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SECRETARY BUTTIGIEG WAS BRILLIANT ... BUT REPORTERS PRETTY AWFUL CAMPAIGN ... Buttigieg won’t say if Biden should run in 2024 
President Joe Biden listens as Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg speaks during an event about strengthening the supply chain with improvements in the trucking industry, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Monday, April 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) Original article: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3844546-buttigieg-wont-say-if-biden-should-run-in-2024/ Peter Burgess COMMENTARY I watched the Buttigieg interview on ABC's This Week with great interest and paid attention. The Secretary, quite reasonably declined to 'make news' by opining on whether or not President Biden should run again in spite a very deft attempt by the host / moderator to get Buttigieg to 'make news'. Buttigieg's handling of this interview on ABC was masterful and repeated in another interview on NBC's Meet the Press which I also got to watch. I concluded several months ago that the Biden administration had accomplished more in their rather short term in office than any administation since Presidents Eisenhower and Johnson combined many decades ago ... and Biden has done it with a razor thin majority in Congress. This morning's performance by the media feeds into my concern that the media has an agenda ... and it is not the one that is particularly good for the future of the United States ... which would be more than a pity, but I truly don't know what to call it!!!!! Peter Burgess | ||
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CAMPAIGN ... Buttigieg won’t say if Biden should run in 2024
Written by JULIA MUELLER 02/05/23 2:49 PM ET Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Sunday sidestepped a question on whether he wants President Biden to run for a second White House term in 2024, lauding the president’s accomplishments but saying he “can’t talk campaigns.” “Do you want him to run? Do you want him to run again?” host Jonathan Karl asked Buttigieg on ABC’s “This Week,” highlighting recent polling data that suggests Democrats may not want another four years with Biden. “He is an absolutely historically successful president, and I want to see that continue,” Buttigieg said of Biden. “When I’m appearing in this capacity, I can’t talk campaigns and elections. But let me say this: I’m incredibly proud to be a part of this team that he has built and to be part of the results that he is delivering,” the Transportation secretary added. The ABC News-Washington Post poll, released Sunday, found Americans weren’t enthusiastic about the possibility of 2024 run from either Biden or his predecessor, former President Trump, who has already announced his campaign. A little over half — 58 percent — of Democrats and Democrat-leaning independents in the poll said they’d prefer someone other than Biden as their party’s nominee for the next presidential election. Asked on Sunday how soon he thinks Biden will announce his widely expected 2024 bid, Buttigieg said, “That’s out of my lane and above my pay grade at the same time.” Buttigieg touted the current administration’s success, including “the biggest infrastructure package since Eisenhower” and “the most significant economic achievement package since FDR.” “We’re just two years in. So what he’s — what he’s achieved is extraordinary. And when I see tongues wagging about polls and this sort of thing, I can’t help but think about, you know, the tongues that were wagging in October,” he said. “One thing this president has done again and again and again, whether it’s politically or whether it’s policywise, is defy expectations,” he added. TAGS 2024 BIDEN BIDEN CAMPAIGN DONALD TRUMP JOE BIDEN JONATHAN KARL PETE BUTTIGIEG PETE BUTTIGIEG PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION TRUMP
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