“You just have to go to voters with what you think you can do for them. Politics is about the results we can get for people and not about these other things.” — Pete Buttigieg
Former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg dropped a bombshell on Democrats last week, one lost in the chaotic news cycle following Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
He was responding to a passage in former Vice President Kamala Harris’ forthcoming book “107 Days” in which she said Buttigieg was her first choice for a running mate and “would have been an ideal partner — if I were a straight white man.”
“My experience in politics has been that the way that you earn trust with voters is based mostly on what they think you’re going to do for their lives, not on categories,” Buttigieg said before a ribbon cutting ceremony at the Monroe County Democratic Party headquarters in Indiana, according to Politico.
Conservatives have been decrying identity politics for years, and liberals have been just as vigorously espousing them as key to winning races.
Buttigieg cited former President Barack Obama winning the state in 2008 and his own two terms as mayor of South Bend, Indiana, as evidence of his approach.
