Buttigieg Battles Warren on Campaign Funding: You Impose Purity Tests That You Yourself Cannot Pass

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BUTTIGIEG: “So this is important. This is the problem with issuing purity tests you cannot yourself pass. If I pledge — if I pledge never to be in the company of a Progressive democratic donor, I couldn’t be up here. Senator your net worth is 100 times mine. Suppose you went home and felt the holiday Spirit — I know this isn’t likely, but stay with me — and decided to go on pete.com and gave the maximum, would that pollute my campaign because it came from a wealthy person? No. I would be glad to have that support. We need the support to everybody who is invested to help beat Donald Trump.”