Gay Mayor Tipped to Be Running for President in 2020
January 21, 2019The openly gay mayor of South Bend Indiana, Pete Buttigieg (pictured right, above), is rumoured to be considering a run for the American presidency in 2020, reports the Associated Press.
Buttigieg has already announced he won’t be seeking a third term as mayor, has visited the key primary state of Iowa, and has book coming out in the next month – all signs of a potential presidential candidate.
Buttigieg himself hinted at a run in an interview with the Associated Press: “I think most people are thinking: ‘Why not?’ They think all the rules have been broken, that anybody can run… I think some of the rules have been broken, but there’s only one way to find out which ones.”
He also told the Washington Post: “I get the urge people will have after Trump. ‘Look at the chaos and the exhaustion: Wouldn’t it be better to go back to something more stable with somebody we know?’ But there’s no going back to a pre-Trump universe.
“We can’t be saying the system will be fine again just like it was. Because that’s not true; it wasn’t fine. Not if we could careen into this kind of politics.
“The discussion in Washington has gotten so abstracted from reality.
“What makes a country great, really? We like to talk about ‘freedom’ and ‘security’ and ‘family values’ or whatever. But the measure of a country’s greatness is whether it helps people lead better lives, with less worry.”
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