(14 May 2025)
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa – 13 May 2025
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Pete Buttigieg, Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation:
"I mean, look, I take comfort in the fact that the president is unpopular. But there was a fact, by the way, that you might not know, not feel, if you believe some coverage of the internet, the President’s unpopular, but that doesn’t mean my side wins. Democrats do not have the best brand around here and a lot of places. There’s a lot reasons for that, some fair, some unfair. I think the most important thing is that we connect everything we believe, everything we say, everything that we do to everyday life. I’m convinced that the only reason we have politics, the only other reason politics is worth being involved in, is because of how every decision that happens in the big white building in Washington D.C. finds its way into our everyday lives. And nobody knows that better than people who have been sent into war on the orders of people who sit in those big white buildings. But we’ve got to show that we’re about that and not about what seem like these incredibly abstract things. We’ve got meet people where they are."
2. Mid of Buttigieg posing for photos with supporters
STORYLINE:
Pete Buttigieg returned to Iowa on Tuesday with some subtle and not-so-subtle messages about what’s changed since he ran in the state’s 2020 Democratic presidential caucuses.
Buttigieg gave a strident critique of President Donald Trump’s administration while demanding Democrats make their agenda clear and reach out to people who disagree with them.
"The President’s unpopular, but that doesn’t mean my side wins. Democrats do not have the best brand around here and a lot of places," said the former U.S. Secretary of Transportation.
"There’s a lot reasons for that, some fair, some unfair," he told an audience of more than 1,000 in Cedar Rapids, his first public political appearance since leaving the Biden administration in January.
It was a return to where Buttigieg emerged as a national political figure six years ago, when the millennial former South Bend mayor rose among a class of better-known Democrats to finish atop the Iowa Democratic Party’s 2020 presidential caucuses.
The combination rally and policy chat toggled between questions about the future of the Democratic Party, both nationally and in Iowa, after three consecutive elections where Donald Trump has carried the once-competitive swing state.
Buttigieg acknowledged Democrats need to revisit some of their policy principles without naming any.
A number of other potential 2028 contenders are traveling the country in the early days of the second Trump administration.
AP video shot by Tom Beaumont
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