Tag Archives: Pete Buttigieg

LIVE VIDEO: Joe Biden Swears In Pete Buttigieg

CBS News reports: President Biden on Wednesday morning is set to swear in Pete Buttigieg as transportation secretary, making the former South Bend, Ind., mayor the nation’s first openly LGBTQ Cabinet secretary. The Senate confirmed Buttigieg on Tuesday by 86-13 vote. Biden is scheduled to hold the ceremony at 9:30 a.m. 

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UPDATE: Buttigieg Confirmed With 13 GOP No Votes

ABC News reports: The Senate is poised to approve Pete Buttigieg to be transportation secretary, the first openly gay person ever confirmed to a Cabinet post, tasked with advancing President Joe Biden’s wide-ranging agenda of rebuilding the nation’s infrastructure and fighting climate change. Buttigieg’s nomination was set for a final vote Tuesday in the full Senate, after the 39-year-old former …

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UPDATE: Senate Panel Advances Buttigieg In 21-3 Vote

The Washington Post reports: The Senate Commerce Committee is scheduled to meet Wednesday morning to decide whether to give a thumbs-up to Pete Buttigieg’s nomination as President Biden’s secretary of transportation. Buttigieg sat for a friendly 2 1/2 hour hearing before the committee last week, delivering a wide-ranging performance that impressed Republicans and Democrats alike. Buttigieg, 39, stands to become …

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LIVE VIDEO: Buttigieg Testifies At Confirmation Hearing

CBS News reports: A Senate committee will hold confirmation hearings Thursday on Pete Buttigieg, President Joe Biden’s pick to lead the Transportation Department. Buttigieg is expected to outline his vision to uphold the safety of travelers, improve the nation’s infrastructure system and fulfill Mr. Biden’s infrastructure goals amid the COVID-19 pandemic. If confirmed, Buttigieg would oversee a department that requested …

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Pete Buttigieg’s Confirmation Hearing Set For Thursday

The Hill reports: Former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s confirmation hearing for the role of Transportation secretary will be held Thursday. Just a day after President-elect Joe Biden is slated for inauguration, Buttigieg will face questions from members of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. If he’s approved, Buttigieg will be the first openly gay Cabinet secretary …

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LIVE VIDEO: Biden Intros Cabinet Nominee Buttigieg

CBS News reports: President-elect Joe Biden on Wednesday will formally introduce Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, who competed against him for the Democratic presidential nomination, as his nominee to lead the Department of Transportation. The president-elect’s transition team announced Tuesday that Mr. Biden tapped Buttigieg, 38, to helm the department, which is responsible for overseeing the …

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Biden To Name Buttigieg As Transportation Secretary

The Washington Post reports: President-elect Joe Biden will nominate Pete Buttigieg to be his secretary of transportation, elevating the onetime rival to a key role in the incoming administration’s push to rebuild American infrastructure and the economy, according to three people familiar with the decision. The former mayor of South Bend, Ind., dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed …

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CNN: Buttigieg May Get Transportation Secretary Post

CNN reports: Pete Buttigieg is emerging as a leading contender to be Joe Biden’s Transportation secretary, multiple sources familiar with the transition’s deliberations tell CNN. Discussions about the transportation job are fluid and ongoing. Multiple Democrats have also been considered for the post, including former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo. …

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Axios: Pete Buttigieg Up For Ambassador To China

Axios reports: President-elect Joe Biden is considering a high-profile ambassadorship for Pete Buttigieg, possibly sending him to China, people familiar with the matter tell Axios. Why it matters: The 38-year-old former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, whom Biden has compared to his late son, Beau, played a key role in Biden’s nomination. Letting him deepen his foreign policy chops could …

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Pete Buttigieg: My Marriage Might Depend On What’s About To Happen In Senate With Amy Coney Barrett

The Guardian reports: Speaking on Fox News Sunday, Pete Buttigieg, who married his husband Chasten in 2018, indicated that the court’s 2015 decision that made same-sex marriage legal was among a number of rulings a strong conservative majority could look to overturn. Republicans are seeking to seat Barrett before the 3 November general election. The Senate judiciary committee will vote …

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Buttigieg Drops Truth Bomb On Fox: Why Does Pence Want To Run With Someone Caught With A Porn Star?

