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March 1, 2020 / 11:25 PM / a day ago
'MAYOR PETE' BUTTIGIEG ENDS IMPROBABLE U.S. PRESIDENTIAL BID
Michael Martina , Jarrett Renshaw
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DETROIT (Reuters) - Pete Buttigieg, who entered the Democratic
presidential race as a relative unknown and positioned himself as the
future of the party during an improbable rise to the top tier of a
crowded field, ended his White House bid on Sunday.
Buttigieg, 38, a former two-term mayor of South Bend, Indiana, an
Afghanistan war veteran and the first openly gay candidate to make a
competitive run for the U.S. presidency, narrowly won the Iowa
caucuses that kicked off the nominating race in February and finished
a close second in New Hampshire.
But his early momentum from those rural, mostly white states did not
translate into electoral success in the more diverse states of Nevada
and South Carolina.
After finishing a distant third in the Nevada caucuses, Buttigieg came
in fourth on Saturday in South Carolina, where he won support from
just 3% of African-American voters.
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The centrist Democrat’s withdrawal from the race could help former
Vice President Joe Biden, a fellow moderate who got a much-needed
victory on Saturday and now is looking to wrest momentum from liberal
front-runner Bernie Sanders in this week’s 14-state Super Tuesday
nominating contests.
Speaking in South Bend, Buttigieg said his campaign began its
“unlikely journey” with a staff of four, no big email lists and no
personal fortune.
“We got into this race in order to defeat the current president and
in order to usher in a new kind of politics,” Buttigieg told a crowd
of supporters. Now, he said, it was time to “step aside and help
bring our party and our country together.”
In a tweet, Biden said Buttigieg had run a “trail-blazing campaign
based on courage, compassion, and honesty,” adding: “This is just
the beginning of his time on the national stage.”
FILE PHOTO: Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidate former South
Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg attends a campaign event in
Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S., February 29, 2020. Picture taken
February 29, 2020. REUTERS/Eric Thayer
Buttigieg had sought to unite Democrats, independents and moderate
Republican voters, arguing his status as a Washington outsider could
rebuild a majority to defeat Republican President Donald Trump in
November’s election.
But he faced persistent questions about his ability to win over black
voters, a core Democratic voting bloc.
Buttigieg’s tenure as South Bend mayor, which ended on Jan. 1, drew
scrutiny for a lack of diversity on the local police force and a fatal
shooting of a black resident by a police officer. He also lacked
Biden’s national profile or long-standing relationships with the
black community.
HISTORIC CAMPAIGN
Buttigieg would have been the first openly gay major-party
presidential nominee in U.S. history. He did not make his sexuality a
centerpiece of his candidacy, although his husband, Chasten Buttigieg,
a teacher he married in 2018, regularly accompanied him on the
campaign trail.
Buttigieg, often referred to simply as “Mayor Pete,” promised a
departure from the politics of the past. As a “proud son” of
Indiana, he argued he could speak directly to voters struggling
economically in crucial swing states such as Michigan and Wisconsin
that handed Trump the presidency in 2016.
A U.S. Navy veteran who often spoke of his military service and
Christian faith, Buttigieg was critical of Sanders’ uncompromising
liberal proposals, which Buttigieg warned could alienate moderate
Democratic voters ahead of “the fight of our lives” to unseat
Trump.
At the televised debate ahead of the South Carolina primary, Buttigieg
said Sanders’ shifting estimates to fund proposals such as a
government-run healthcare system for all would doom the Democratic
Party in November.
“I can tell you exactly how it all adds up. It adds up to four more
years of Donald Trump,” Buttigieg said.
Buttigieg had considerable early success in fundraising, proving
popular with the Hollywood and big-tech money scenes. He came under
fire from Democratic competitors, including Senator Elizabeth Warren,
who questioned whether he was beholden to his big-money donors and
criticized his ritzy, closed-door fundraiser in a wine cave in
California.
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His campaign, however, faced tighter purse strings after heavy
investments in the first two voting states and raised only $6 million
in January. Sanders, by comparison, raised $25 million the same month.
Before Biden’s South Carolina win, Buttigieg had argued he was the
only candidate who had proven he could beat Sanders in state contests.
His campaign had laid out a strategy to get through Super Tuesday
contests and focus on later primaries where it believed it had an
edge.
That changed as the race remained outsized and questions mounted about
possibly non-viable contenders splitting moderate votes to give
Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, an easy path to the
nomination. A campaign aide told Reuters that Buttigieg was not going
to be a “spoiler” who helped Sanders win.
Still, his decision to drop out before Super Tuesday caught some
supporters by surprise. Buttigieg spent the day in Selma, Alabama,
commemorating a landmark civil rights march in 1965. A big crowd had
gathered later on Sunday for the candidate’s scheduled event in
Dallas when they learned he was no longer coming.
Reporting by Michael Martina, Jarrett Renshaw, Joey Roulette and Eric
Thayer; Editing by Colleen Jenkins and Peter Cooney
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