Pete Buttigieg distances himself from Biden amid 2028 talk, suggests 'Build Back Better' doesn't work

This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. ©2026 FOX News Network, LLC. All rights reserved. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Market data provided by Factset. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. Legal Statement. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by LSEG. Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg criticized former President Joe Biden's 2020 presidential campaign slogan during an interview with Politico. Former Transportation Secretary and potential 2028 presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg appeared to distance himself from former President Joe Biden and rejected the idea of a "return to normal" during a Politico interview Tuesday. "I'm trying to purge my vocabulary of anything with the prefix 're-' in it, anything with the word back in it," Buttigieg told columnist Jonathan Martin. "I don't think now is the time to be talking about 'Build Back Better.' Build better, yes. I don't even want to talk about back." Martin pointed out that "Build Back Better" was Biden's 2020 presidential campaign slogan and asked if that meant he believed the party has changed in the last six years. JAMES CARVILLE ARG