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Checked by FactCheck.org19 Apr 2021United States Elections

Pete Buttigieg, Transportation Secretary

“Polls show the American Jobs Plan has "extraordinary Republican and independent and Democratic support.”

FactCheck.org rated this: Spins the Facts

FactCheck.org says: Several independent studies show strong bipartisan support for many of the main spending components, but also show most Republicans oppose the overall plan.

Checked by FactCheck.org26 Feb 2020United States Elections

Bernie Sanders, Democratic presidential candidate

“Said that both Pete Buttigieg and Joe Biden have received campaign contributions from 50 or more billionaires and that the American people “don’t want candidates to be running to billionaires for huge amounts of funding.”

FactCheck.org rated this: Small Share of Donations

Checked by PolitiFact23 Jan 2020United States Elections

Pete Buttigieg, Democratic presidential candidate

“Every time we have won, at least in the last 50 or 60 years, it’s been with a candidate who called the country to a higher vision of itself, who hadn’t been in Washington for too long, and who spoke for a new generation.”

PolitiFact rated this: Mostly True

Checked by PolitiFact20 Dec 2019United States Elections

Pete Buttigieg, Democratic presidential candidate

“Senator, your presidential campaign, right now as we speak, is funded in part by money you transferred, having raised it at those exact same big-ticket fundraisers you now denounce.”

PolitiFact rated this: News accounts confirm it

Checked by PolitiFact25 Nov 2019United States Elections

Pete Buttigieg, Democratic presidential candidate

“The black voters who know me best returned me to office and supported me more the second time around than the first.”

PolitiFact rated this: Not conclusive

Checked by PolitiFact5 Nov 2019United States Elections

Pete Buttigieg, Democratic presidential candidate

“When it comes to electability, every single time my party has won the presidency in the last 50 years, it’s been with a candidate who was new on the national scene, hadn’t spent a lot of time in Washington, and represented a new generation of leadership.”

PolitiFact rated this: Mostly True

Checked by Washington Post30 Oct 2019United States Elections

Pete Buttigieg, Mayor (D)

“Racially motivated patterns of voter suppression are responsible for Stacey Abrams not being governor of Georgia right now.”

Washington Post rated this: Not the Whole Story