Buttigieg on Inequality, Campaign Reform, and Matt Damon Playing Him

Pete Buttigieg says a hot dog is not a sandwich, that Matt Damon should play him in a biopic, and, more seriously, that he quit using the phrase "all lives matter" when he realized it represented opposition to the Black Lives Matter movement.

The mayor of South Bend, Ind., who is the only openly gay candidate in the Democratic presidential field, made the comments in the new 20 Questions for 2020 feature on Now This News. He's the first of the candidates to be interviewed.

On the "all lives matter" issue, he notes that he saw the phrase as a unifier when he used it in a speech in early 2015, but then he realized it was being used as a "counterslogan" to Black Lives Matter. "Nobody thinks that all lives don't matter," he says. "The point is Black Lives Matter emerged because it had to be said, because a lot of people felt like they could no longer take for granted that their lives were being counted the same as everybody else's."

Buttigieg also reveals that he's gone from being almost antireligious to having faith play a big role in his life, discusses his commitment to fighting all forms of discrimination, and talks about the need for campaign finance reform. Watch below.