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Biden Taps Pete Buttigieg for Transportation Secretary
Mr. Buttigieg would bring a younger voice to the cabinet and add to its diversity as its first openly gay member.
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Tuesday, February 11, 2020
Well, my cousin Bill Costner's son Kevin thinks a lot like me, though we have never met.
But I love it that
Kevin is putting himself out there for Buttigieg.
45 minutes ago
And now a word from Kevin Costner, about Buttigieg.
Kevin Costner spoke at an event for Pete Buttigieg in Exeter on Monday.
EXETER, N.H. — It was an odd political trick, suggesting that maybe the candidate he was speaking for might not be the only one who can solve the nation’s problems, but Kevin Costner wasn’t there to deliver a firebrand introduction.
Mr. Costner traveled with former Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind., during the final day of New Hampshire campaigning. He delivered opening remarks for Mr. Buttigieg’s closing rally Monday night at Exeter High School.
· But instead of a speech enthusiastically backing Mr. Buttigieg, Mr. Costner spoke for eight minutes and gave what could have been a monologue from one of his sappier films.
· “He doesn’t compete to be the loudest,” Mr. Costner said of Mr. Buttigieg. “His silences are those of someone who is thinking.”
· Mr. Costner did not implore the crowd to go out and volunteer and knock doors for Mr. Buttigieg. He was just there, he said, to tell them whom he is supporting. And that’s Mr. Buttigieg, he said, because the former mayor is a good listener.
· “One person alone is not smart enough to have all the good ideas,” Mr. Costner said. “One party alone cannot have all the good ideas. So what we have to have is to have a candidate who has the good sense to not care where the good idea comes from. What we have to have is to have a president secure enough to let all Americans benefit without regard for who gets the credit for the good idea.”
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