Buttigieg. Welcome. Good to see you. How you doing . Thank you. The crowd loves you we can see. They loved you in indiana. And loved you in iowa and new hampshire. You ran neck in neck with senator sanders there. He pulled away in nevada. Tomorrow night on the debate stage youll have the chance to stop his momentum. How are you going to do that . By making the case for how we will defeat donald trump. I believe in a politics that brings as many people in as possible. I have believe in calling people into the tent not calling them names online. And its going to be more important than ever that we build a coalition that can invite people not just fellow die hard democrats. But independents. Im seeing future former republicans who are not going to agree on me with everything but disgusted in the white house. You dont have to be a liberal democrat to have trouble looking your kids in the eye and explaining this president. In order to do any of that we have to be building a politics about that inclusive victory, not a rigid ideology. If we have had an election america cannot afford to lose its this one. Thats the case ill be making. Most democrats are looking for a different answer than what senator sanders is offering. I have to be honest. You are being polite. You said hes polarizing and inflexible. But you said that he was toxic, kbi divisive and polarizing i should say. You dont believe that . I stand by everything i have said. I respect senator sanders. I enjoy knowing him. The reality is the politics hes offering is if you dont agree with me 100 you dont belong on my side. Its about whose help you reject. We have such Terrible Division from the white house, it doesnt make sense to match it with a different form of division. We see that in the tone and tenor in his campaign and supporters. He called your critique total nonsense. Im sure he did. Hes wrong. Look, theres two fundamentally different ideas about how were going to deliver the change we need and how were going to beat this president. Mine is about drawing people in. Not beating people over the head and telling them you dont agree with me on everything. You dont want to go to this extreme you dont belong in this movement. Its not how i see defeating donald trump. Lets move on now. Im bringing in a history professor at the college of charleston. Shes undecided. Good evening. As a president ial candidate, why should people of color, women and especially women of color like myself trust you. What steps have you taken to truly understand the systemic forces that work against these people on a daytoday basis . And what will you do as president to chip away at systemic racism, sexism, and reduce the impact they have on these groups interactions with Law Enforcement and government entities. Thank you. Let me begin by acknowledging asking a woman of color for her vote. Asking you for your vote is a lot to ask. It is a lot to ask anyone for their vote. Women of color have been the backbone of the campaign. Of democratic campaigns. And of this party. And this is a vote that has been won within living memory. Its not just expressing a political preference. It is something that was earned with blood. And sweat and tears. I recognize that and im humbled by that. Im humbled by the knowledge of the experiences i dont have. When you talk about how to try to get that understanding, i recognize that i will never have the experience of being in an emergency room for example as happened to so many black women and have my description of being in pain not believed. Which is one of the reasons why black women are three times as likely to die from complications related to childbirth as white women. Just as i wont have the experience that so many black men have, young black men in particular of being presumed to be dangerous, just feeling eyes on them as you walk down the street or through a mall. Just because of the color of your skin by people that dont know you. I recognize that i dont have that lived experience. So the question becomes what can i do to try to reach out to those who do and invite them to shape the vision of my campaign. Invite them into shaping the vision of the white house i propose to build. For example our plan for dealing with systemic racism we call it the Frederick Douglas plan. I believe we need to take as much intention as went into the Marshall Plan to rebuild europe and do it right here at home. Dismantling the effects of systemic discrimination for Economic Empowerment to housing, health, criminal justice reform, education, voting. Im proud of it. Its brilliant. Its not like i sat in the room and wrote it up. The reason its so good it was shaped by black voices and in particular dealing with the intersection of sexism and racism. Shaped by those who lived that and. Thats what we need to do in the white house. This is not going to get better on its own. You cant just cross out a racist policy. And replace it with a neutral policy. And expect things to get better. If we want to get that wealth gap thats been talked about addressed you cant expect it to get fixed on its own. We need to proactively coinvest in black owned businesses. And when i talk to owners of the in particular businesses owned by black women, they say they werent able to get bank financing. When i see a Small Business led by the black women with the best track record of creating opportunities for others. How did you get up and running they always say cash. Because of the credit problems. We could change that. We have to change that. Same with criminal justice. This is