L ocated next to a wastewater treatment plant, the River Raisin Bridge in Monroe, Michigan, isn’t photo-op material. The mud is deep and the puddles are enormous on a raw December morning. Still, camera crews and local politicians and union members gather as if Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is giving …
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Stephen Colbert has a star-studded list of guests slated for his live Late Show episodes tied to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago next week, with Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, and Pete Buttigieg all slated to appear on Monday through Wednesday next week. The show will be taped live at …
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Pete Buttigieg offered a dose of reality for viewers on Fox, pointing out the lies and “cult of personality” of Donald Trump. The Biden transportation secretary, when asked about President Joe Biden’s fitness for office, turned the question around and cast doubt on Trump’s fitness to serve. Fox News Sunday …
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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, a veteran of the Afghanistan War, was disgusted Sunday by a September 2019 comment that then-President Donald Trump made about a wounded Army captain, as reported Thursday in The Atlantic. Trump, in the same vein as his 2015 declaration that Vietnam veteran and prisoner of war …
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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Sunday commented on the “strangeness” of a recent ad by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis‘ campaign targeting 2024 rival candidate Donald Trump, claiming the former president “did more than any other Republican to celebrate” pride month. The ad, which begins by citing Trump’s 2016 Republican National …
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Tonight’s Saturday Night Live cold open centered on C-SPAN coverage of former president Trump’s visit to the people of East Palestine, Ohio, following a train derailment that unleashed toxic waste on the town. James Austin Johnson’s Trump, flanked by actual firemen from East Palestine, announced, “You know, earlier today, a …
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The Twitter account for the West Texas division of U.S. Customs and Border Protection retweeted posts by former Trump advisor and notorious immigration opponent Stephen Miller. In the tweets shared on Saturday and reported by The Daily Beast, Miller claims that “violent criminals lay waste to our communities undisturbed” and …
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Selena Gomez, Jeff Tweedy, Stacey Abrams, Bernie Sanders and more will participate in Rolling Stone’s new get-out-the-vote music and conversation series, “Fridays for Unity.” The two-part virtual event will take place October 16th and 30th and feature a mix of unique conversations, musical performances and special guest appearances. Each event …
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Both Democratic presidential hopefuls Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Tom Steyer could not name the president of Mexicoduring a Telemundo interview in Nevada. But one candidate, former South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg, who was also interviewed by Telemundo’s Guadalupe Venegas, did recall the name of President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador. “Yeah, …
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When Elizabeth Warren officially entered the presidential race back in February, she made a controversial decision, one that ultimately caused her finance director to quit in protest: She swore off high-dollar fundraisers. Ten months later, that decision gave Warren some high ground when, on the debate stage in California, she …
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