Buttigieg supporter asks to take back vote after learng he’s gay | The Hill

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• BUTTIGIEG RPONDS TO IOWA VOTER WHO PULLED HER SUPPORT AFTER REALIZG HE'S GAY
• IOWA UCGOER PULLS BUTTIGIEG VOTE AFTER LEARNG HE'S GAY, VIRAL VIO SHOWS
• VIRAL VIO SHOWS IOWA VOTER CHANGG HER MD WHEN SHE LEARNS PETE BUTTIGIEG IS GAY: 'ARE YOU KIDDG?'
• PETE BUTTIGIEG RPONDS TO IOWA VOTER WHO WHDREW SUPPORT AFTER REALIZG HE'S GAY
• BUTTIGIEG SUPPORTER ASKS TO TAKE BACK VOTE AFTER LEARNG HE’S GAY
• PETE BUTTIGIEG RPONDS TO IOWA WOMAN WHO TOOK HER VOTE BACK WHEN SHE LEARNED HE WAS GAY
• IOWA UC: VOTER EAKS OUT AFTER LEARNG PETE BUTTIGIEG IS GAY
• IOWA SEN. JONI ERNST FENDS GAY-MARRIAGE VOTE AS GOP UNTY GROUPS MOVE TO CENSURE HER

BUTTIGIEG RPONDS TO IOWA VOTER WHO PULLED HER SUPPORT AFTER REALIZG HE'S GAY

Buttigieg then turned to a faiar stump speech that touched upon his stat as a gay outsir. Nor did the March appearance on ABC’s “The View” or a year’s worth of digal and televisn news was not until Monday night — after stg her uc vote for printial hopeful Pete Buttigieg — that an Iowa Democratic uc voter, known only as “Geert, ” first learned that the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is gay and married a man 2018. ”Van n Heever remaed lm and rpond by sayg, “I gus what I would like you to jt dig ep si and thk, should matter if 's a woman or if 's a man or if they’re heterosexual or homosexual if you believe what they say?

I had no ia that she was a homophobe, ” Hubka wrote a separate tweet. She went over to Pete and found out he was gay so she took her rd and moved on to Warren.

Acrdg to Park’s viral vio of what happened next, the woman was surprised to learn that Buttigieg is gay and she didn’t want to vote for him bee of . While Park did not intify the homophobic voter, she said the worker, a precct pta charge of marshalg Buttigieg supporters at the uc se, was Nikki van n Heever.

IOWA UCGOER PULLS BUTTIGIEG VOTE AFTER LEARNG HE'S GAY, VIRAL VIO SHOWS

Acrdg to her vio of the nversatn, which picks up partway through, the voter appears to realize the middle of the uc that Buttigieg, 38, is gay.

” the woman asks, wh obv surprise, after beg told that Buttigieg is gay. While Heever then go about figurg out the exact procre for returng the woman’s vote to her, Heever also mak a fense of Buttigieg, who is the first major printial ndidate who is openly gay.

“What I would like you to jt dig ep si and thk, Should matter if ’s a man or if ’s a woman or if they’re heterosexual or homosexual if you believe what they say?

VIRAL VIO SHOWS IOWA VOTER CHANGG HER MD WHEN SHE LEARNS PETE BUTTIGIEG IS GAY: 'ARE YOU KIDDG?'

Elizabeth Warren, though Park tells PEOPLE the Warren supporters were unaware of the woman’s homophobic nvictns. “She jt don’t want a gay person the Whe Hoe, ” Hubka told CNBC.

PETE BUTTIGIEG RPONDS TO IOWA VOTER WHO WHDREW SUPPORT AFTER REALIZG HE'S GAY

Hubka said the voter also failed to pick up on the irony that her next choice of Warren — and all of the ndidat at the uc — support gay marriage. Nearly eight years after the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage and several months after Congrs dified gay nuptials, Iowa legislators proposed banng such unns their state nstutn.

Pete Buttigieg appld a mpaign volunteer for “tryg to reach out the name of passn” after beg nonted by an Iowa uc voter who rcd her ballot after realizg the Democratic printial ndidate is gay. An Iowa Democratic uc voter who agreed to back Pete Buttigieg on Monday night dramatilly rcd her support after beg stunned to learn what lns of people already knew about the former South Bend, Indiana, mayor — he's gay and married to another voter had been a supporter of Sen.

BUTTIGIEG SUPPORTER ASKS TO TAKE BACK VOTE AFTER LEARNG HE’S GAY

""I never heard , " the voter n Heever said, "I gus what I would like you to jt thk ep si and thk should matter if 's a man or if they're a woman or if they're heterosexual or homosexual if you believe what they say. TweetHubka said was ironic that the voter was so adamant about not supportg a gay ndidate, when Warren and every other Democratic ntenr support same-sex marriage. "She jt don't want a gay person the Whe Hoe, " Hubka said.

"Hubka said was a good thg for people to see the vio so that "people unrstand small town, ral muni we have people that aren't homophob. Buttigieg me out as gay a June 2015 op-ed for a lol South Bend newspaper, when the then-33-year-old Indiana native was nng to be reelected as the mayor of the a few months later, he began a relatnship wh junr high school teacher Chasten Buttigieg, nee Glezman, whom he had met through a datg app, Hge.

However, Buttigieg do not normally dwell on his sexualy his mpaign at a rally Iowa last week, he said that seeg the state legalize gay marriage 2009 gave him hope. An Iowa voter who had sought to support former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg the state’s troubled uc on Monday changed her md after learng he’s gay.

PETE BUTTIGIEG RPONDS TO IOWA WOMAN WHO TOOK HER VOTE BACK WHEN SHE LEARNED HE WAS GAY

“I would like you to jt dig ep si and thk, should matter if ’s a woman or if ’s a man or if they’re heterosexual or homosexual, if you believe what they say?

I had no ia that she was a homophobe. Buttigieg has noted the historic nature of his mpaign as the first openly gay major Democratic printial ndidate.

Earlier this week, an Iowa woman was seen a viral vio changg her md about votg for printial ndidate Pete Buttigieg when she found out he is gay. Appearg on The View on Thursday, Buttigieg was asked by -host Sunny Host about the homophobic voter and what he would say “to her and voters who feel the way that she do.

IOWA UC: VOTER EAKS OUT AFTER LEARNG PETE BUTTIGIEG IS GAY

Buttigieg, a former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and a Navy veteran, is the first major printial ndidate who is openly gay. A woman who’d jt signed a rd for Pete Buttigieg Monday’s chaotic Iowa uc eaked out moments later when she learned he is gay and married to another man — clarg “ all jt went right down the toilet.

IOWA SEN. JONI ERNST FENDS GAY-MARRIAGE VOTE AS GOP UNTY GROUPS MOVE TO CENSURE HER

A viral clip shows the unintified woman — wearg a green hoodie and nim jacket wh an Amy Klobuchar p — gog on an anti-gay rant and attemptg to take back her vote while a uc precct pta for Buttigieg tri to reason wh her. The former South Bend mayor has mpaigned openly as a married gay man om the begng of his n for the Whe Hoe April, and he and hband Chasten Buttigieg graced the ver of Time magaze May. Mariante Miller-Meeks, the censure says that same-sex marriage "clearly vlat the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God, the source of our rights, and th state regnn of homosexual unns will lead to numero tyranni beg imposed on our people.