Pete Buttigieg tells SC voters 2020 presidential race is about justice

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Buttigieg, the youngest of the 15 announced 2020 Democratic candidates at age 37, attracted a large millennial crowd to hear him speak about reversing the nation’s anger by opening opportunities. They include offering health insurance for all, allowing workers to unionize and ending laws that suppress voting.

“Democracy is on the ballot in 2020,” he said. Buttigieg said Democrats need more younger leaders who understand racial and social justice as well as more leaders from Republican-dominated states. “We cannot continue to be regarded as a party that is only for the deepest blue communities,” he said. “There is written nowhere that a state like South Carolina or Indiana or anywhere else has to be conservative forever.”

Buttigieg, who took military training in Columbia before deploying to Afghanistan with the Navy Reserve, said Republicans are not willing to tackle the security issues caused by climate change, computer hackers and white nationalists. “White nationalism is a deadly threat that has claimed lives as far away as New Zealand and as close to home as Charleston,” he said. “So let’s do something about that.”

Corey Collins, a biology major at the University of South Carolina who lives in Summerville, came to see Buttigieg a day after attending a presidential campaign event for former Texas congressman Beto O’Rourke on campus. Collins said both candidates were charismatic, but Buttigieg provided more depth on issues such as expanding the number of justice on the Supreme Court.

“Beto is great and he knows how to work a crowd, but I didn’t take much away from what his plans are,” Collins said. “Whereas with Pete and everything I have heard him say, he specifically addresses what he would do and why.”

https://www.postandcourier.com/politics/pete-buttigieg-tells-sc-voters-presidential-race-is-about-justice/article_2e4d015a-4d82-11e9-854e-071b072ed647.html

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

1. The specificity Mayor Pete gives, as compared to Beto, is why I like him more with each passing day.

Bernie & Elizabeth 2020!!!
Welcome to the revolution!!!

[Moostache]

2. I cannot remember the last time a politician impressed me this much MORE every new story I see...

He is a serious candidate and I believe the debate stage is going to make him a party superstar and give his bid a HUGE boost.
This is what I want in my president, and while I am firmly behind our party nominee period, I am excited by Mayor Pete much more than other candidates for sure.

[AlexSFCA]

3. I am obsessed with him!!

And Beto is so yesterday.