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Pete Buttigieg used a Fox News town hall in New Hampshire on Sunday to slam two of the network's primetime opinion hosts, knocking both Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham by name on the network where they each host an hour. Our story: https://t.co/0o57PoU5kb — PolitiTweet.org

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Buttigieg closes this town hall by joking about the imminent #GOT finale. He said he thought they were setting it up for Daenerys, but that she has “made some highly questionable leadership decisions” recently. He is eying the Arya plot line tonight. (I don't watch, so...) — PolitiTweet.org

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Buttigieg hit Carlson for saying immigrants make the country dirty and Ingraham comparing detention centers with children to summer camps. It was pretty stark to see someone go after Carlson and Ingraham on the network where they are top talent. — PolitiTweet.org

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Buttigieg admits on Fox News that he sometimes has trouble turning away from President Donald Trump's tweets and comments: "It is the nature of grotesque things that you can’t look away." Pressed by Chris Wallace on Trump's tweets about him, Buttigieg says: "“I don’t care." — PolitiTweet.org

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Very interesting: Buttigieg uses his Fox News town hall to call out Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham - by name - for comments they have made. "There is a reason why anyone has to swallow hard and think twice" before going on Fox, he says. — PolitiTweet.org

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Buttigieg adds, to address the deficit, he will support a higher marginal income tax for top earners, a financial transaction tax on "the millisecond differences in computer trades" and closing "corporate tax loopholes and incentives for offshoring." — PolitiTweet.org

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Buttigieg, asked about addressing the deficit on Fox News, opens with a shot at Trump: "First of all, you don’t blow a hole in the budget with an unnecessary and unaffordable tax cut for the very wealthy." — PolitiTweet.org

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Pressed by Wallace on abortion in the third trimester, Buttigieg says, "I trust women to draw the line when it is their own body." He says the decision to abort in the third trimester is not made easier because "the government is dictating how that decision should be made." — PolitiTweet.org

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Buttigieg on abortion in Fox News town hall: "I believe that the right of a woman to make her own decisions about her own reproductive health and her own body is a national right, I believe it is an American freedom." — PolitiTweet.org

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.@Lis_Smith likely jumping for joy over this tweet. — PolitiTweet.org

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Gross. — PolitiTweet.org

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.@hughhewitt: "Should Jefferson-Jackson dinners be renamed everywhere because both were holders of slaves?" Buttigieg: "Yeah. ... I think it’s the right thing to do." https://t.co/r7uZ20I7C5 — PolitiTweet.org

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.@hughhewitt: Is Mike Pence homophobic? Buttigieg: "If you’re in public office and you advance homophobic policies, on some level it doesn’t matter whether you do that out of political calculation or whether you do it out of sincere belief." https://t.co/r7uZ20I7C5 — PolitiTweet.org

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Pete Buttigieg will be back in Bay Area on June 1 for a Pride Month Kickoff fundraiser in San Francisco, per an invite provided to CNN. https://t.co/G9hSx7SvDo — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jeffzeleny: Afghanistan is often the answer for @PeteButtigieg when fielding questions about his experience or quieting protests. We ta… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @GregJKrieg: Rolled out of bed and onto ~the trail~ this morning: https://t.co/ljhtCSWuJa — PolitiTweet.org

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CNN pressed Buttigieg in April about his lack of policy. Buttigieg responded by saying that while policy is important, Democrats need to communicate their values without drowning voters in "minutiae." "I've been pretty clear where I stand on major issues," he said. — PolitiTweet.org

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Pete Buttigieg has a new policy page on his website: https://t.co/kSeiqRCePk Buttigieg had received some criticism a few weeks ago for a lack of policy. He just sent this email to his supporters about the new page: https://t.co/sVxgnV7oQu — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump on seeing Pete and Chasten Buttigieg on stage together: “I think it’s great.” He adds: “It’s something that perhaps some people will have a problem with it. I have no problem with it whatsoever. I think it’s good.” — PolitiTweet.org

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Iowa Senator (cleverly) gets in on the de Blasio bashing... — PolitiTweet.org

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@kyletblaine There is a lot about that sentence that I don’t understand. — PolitiTweet.org

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@amychozick Fresh mango on a stick with chili and lime? @albamonica — PolitiTweet.org

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Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on Thursday repeatedly called out Joe Biden for his approach on climate, suggesting that the former vice president is naive about working with Republicans on the issue https://t.co/dabW5plHVC — PolitiTweet.org

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Asked by CNN, Inslee said he “was concerned like most everyone was of the comments coming out of (the Biden)campaign” on climate and that he has “not seen to date any suggestion that” Biden is ready to step up on the issue. — PolitiTweet.org

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Inslee takes a veiled swipe at Biden in announcing jobs plan aimed at combatting climate change: “We cannot have a middle ground proposal to build a clean energy future. We need a full-throated, robust and complete mobilization of the United States.” — PolitiTweet.org

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Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is at DC Water's Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant to unveil his $3 trillion jobs plan centered on clean energy, green infrastructure https://t.co/2ejdgF4P1b https://t.co/yp79PKVKTI — PolitiTweet.org

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Inslee to CNN on why he sees climate change as the most pressing 2020 issue: "There may be a chance to deal w/ some other issues. This the last chance to deal with this one." If the US doesn't confront climate change, he added, "we're toast." Our story: https://t.co/FkNq2h0nb3 — PolitiTweet.org

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Inslee to CNN: “Those who think the climate crisis is one thing just don't understand it is actually everything. It's all connected. ... It's an economic ecosystem. It's a health ecosystem. It is all connected, and you can't solve our other problems unless you solve this one." — PolitiTweet.org

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Washington Gov. Jay Inslee unveiled his presidential campaign's jobs plan on Thursday, detailing a $3 trillion proposal with a laserlike focus on combating climate change that projects the creation of 8 million jobs over the next 10 years https://t.co/2ejdgF4P1b — PolitiTweet.org

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New York Mayor Bill de Blasio officially announces his 2020 run: “I'm Bill de Blasio and I'm running for president because it's time we put working people first.” https://t.co/N9RrG2SxZr — PolitiTweet.org