Democratic presidential contender Pete Buttigieg on Thursday said he no longer used the phrase 'all lives matter' following a report published in CNBC a day before surfacing his 2015 use of the phrase.
Democratic presidential contender Pete Buttigieg on Thursday told reporters he no longer said"all lives matter" following a report published in CNBC a day before surfacing his 2015 use of the phrase, which activists say is used to criticize the Black Lives Matter movement.
"Since learning about how that phrase was being used to push back on that activism, I have stopped using it in that context," Buttigieg said.
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