A Buttigieg supporter in Portland, Oregon removes the "Pete 2020" bumper sticker from her car. Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg is announcing that he is quitting the race. The South Bend, Indiana mayor was unable to sustain his campaign efforts going in to Super Tuesday. Buttigieg was the first openly gay candidate from a major party to seek the nation's highest office.
Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg (born January 19, 1982) is an American politician who was mayor of South Bend, Indiana, from 2012 to 2020. He was a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2020 United States presidential election. Buttigieg is a graduate of Harvard College and Oxford University, attending the latter on a Rhodes Scholarship. He was a consultant at the management consulting firm McKinsey from 2007 to 2010.[4] From 2009 to 2017, he was a naval intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant. He was deployed to Afghanistan for seven months in 2014 and was awarded the Joint Service Commendation Medal. Before running for office, Buttigieg worked on the political campaigns of the Democrats Jill Long Thompson, Joe Donnelly, and John Kerry. Buttigieg was the 32nd mayor of South Bend, Indiana, from January 2012 to January 2020. Buttigieg publicly came out as gay in 2015 and was reelected with over 80% of the vote. Buttigieg launched his campaign for the 2020 United States presidential election on April 14, 2019. He became the first openly gay person to launch a major presidential campaign.[9] Despite initially low expectations, he gained significant momentum in mid-2019 when he participated in several town halls, forums, and debates. Buttigieg narrowly won the pledged delegate count in the Iowa caucuses and tied the pledged delegate count in the New Hampshire is the first openly gay candidate to earn presidential primary delegates from a major American political party. After placing a distant fourth in South Carolina, Buttigieg dropped out of the race on March 1, 2020.
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