Buttigieg gives a strident anti-Trump message in Iowa and shows signs that he's grown up

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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.

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00:00I mean, look, I take comfort in the fact that the president is unpopular.

00:20The fact, by the way, that you might not know, not feel, if you believe some of the coverage

00:25on the internet, the president is unpopular, but that doesn't mean my side wins.

00:32Democrats do not have the best brand around here in a lot of places.

00:37There's a lot of reasons for that, some fair, some unfair.

00:41I think the most important thing is that we connect everything we believe, everything we say, everything we do to everyday life.

00:49I'm convinced the only reason we have politics, the only reason politics is worth being involved in,

00:54is because of how every decision that happens in a big white building in Washington, D.C.,

00:59finds its way into our criminal lives.

01:01And nobody knows that better than people who have been sent into war on the orders of people who sent those big white buildings.

01:09But we've got to show that we're about that, and not about what seem like these incredibly abstract things.

01:17We've got to meet people where they are.

01:19I consider it important to make clear some things that were going right in the economy, for example.

01:31But there were a lot of things that weren't this last time around.

01:35And if someone's upset, anybody's ever been married?

01:38No.

01:40If someone you love is upset, and your response is,

01:44you shouldn't be upset, you should be happy.

01:47Anybody ever try that?

01:49How'd that go over?

01:50That does not mean people where they are.

01:52People are upset for a reason.

01:54We've got to have that dialogue.

01:56There you go.

01:57Catch you.

01:59Thank you for all you're doing.

02:01Thank you for all you're doing.

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