Pete Buttigieg advises an 11-year-old girl on how to deal with her bullies

U.S. Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg answers a question from an 11-year-old girl on how to deal with her bullies. Here is an EXTREMELY rough and likely inaccurate transcript:

Everybody who's different can be bullied, and everybody's different in some way. And when someone's bullying you they're making you feel alone sometimes, they're making you feel like you're the only one in that situation, they're breaking you do. it makes you feel angry, it makes you feel worse. It can make you angry

They wind up turning it around and visiting that same kind of pain on someone else.

The first thing you gotta know is you've got nothing to be ashamed of

The person who's bullying you probably has something a little broken in them, they're trying to get your attention

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I think it really matters that we have a President that doesn't have that sort of behavior. It's part of why I'm running for President.


The hard part is turning to a bully and ask if they're OK. They won't know what to do with it.

Sometimes you wanna give it right back but you have control over whether that bully makes you into a worse version of yourself, and not a better version of yourself.

When you're being bullied, someone else is watching,

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