Glenn Beck: Pete Buttigieg is NO moderate — here's where he stands on the issues

Former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg has surged in the polls in the past month.

With former Vice President Joe Biden dropping below far-left presidential candidates such as the unapologetically socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.), and the almost equally extremist Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), Democratic voters seeking a more moderate alternative are setting their sights on Mayor Pete.

But are Buttigieg's policies actually moderate? Not even close, Glenn Beck said Thursday on the radio program.

"[Pete Buttigieg] wants people to see him as a moderate. The mayor of a Midwest city in a red state ... and he's going for the middle, even though he is not a moderate candidate in any way," said Glenn.

Here are just a few examples of where Buttigieg stands on the issues:

• Supports late-term, partial-birth abortion
• Eliminate the Electoral College
• Buyback program for assault weapons
• Raise the federal minimum wage to $15/hour
• Expand Medicare
• Decriminalize illegal immigration
• Pay for infrastructure through changing taxes on corporations, the wealthy
• Study reparations
• Legalize marijuana
• Increase existing taxes on upper-income Americans
• Cancel some student debt
• Don't use tariffs to pressure countries

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