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South Bend, Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg announced the end of his run for president over the weekend, further narrowing down the list of Democratic presidential candidates Americans have to choose from.
Buttigieg made history as the first openly gay candidate to jump into the Democratic presidential race. He was also one of the youngest candidate3s to run at only 38 years old. Aside from being a mayor and a veteran, Buttigieg is a graduate of both Harvard and Oxford, a Rhodes scholar, and a polyglot who can speak English, French, Spanish, Italian, Maltese, and Norwegian, to name a few languages. He can also play the piano and the guitar.
There have been several highlights to the Buttigieg campaign, one of which was becoming the first out gay politician to take part in a presidential debate. He accomplished this by reaching the 65,000 donor goal required by the Democratic Party for a candidate to participate in official debates. Another highlight was him narrowly beating out Bernie Sanders during the Iowa caucus.
However, his campaign faced some difficulties, especially with Black voters and queer and trans voters. The biggest blow to his campaign was his loss in the South Carolina primary, which really showed his lack of support among Black voters.
Buttigieg drew attention early on during a CNN Town Hall where he compared himself to the current president and vice president of the United States, saying that he has more government experience, more executive government experience, and military experience.
Last month, Buttigieg also gained attention for his looks after photos of him with a beard started circulating on the internet and drew attention from netizens. The hashtag #BeardedButtigieg had comments like “Make Pete Bearded Again!” and a Twitter user saying that it was tome to “bring the beard back to the Oval Office.”
I always felt, besides his other issues, his “religiousness” could rub people the wrong way. I know we also have spiritual/ religious gay and bi men, but honestly, if I wanted to vote for someone because of his faith, I would vote republican, which I never will do. Religion has no place in politics.
WOW!..never knew there were SO many Gay “Trump” supporters on here….kinda scary.
What are you so scared of? Afraid Trump is going to round up all the gays, put them into pink stripped pajamas and grind them up into sparkle farkle? Grow up. You act like the man has never been around gay people. He’s from NY for fuck sake.
Wow, what a funny ‘allusion’ you create … oh wait … maybe not so funny becaue that shit IS happening right now in Russia and Ukraine, in Middle Eastern countries a family might kill a child for showing ‘signs of being gay’ … etc etc etc, you think your fearless leader is different? Instead of telling Andre to grow up, why dont you WAKE UP! Homophobia is real and it kills and it continues killing to this day. So sick of you privileged American gay gays who think, I made it, they can make it too!
Butt pulled the plug
In MO to much focus on being gay and that dumb ass facial hair and questions about his donors , questions about his record as Mayor and the accounting system develop by him for counting votes his relationship with black people in his community he never had a chance
Buttigieg probably helped the gay community by representing himself so well during the campaign. However, I think that if he had won the nomination, cultural conservatives would have a field day portraying him and his husband in a very unflattering light, asserting that a gay couple was unsuitable to represent our country. Even Trump-hating conservatives might have had a hard time voting for Buttigieg, because, after all, they’re still conservative.
You cant get the “Democratic” nomination without the BLACK vote!!! He must have been told that a million times?!?…seems to have done NOTHING about it!?…No real reach out NOTHING?!…seemed “Tone def” to this advice not to mention the trouble in his own home town with some African Americans…”bye Felicha”!!!!!
Pete and his campaign made huge strides in an effort to reach the black and brown communities. You apparently were not paying attention. Check out his website and read about the Douglass Plan; research all of the notable black people that endorsed and/or supported him publicly. Pete was simply an unknown quantity and in less than one year, became a top tier candidate — an amazing feat!
I agree!
Were you paid by the Pete campaign? God no wonder why he pulled out.
