Cannot overstate how different it will be as a reporter to cover a media-friendly celebrity as head of @USDOT rather than the press-averse @SecElaineChao.
She’s New York, he’s South Bend.

And yet she’s all rural roads, he’s bikeable complete streets.

She had led a @USDOT agency, not to mention @USDOL for 8 years. He led a city of 100,000.

Her husband is @senatemajldr. His husband is @Chasten.
. @PeteButtigieg rose to improbable stardom as a compassionate centrist from the Heartland who seemed to transcend ideology and got a bunch of old white moderates to want to vote for a gay guy young enough to be their grandkid.

@SecElaineChao doesn’t take questions.
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