[dropcap style=”dropcap_style1″ textcolor=”#000000″ background=”#ffffff” fontweight=”900″]Just like former Vice President Joe Biden, it appears that Mayor Pete Buttigieg might have a plagiarising problem. The Recount created a side by side video that shows Mayor Buttigieg parroting speeches that President Obama gave throughout his administration.
Is "Pete Obama voice" a thing? pic.twitter.com/IWU0tdg7xb
— The Recount (@therecount) February 25, 2020
It also appears that Mayor Pete is Tweeting out comments that look an awful lot like those from President Obama:
Obama: “One voice can change a room. And if it can change a room, it can change a city. And if it can change a city, it can change a state.”
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) November 6, 2012
If we can light up a high school gym—we can light a neighborhood.
If we can light up a neighborhood—we can light a city.
If we can light up a city—we can light up our country.
— Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) February 23, 2020
The liberal publication Common Dreams Tweeted out a video showing Mayor Pete once again “borrowing” from President Obama:
Placing Buttigieg’s imitation of the most rhetorically gifted politician of my lifetime alongside the real thing really shows the difference between a shoddy, dime store knockoff and the designer product.
— Eoin Higgins (@EoinHiggins_) February 23, 2020
Candidates with similar political ideologies saying similar things are understandable, but for it to happen this often seems a little too coincidental.