Pete ran a bad campaign period he was not able to hold his own in a public forum and the real issue can’t be covered up with some lame ass excuses
At-the-end-of-the-day, when-all is-said-and-done… His “Raison d Etre” was his “Homosexuality” not his qualifications. His dropping-out-of-the-race, actually, will do more harm to his reputation as a leader who bragged that he was more qualified than Trump…only show that his ego and what hangs between his legs and who he sits upon, were his only qualifications! The Candidates will drop out, also, as it becomes, increasing clear, that Sanders will become The Democraptic Candidate because he is promising to everyone that all will be free, while he will sell, both Jew & Gentile, down-the-river as he will play Robin Hood: rob from… Read more »
I haven’t liked any of the Democratic candidates, because they are all zionists. I would have hoped with Mayor Pete knowing what discrimination feels like, he would have come out in favor of the Palestinian rights (it’s their land, after all, despite what propagandists say otherwise), and I was disappointed he wasn’t enlightened. I’m voting for Bloomberg in tomorrow’s Super Tuesday. I realize he’s a zionist too, but all of them are. What I like about Bloomberg is he tried to cut down smoking with all the strict laws. We need far more strict laws on smoking, we have had… Read more »
That is or was the problem you can’t run on being the first openly gay politician cause after a while people don’t give a fuck and at the end of the day he’s still a white man in America I don’t know if your joking with the Bloomberg reason but if that’s only reason your going to vote for him keep it
Bloomberg, Tulsi & Yang were/are the only 3 at least partially-decent people in the race. everyone else running is pure adulterated trash. and people around the world wonder why the united states is screwed up, the voters keep putting in fools as “leaders” of the party. keep laughing at yourself, ignorance is bliss. continue your Islamophobic garbage, moron. you white people are disappearing, as all the other races continue multiplying.
Bloomberg ? LOL the guy who voted for Bush Jr TWICE ? and bragged about imprisoning young black and latin men , that racist Openly ZIONIST tard .. sure ., u r in pipe dream bud
like they say, old dogs cant be taught new tricks. idiots cant be educated. you probably dont even know what a book is.
So, you and Bloomturd both like to control other people’s lives, huh? I assume you want to take my gun away as well? Come get it.
you gun nuts never have any common sense. you are proud to call dylan klebold and eric harris as your role models. mass murders at schools and elsewhere happen nearly everyday in the united states, and the world wonders why is the united states so screwed up, its because of the 2nd amendment. that amendment needs removal as it was only put there so that people couldnt be prosecuted for the british invasion. if you love guns so much why dont you put it to your temple and pull the trigger?
Bloomberg is a nanny in all regards. This isn’t about guns, its all personal freedoms, including if you want a large soda or not.
If you want to spend less money, go to walmart and get a 2 liter of soda, its about 86 cents, you cunt-servatives whine about everything. You are not intelligent enough to make any logical statements. Bloomberg was trying to help reduce the obesity epidemic. You prefer to let obesity stay out of control, all the while taxpayers end up paying for it, which means you prefer taking hard-earned money from people that can barely survive as it is. I don’t like seeing obese people everywhere, as I would prefer them be healthy. People worldwide laugh at fools like you,… Read more »
Yeah and it’s us cunt-servatives with our guns that will protect your right to talk out your ass. 😀
the one talking out the ass is yourself, men “proud” of their guns, do so because their penis is either tiny, or they are impotent, if not both.
I’m so disappointed and saddened. I was hoping to vote either Buttigieg or Yang, but both dropped. Racist America is not ready for a gay, female, Asian, Jew, Muslim, or other minorities yet. It took 200 years to have a Black president and the racist people turned his term in office into Hell. Many of you may not know but Obama got a lot of dead threats during his presidency. Regardless of some of their quirks, Bill Clinton and Barrack Obama were 2 of the best US presidents ever and the economy flourished under both reigns. We’re left with bunch… Read more »
I agree, I was a bit sad too. But USA, especially states voting “Dump” are def not ready for a gay man as president.
Come one the amount of articles, tweets, etc and outrage from “gay” sources bashing him for not being the “right” kind of gay were louder than any “conservative” I know. The problem with identity politics is and will be this, and they will continue to eat their own.
In the famous words of Katie Hopkins, I’d take a pussy-grabber in office over a pussy anyday!
The article was approved by the Plug for Prez campaign… Suck up article for a suck site it would seem. I would never vote for someone that’s whole platform is “I’m Gay”. Might as well write in RuPaul. Oh yeah, the ‘I was a soldier, an sheeit’ thing. The Gay John Wayne angle. No thanks, Peet. There are more important nation issues than that. Peet’s record as a mayor is all we have on him, and that was lacking to put it mildly. If he couldn’t run a town, good luck on a country. Also, he seems like a push… Read more »
I posted your comment to show how stupid you sound. Especially coming from a gay man.
And just as stupid as the so called moderator who picks and chooses what HE wants to post? First Amendment only respected if you agree? There can never be a debate when one side censors the other.
Yep, I dont approve comments that are impolite, mean, bully another user, or Adam4Adam. So keep that in mind hennnnny and you might be published.
Interesting how you allowed a few of those you said you disallow. “hennnnny”/, well now how impolite and mean and borderline bullying are you?
I’m not hennnny! Just saying the facts!
