Pete Buttigieg speaks on the third night of the Democratic National Convention: NPR

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Before a cheering crowd, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg focused on the theme of “joy,” which is at the heart of the Harris campaign.

“The composition of my kitchen table, the existence of my family, are just one example of something that was literally impossible just 25 years ago, when an anxious teenager growing up in Indiana wondered if he would ever belong in this world,” he said.

He called for “better politics” and an end to Trump’s “politics of darkness.”

“I don't presume to know what goes on in your kitchen, but as sure as I stand here, I know that everything in there, the bills you pay, the makeup of the family that sits there, the fears and dreams you talk about late into the night, compel us to demand more from our politics than the replay of some wrestling death match on television,” he said.

Check out his full remarks: