Pete Buttigieg: “We need this legislation. Look, we are doing everything we can, short of an act of Congress, but we are urgently calling…”

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.

You know, if Republicans really wanted to give everybody a few thousand dollars, they would have done it this week instead of going home for two months in the middle of multiple national crises.

So forgive us if we don’t believe him when he says he’s going to give everybody $5,000, but only after the election and only if they win.

I came to South Carolina to propose something about the country’s future.