Pete Buttigieg: The New Face of American Politics
An openly gay presidential hopeful, Buttigieg is hoping to make history.
By Emily Smith
In a segment of Real Time with Bill Maher at the start of the weekend, openly gay United States Secretary of Transportation and one-time presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg announced that he was running for president in 2020.
Buttigieg, who came out as he was pursuing his second term as mayor of his hometown, is hoping to become the nation's first openly gay presidential nominee of a major party. He has built his campaign around the idea of generational change. The youngest candidate in the presidential field, he says he would be a bridge to a new era of American politics.
According to a new Emerson College poll, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg is polling third behind Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders as a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate.
Comments