Buttigieg jabs Biden at Iowa gay pride event

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DES MOINES, Iowa — Pete Buttigieg took a subtle jab at Democratic presidential primary rival Joe Biden in an LGBT pride festival speech on Saturday.

“There’s not going back to normal. Don’t listen to anybody in either party who says we can just go back to what we were doing,” the gay South Bend, Ind., mayor said. “We in the LGBT community know that when we hear phrases like ‘make America great again,’ that that American past was never quite as great as advertised.”

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