Pete Buttigieg

He was Mayor of South Bend from 2012 to 2020 and U.S. Secretary of Transportation from 2021 to 2025. He sought the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. He is named among the possible candidates in the 2028 U.S. presidential election, scheduled for 7 November 2028.

Career

Buttigieg graduated from Harvard in 2004 and, as a Rhodes Scholar, from Oxford in 2007, then worked as a McKinsey consultant from 2007 to 2010. He lost the 2010 race for Indiana State Treasurer with 37.5% of the vote, then won the South Bend mayoralty in 2011 with 74% and was re-elected in 2015 with 80%. He served in the Navy Reserve from 2009 to 2017, including seven months in Afghanistan in 2014. In 2020 he won the Iowa caucuses, finished second in New Hampshire and ended his campaign on 1 March. He was Transportation Secretary from 2021 to 2025.

Positions

Wikipedia describes Buttigieg as supporting climate action and infrastructure investment, racial equity in transportation policy and LGBT rights, and as promoting what he calls democratic capitalism and regulatory reform. He is the first openly gay Cabinet secretary and the first openly gay candidate to win a presidential primary contest. Wikipedia reports he is considering a 2028 presidential run.

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