“Someone that’s whole platform is…”? What the hell are you speaking there?
It’s all a legal dog & pony show, no matter who the people want to be their candidate the DNC dictates who THEY will run.
It’ll be decades before this country is ready for a queen in the White House. The darn redecorating bill would be more than a complete overhaul of the infrastructure…TRUMP 2020
Being gay doesn’t qualify a man to be POTUS. One thing all of these meat heads running for Democrat nomination have in common, none of them have a plan to restore America to greatness, they simply trash Trump and think that is adequate.
Trump is a friend to the gay community and he’s fine right where he us at. MAGA!
Could you just imagine Alfie Neuman at the negotiation table with Putin, China or the Saudis…….
He practically wasn’t even gay though. Acted just like a standard straight guy. Did nothing to promote gay issues. Only appealed to some white people and too much of a centrist.
And thus the issue with identity politics raises its head… practically wasn’t even gay. He’s married to another man… that makes him a … homosexual. This is such a joke.
thank god, he was terrible. no one can do a better job than trump
Good riddens!
The word is “riddance.”
To win the nomination… Being military wasn’t enough. Being young wasn’t enough. Being good looking wasn’t enough. Being the mayor of a larger city wasn’t enough. Being gay wasn’t enough. Being married wasn’t enough. Criticising President Trump wasn’t enough. Putting them all in one package wasn’t enough. Like Hillary Clinton in 2016 and other flailing candidates now, he didn’t demonstrate an explosive ability to make things happen, even in the face of resistance. He didn’t demonstrate he had an agenda for US growth with a broad appeal. Heard a new Vice President Biden ad this morning …”take us back to… Read more »
they will defeat that bastard, for sure! #TrumpOut
Hunter0500:
He never had enough…because he wasn’t much!
What did he have?; what did he offer?; What did he say?; What did he do?; What was his Platform?; What did he understand?; What did he know?
Therefore, he wasn’t enough…because there was never enough to do anything…except…exist proclaim his conceit. That is all he did and every thing he could do!
Now, he and the other dropout, are bashing Sanders and upholding Biden. Biden has no platform but Sanders does.
He was unelectable. The Democrats want the votes of “the gays”, but no way in hell do they want one of “the gays” as president. The Democrats are botching 2020 to hell and back by supporting old bitches and hate-mongering old men. The irony is that if you’re gay, Republicans actually care about you far more than the party of tokenism.
This guy never had a chance in hell of winning. Every single Dem running wants to attack your Constitutional rights. Leave our Constitution the hell alone!
Congrats to a historic campaign! For giving young gay boys hope, seeing a gay man running for president will inspire young gay men that anything is possible. Hope to see and hear more from him and Chasten! <3
The guy was never going to be President, never even had a chance in hell. This was nothing more than a vanity project for him to score some book deal or Netflix special. In fact, those checks probably came through last weekend so he and his husband can live off that money for the rest of their lives now.
I’m surprised so many voters yesterday threw their vote away on Alzheimer’s Joe. It was bad enough having Reagan with Alzheimer’s, we don’t need Reagan Part 2. He’s so dumb and incoherent he is a drunken slob, unable to put a decent sentence together. He should have dropped out after his pathetic showings in Iowa and New Hampshire. The only people that voted for him are other people with Alzheimer’s themselves. Senile Biden needs to go a’hidin’, in a nursing home and stay there.
Shakir: He is campaigning because he needs a Catharsis. His son died from a Brain Tumor and Biden needs to deal with his grief. Under Obama, you never saw or heard Biden because Obama kept him busy. In the military, the morons are given something-to-do! And so, Biden is giving himself something-to-do. Yes, he won some of The Southern States because the Minorities assumed that Biden’s Platform will be the same as Obama. Making an assumption is a sign of ignorance, particularly, in this case…as Biden has no platform…so it will be reasonable to assume that those minorities voted for… Read more »
I don’t like Bernie, he’s the same age as Alzheimer’s Joe, but at least Bernie is sharp and able to converse. Alzheimer’s Joe can’t–Alzheimer’s Joe reminds me of Stuart from MADTV–a mental midget that is funny in a tragic way. I get so sick of hearing Bernie talking about Social Security. SS needs to fall. Let people keep their own money, instead of stealing it for “future use”, its going to collapse, unless the government raises more taxes to prolong it. All the money that people have invested thus far in SS needs to have it returned. Legislation needs to… Read more »
luv u Petey baby!! ♥♥♥
hope you make another run for the prez in 2028!!