Pete Buttigieg predicts end of MAGA with Kamala win

"Do you think the Vice President should go on Fox? Do you think she should debate on Fox?" The Daily host asked Buttigieg, a Kamala campaign surrogate.

"I would be skeptical of the fairness of a debate hosted by Fox," Buttigieg said, "but that's a decision that I'm sure she and the campaign will think through." Fox News has offered to host a debate between Republican candidate Donald Trump and the new, presumed nominee for the Democrats, Kamala Harris. Fox has held open the date of September 17. NBC News had a lock on a debate between Joe Biden and Trump set for September 10, but Harris was not part of that arrangement.

The Daily then moved on to ask about some new messaging coming out of the Democrat camp, namely that of calling Trump, his running mate JD Vance, and MAGA in general "weird." This messaging has been picked up in unison by Democrat surrogates, pundits and politicians across the airwaves and social media networks. New York's AOC even claimed that the entire GOP campaign is "weird," using that word that has been trickled down from Dem elite all the way down to influencers.

"I do want to ask you about a specific shift in messaging I've noticed this week from the Democrats," the host began. "The Harris campaign is leaning into the idea that Trump is, quote, weird. I've seen this 'weird' word floating around. It's very different from the way Democrats had framed him before, which is that he's an existential threat to democracy, this terrifying figure that is going to take away people's rights. Weird, seems a different tack than that. What do you think of that strategy of basically laughing at him?"

Buttigieg tried to bridge the old Biden campaign and the new Harris campaign by saying "to be clear, I think we're doing both, we're talking about the implications for democracy and noting that he is obviously a strange person who's getting stranger." He said there was a "generational difference" between the Trump and Harris, who was born at the tail-end of the baby boomer generation. Trump was born at the beginning of that same generation and is 18 years older than Harris.

"And you got to ask yourself," Buttigieg went on to say, "you know, is that the kind of person you want in charge of the country, especially because we saw how not just weird but, but how chaotic it was last time in part of the promise of a Kamala Harris presidency, is actually the prospect of a comparatively normal Republican Party." Buttigieg, and likely other Democrats, believe that if Trump were out of the way, the MAGA movement he led would also be disbanded and the GOP would go back to the straight-laced, bow-tied party of fiscal conservatism. He believes a Kamala win would be the death knell to GOP populism.

"What I mean by that is, beating Donald Trump the first time in 2020 ended his term, but it did not end his grip on the GOP. Beating him twice would, I think, will have a different effect on a lot of people in the GOP who know better than to be on board with him. He goes against their values, too, not just my values, but they've gone along with it because they think it's the path to power," Buttigieg said, assuming that the values of the MAGA movement are mutable and meaningless were it not for Trump at the head of it.

"And it would become abundantly clear that that is not true, if we beat him, not just the way we beat him in 2020, not just the way we indirectly beat him in 2022 in the midterms, but beat him a second or so to speak third time," Buttigieg continued. "And we will always have fierce and meaningful disagreements between Democrats and Republicans, but there's a chance of that difference, those debates being a little less ugly. Or to put it another way, a little less weird."

Buttigieg is a leader in the party that claims men can become women just by saying so and believes children should be put on drugs to stop their development if those children believe they were born in the wrong body. That party has painted Trump running mate JD Vance, a family man with two sons and a supportive wife, as weird. And what Buttigieg doesn't realize, that the Trump campaign was just thoroughly made aware of, is that you don't get to choose your opponent.