Is Pete Buttigieg running for president? He seems to be testing the 2028 waters with these town hall events, which reminds us of one thing: he’ll never be president of the United States. Try as you might, Mr. Pete, your sexuality doesn’t sit well with a key part of the Democratic Party’s base: black voters. Like Bernie Sanders before him, Mayor Pete, like his infrastructure record in South Bend, Indiana, is going to get stuck in a pothole, but his recent remarks about the Electoral College were inadvertently hilarious.
At a recent event in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Buttigieg said, “What if we selected our president by letting the person who got the most votes take the office, instead of the Electoral College?"
Yes.
What if we did that in 2024? We'd still have Donald J. Trump as president of the United States. Trump won 89 percent of all counties, all seven swing states, the popular vote, and the Electoral College. It was total domination. Pete, it wasn’t luck or institutional obstacles that caused your party to be thrashed in 2024. We were just flat-out better than you people.
Pete Buttigieg thinks everyone is so stupid that they don’t know who won the popular vote as well as the electoral college in 2024.
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) May 3, 2026
It was President Donald Trump, https://t.co/NMaQteoGFX pic.twitter.com/dCHmoM3RMv
If we did this, the President of the United States would currently be Donald Trump. https://t.co/MmXJiGR3aI
— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) May 3, 2026
Notice how Democrats and liberal media folks didn’t complain about the Electoral College after Trump’s win—it’s because he also won the popular vote. There was nothing to argue about since the Republicans crushed the Democratic Party. Was Pete asleep? Or is he just once again peddling talking points that only appeal to the most obscure parts of the political class?
It’s an institution that has worked well, yet the nation has become unstable when a winning candidate secures the Electoral College but not the popular vote. It’s a common argument, but one driven by hidden agendas, part of the Left’s ongoing effort to weaken our Constitution, making it less effective because the progressive agenda doesn’t align well with the safety principles set by our Founding Fathers. If you’re unsure about how we elect our president, you’re part of the problem. You’re the reason the Electoral College exists.
Pete, stop this, please. You’re not going to win.