Pete Buttigieg: “Thank you very much, Chair Schatz, Ranking Member Hyde-Smith, Vice Chair of the committee Collins and all of the members…”

He brought hope to us.

We’re going to win because we know what it means to focus on what’s at stake, to lock arms as allies after a spirited primary, to pull together in common cause.

There is no such thing as again in real life. The only way out is through.

And I couldn’t help but thinking, as I rounded the edge of the mall, that the only thing he’s actually managed to drain is that reflecting pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial.