‘A Better Politics’: The Biggest Moments From Pete Buttigieg’s 2024 DNC Speech

TIME

Pete Buttigieg, the U.S. Transportation Secretary and former mayor of South Bend, has become one of the Democratic Party’s most relied upon messengers on cable news and late-night television. And on Tuesday night, he continued to show why.

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00:00Choosing a guy like J.D. Vance to be America's next vice president sends a message, and the

00:18message is that they are doubling down on negativity and grievance, committing to a

00:24concept of campaigning best summed up in one word, darkness.

00:30Darkness is what they are selling.

00:33The thing is, I just don't believe that America today is in the market for darkness.

00:43I believe America is ready for a better kind of politics.

00:48Yes, politics at its worst can be ugly, crushing, demeaning, but it doesn't have to be.

00:56At its best, politics can be empowering, uplifting.

01:01It can even be a kind of soul craft, the existence of my family.

01:06It's just one example of something that was literally impossible as recently as 25

01:14years ago when an anxious teenager growing up in Indiana wondered if he would ever find

01:19belonging in this world.

01:29This kind of life went from impossible to possible, from possible to real, from real

01:35to almost ordinary in less than half a lifetime.

01:43We get to choose our president.

01:45We get to choose our policies, but most of all, we will choose a better politics, a politics

01:53that calls us to our better selves and offers us a better every day.

02:00That is what Kamala Harris and Tim Walz represent.

02:04That is what Democrats represent.

02:06That is what awaits us when America decides to end Trump's politics of darkness once and

02:12for all.

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