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.