be both.
0:51.3	As well as his favorite Norwegian TV show.
0:54.0	Political military thriller set in the not too distant future
0:57.8	called Occupy.
0:58.6	Has anybody seen this on Netflix?
1:00.2	Really good, right?
1:00.9	Mother Jones, in conversation with Mayor of the Moment,
1:04.7	Pete Bouded Edge.
1:05.7	A message is something that makes sense no matter who you're running against.
1:08.6	That's today's show.
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