a problem i have been humbled by. They ways which we have a long way to go in my own city are wellknown. And they have demonstrated to me nothing will get better without a systemic approach. And it cant just be one person. The biggest lie this president ever told when he took the stage at the inauguration and said i alone can fix it. Nobody this side of paradise can fix anything alone. That will be at the heart of my determination to include the voices of those who experience i cannot understand from my own life. Like the black women who are so systemically harmed by the inequities in this country. Let me follow up on that because we are in South Carolina. And in 2016, 60 of the democratic voters were african maerps. You dont have long. Youve got five days here to show africanamericans and to get their support. Why you . What do you want africanamericans in this state, democratic voters to know about you to win them over . What do you want them to know . Well, first of all its not just whats in my plan. Again, i believe my plans the most comprehensive for dealing with the effects of systemic racism. But it is my determination to make sure we actually win so that we can deliver on those plans. I know that nobody is feeling the pain of living under the presidency of donald trump more than americans now. And i so many voters i talk to are laser focused on making sure we defeat this president and this is our only shot. I have the campaigns best position to do that if of course we earn that support and earn that vote, and thats what im determined to do. And i want every in particular black voters who have again have been through so much to secure the vote and have felt their vote taken for granted so often. I want you to know i understand im not entitled to it. And somebody who has the benefit of neither decades of experience so you can see good, bad and indifferent i understand all i can do is stand before you in all humility and share whats in my heart as well as my plans. Rickey is a middle School Social studies teacher. Shes currently undecided but shes leaning towards you. Rickey . Good evening. How does being the mayor of south bend, indiana, prepare you to be the leader of ininterity of the United States of america . And how identical you compensate for your lack of experience in some of the key issues facing america . So it is a leap for anybody to pursue the american president , and yet every Single Person whos done it has been immortal with a certain amount of experience. Many of them have been senators and i dont think id give that question, of course, if i were a senator. And you can be a seen, senator and never in your life managed 50 million people. I believe while theres no job as president , when you are a mayor you are in an arena where you dont get to just talk about issues, you are accountableable for results on everything, good, bad and ugly that goes on in your community. What we were able to do is take a city that was being described as dying just a decade ago and guide it out of a legacy of factory closures that defined the life of our city and into a brighter future. We took action on racial inequities. We took action on preparing our city for a better future. And theres one other thing i would say about the relevance of being mayor which is when youre mayor youre a walking symbol of the unity of our city. You never forget it is your responsibility to call together everybody part of the community, especially those who didnt support you politically. That is also the part of the presidency whose absence is costing us so much under donald trump. I believe we need the instincts of a mayor to start getting washington to work a little bit more like our best run cities and towns before the reverse starts happening. And i also recognize that, again, nobody does anything alone. One of the first things you learn as a mayor when you are building your administration is that you need to surround yourself with people who have the relevant experience. I never want to be the smartest person in the room on any subject, and i will always want people smarter than me at whatever it is im asking them to take charge of. She is a charleston native and won the title of misses america back in 2014. Shes now the president and executive director of an antihuman trafficking nonprofit. Shes kurnltcurrently undecidedu have the chance to win her over. Welcome to charleston. This is not the downtown charlatan i grew up just about 7 blocks away from here. Charleston is filled with working class families many being pushed out and priced out, displaced as gentrification happens in our area. This happens all over country especially in brown and black neighborhoods and im wondering what will you do in order to protect families from being displaced and pressed out of their homes . Thank you. This is an example of one of those issues that i was talking about of Racial Justice that wont get better without intention and resources. This isnt just going to happen. And by the way, we should remember that a lot of the racial segregation of american neighborhoods happen because of federal policy. That Racial Discrimination and access to subsidies for housing, for example. So there is an obligation to proactively do something about this, and yet what we have under this administration, under President Trump is the reverse. They actually gutted things like the rule the Obama Administration setup on ensuring communities affirmatively further fair housing. We will reinstate that and im proposing a 21st century homestead act. Unlike