Pete Buttigieg has raised over $7 Million in the 1st Quarter!
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From Axios:
Pete Buttigieg has raised more than $7 million since launching a presidential exploratory committee in January, the potential candidate announced Monday morning.
Why it matters: Buttigieg started with low name recognition and earned more organic search interest than initial media visibility, but reached as high as 4th in a recent nationwide poll.
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From Pete’s Twitter Account:
Buttigieg's stance on key issues
- College costs: He has concerns about soaring student debt and believes college is too expensive for "too many people." He supports expanding the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program that clears loans in exchange for public service work, per CNBC.
- Climate change: Buttigieg supports the Paris climate agreement and the Green New Deal, and he thinks climate change is a national security threat, per PBS. He is supportive of government-subsidized solar panels.
- Guns: He is a member of Mayors Against Illegal Guns and supports universal background checks and banning guns in schools, according to PBS.
- Health care: He is supportive of single-payer health care, but wants to transition to the model via an all-payer rate-setting, which would not eliminate private insurance companies, per the LA Times.
- Immigration: Buttigieg supports providing a pathway to citizenship for Dreamers, a local network, WSBT reported.
- Non-discrimination: He supports updating the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to explicitly apply non-discrimination protections to the LGBTQ community.
- Supreme Court: He is open to having more than 9 Supreme Court justices.
- Electoral College: He is supportive of abolishing it.
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