Last night Fox News hosts tried to corner Pete Buttigieg on policy differences between Kamala Harris and Joe Biden. It did not go well. “Well, there’s a classic parlor game of trying to find a little bit of daylight between running mates,” Buttigieg replied. “If people want to play that game, we could look into why an evangelical Christian like …

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Mayor Pete Role-Plays As Pence In Harris Debate Prep

Bloomberg News reports: Kamala Harris’s team is working to manage public expectations that her upcoming debate with Vice President Mike Pence will present her with an easy opponent, despite her withering attacks on Democratic rivals in earlier presidential primary debates. As the Democratic vice-presidential nominee readies for the face-off on Oct. 7 in Salt Lake City, her team has cast …

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Pete Buttigieg Joins Joe Biden’s Transition Team

The Hill reports: Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden added several former Obama administration officials as well as former South Bend, Ind. mayor and presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg to his transition team. According to multiple media outlets, former National Security advisor Susan Rice and former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates are joining the transition team. New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham …

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Buttigieg To Launch Podcast: “The Deciding Decade”

South Bend’s ABC News affiliate reports: Former South Bend Mayor and presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg is launching a podcast, he announced on Wednesday. The new podcast will be called “The Deciding Decade” and will be released by iHeartMedia. “We know that this, the first year of the 2020s, has been one of chaos and anguish,” Buttigieg said in the announcement …

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Pete Buttigieg Displays Wedding Ring In Biden Tribute

The South Bend Tribune reports: Former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, pointing to his own experience as an openly gay Afghanistan war veteran and presidential candidate, touted Democratic nominee Joe Biden Thursday night as someone who would help more Americans feel like they “belong.” Underscoring that theme of belonging, Buttigieg addressed the virtual Democratic National Convention from LangLab, the South …

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LIVE VIDEO: Biden Rallies With Klobuchar And Buttigieg

CBS News reports: Former Vice President Joe Biden is bringing some fresh support to his campaign rally at 7:30 p.m. at Gilley’s Dallas Monday. Amy Klobuchar, who ended her Democratic presidential campaign on Monday, and Pete Buttigieg, who ended his on Sunday, plan to endorse rival Joe Biden in an effort to unify moderate voters behind the former vice president’s …

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Pete Buttigieg To Endorse Joe Biden In Dallas Tonight

The Dallas Morning News reports: Sen. Amy Klobuchar abruptly quit the presidential race on Monday and threw her support to Joe Biden, as centrist Democrats began banding together in an effort to stop Sen. Bernie Sanders. She will join Biden in Dallas on Monday night for a rally at Gilley’s honkytonk on the eve of Super Tuesday, as the former …

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Limbaugh: Buttigieg “Got Away With” Kissing Chasten

“So, you know what happened in there in this meeting, in this phone call. They got Mayor Pete in there, and they told him, man, your future is bright. Look at what you — you laid down out there that you’re gay. You’ve got your husband, you’re getting — kissing him on the stage. You get away with it. Everything’s …

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Trump: Dems Made Buttigieg Drop Out To Hurt Sanders

The Atlantic reports: Not so long ago, Donald Trump seemed obsessed with just one of the Democrats vying to replace him: Joe Biden. Over the past year, as the former vice president became the front-runner, Trump’s campaign spent about $270,000 on Facebook ads targeting Biden—more than it spent against other top candidates. Then Biden began to collapse and Bernie Sanders …

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Breaking: Pete Buttigieg Ends Historic White House Bid

The New York Times reports: Pete Buttigieg, the former small-city Indiana mayor and first openly gay major presidential candidate, has decided to quit the Democratic race, a person briefed on Mr. Buttigieg’s plans said on Sunday, following a crushing loss in the South Carolina primary where his poor performance with black Democrats signaled an inability to build a broad coalition …

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