Pete Buttigieg: “You flee a communist regime in Venezuela, you come here, and then somebody tricks you -- somebody`s using Florida…”

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.

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.

And then we wake up to see billions in crypto money going right into his pockets and corporate lobbyists getting their way everywhere from the AI industry to my old haunts at the U.S. Department of Transportation.

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