Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana — the first ndidate who is a lennial, openly gay and an Afghan War veteran, jos the 2020 printial race, sayg, "our untry needs a h start."
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- MEET PETE BUTTIGIEG: A GAY MAYOR, AFGHAN WAR VET AND LENNIAL WHO'S NNG FOR PRINT
- GAY, SGLE, DIVORCED, REMARRIED: DEMOCRATIC NDIDAT REFLECT THE CHANGG AMERIN FAY
MEET PETE BUTTIGIEG: A GAY MAYOR, AFGHAN WAR VET AND LENNIAL WHO'S NNG FOR PRINT
* gay democratic candidates 2020 *
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GAY, SGLE, DIVORCED, REMARRIED: DEMOCRATIC NDIDAT REFLECT THE CHANGG AMERIN FAY
Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, beme the first openly gay ndidate the 2020 printial race Wednday, jog an already crowd field of Democratic hopefuls. “I’m om the Midwt, so the issu of makg sure that we have a posive way forward for workers and fai the dtrial Midwt — this is not theoretil for me, ’s my home, ” Buttigieg Buttigieg were to overe the long odds and bee the Democratic nomee for print, he would be the first openly gay nomee and the first veteran of the Afghanistan War, where he served a tour as a Naval Rerve officer. “I was well to adulthood before I was prepared to acknowledge the simple fact that I am gay, ” Buttigieg wrote at the time.