Discussing his chances against Trump, Buttigieg said no one will 'play his game better than he does, and so we’ve got to do something completely different.'
Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg has suggested that if God supported a political party, it would not be the Republicans.
“I’m as surprised as anybody that I’m doing this right now, and for it to be catching on as quickly as it has,” Buttigieg told NBC News. “I did not expect to spend my 38th year running for president.” Looking beyond his Democratic challengers, the South Bend, Indiana, mayor is prepping a strategy he thinks can defeat President Donald Trump. “There's going to be a temptation to play his game,” he acknowledged. “If you’re playing his game you’re losing. Nobody is going to play his game better than he does, and so we’ve got to do something completely different.”
“That is exactly the kind of place that our current president targeted with a message saying that we could find greatness by just stopping the clock and turning it back, and ‘making America great again,’” Buttigieg continued. “That past that he is promising to return us to was never as great as advertised, especially for marginalized Americans…and there’s no going back anyway.”
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