the original homestead act that largely led to the dispossession of nativeamericans, this would be about addressing the situation where youve got families, mostly black and brown families who got red lined into certain neighborhoods only to face be jentrified right back out of them. We need to allow families who are have from historic communities and hold those neighborhoods in their original character. This is something weve seen in our own community where Public Safety in my view depends as much on making sure that the neighbors who have been in those homes and neighborhoods have a chance to stay there as anything that a Police Department can do. Its why we directed home repaired dollars to disproportionately black neighborhoods in the city of south bend knowing it could make a difference for the stability and character of the neighborhoods. Weve got to have a higher than ever level of intention and again real dollars in order to address this federally, too. I want to bring in an assistanting accounting professor at the college of charleston. Shes originally from parkland, florida. She moved to charleston two years ago and shes leaning towards you or President Biden but hasnt decided. It was just two years ago i received the kind of news no parent ever wants to hear. 17 people were killed as a result of a mass shooter. If youre elected as president what steps are you going to take to ensure me and other parents that our children are safe when they attend school, and how do your plans differ from those of the other candidates . Well, thanks for your question. And no parent should ever go through getting a phone call like that. And no student should be worrying about this the way that so many students across america are. I got a letter from a 14yearold saying shes already written out a basic will because shes just that afraid. Its hard enough to be in high School Without worrying about those kinds of things and i think everybody old enough to vote and hold a position of responsibility should be handling it and taking care of those things so that students dont have to even begin to worry about them. I mean, this is basic. So what does that look like . First of all, lets look at background checks. This is something that the vast majority of not just democrats but independents, gun owners think we have to do because its common sense. And when we do it, we should do it with an attention to the kind of loopholes like the charleston loophole that allowed a shooter to get a firearm in the horrible killing at Mother Emmanuel Church where if the background check doesnt come back quickly enough to just give you the firearm. And it shows how broken our politics is and thats one of the things that i believe is different from some of my competitors. I believe we need red flag laws that can help us deal with not only gun violence in the forms of Mass Shootings and killings but also suicide, which so many gun suicides are preventable. But we need to empower families who have concern about somebody to temporarily disarm them through a court order. And when it comes to assault weapons anything remotely resembling the kind of weapon i trained on in order to serve in afghanistan has no business being sold for profit anywhere near an American School or church or neighborhood. A project manager at the college of charleston and is currently undecided. Good evening. What can you say to die hard Trump Supporters to try to convince them that you are better for this country and for them instead of trump . I guess it depends on how die hard they are. Look, were not going to win over everybody, but i also think theres an opportunity to bring people back into the democratic party. I believe we can be true to our progressive values and be inviting to a lot of people who feel politically without a home right now, and part of what i would point to is this president got elected pretending to care about the forgotten people. Remember the whole thing about the forgotten men and women trying to make himself a champion of it working class . And the only economic promise hes kept is cutting taxes on corporations benefitting the extreme extremely wealthy. Hes saying the economy is perfect because the dow jones is looking good. Maybe thats not going to last with this global outbreak. Most americans it doesnt do any good to have the stock market going up if youre not seeing it in your paycheck or your paycheck going up is covering the cost of health and prescription drugs and saving for retirement and housing. This is not an economy thats working for most of us and when im president were going to take the measure of a good economy and its not going to be the stock market, not even the gdp but the Income Growth of the 90 . These are issues that are going to affect the every day lives. And the other thing i would say to anybody who voted that way is this president does not respect you. This president thinks youre a sucker. He thinks youll support him while he and his friends are laughing all the way to the bank. Lets do something different, and lets do it together. Wow, all right. Were going to be right back with more from former mayor Pete Buttigieg. Dont go anywhere. Man whats my safelite story . I spend a lot of time in my truck. Its my livelihood. Rock music man so im not taking any chances when something happens to it. So when my windshield cracked. My friend recommended safelite autoglass. Tech hi, im adrian. Man thanks for coming. Tech oh, no problem. Tech check it out. Man yeah. 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