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My Name is Pete Buttigieg. They call me Mayor Pete. I’m a proud son of South Bend Indiana and I’m running for the president of the United States. 37-year-old Pete Buttigieg is a graduate of Harvard and Oxford. He’s an Afghanistan war veteran and he speaks seven languages. If he was elected, he will be America’s youngest president, but at a recent appearance in New Hampshire he said his message which is focused on the future of the nation appeals to all demographics. We’re also seeing people of my parents’ age who would love nothing more than to support the kind of generational changes which are gonna keep our eyes on issues that are gonna matter in the future.

Buttigieg would also be America openly gay president. His husband Chasten has also won over many American voters. As for my husband, you know, obviously I’m pretty biased cuz I love him, ut it’s pretty great to see that the rest of America starting to follow him up.
What Buttigieg lacks is political experience on the national stage. He currently serves as mayor of South Bend, a city of just over a hundred thousand people, but his supporters don’t seem to care.
I mean he’s been a mayor for almost eight years now. I think the executive experience is valuable for the executive branch, and I think in terms of legislative experience, he could have helped from his team for that. Even though he doesn’t have national experience, he has executive experience as a mayor of the city and I just feel it can connect with a lot of big issues as well. Buttigieg has been surging in recent polls in key states, and has raised a respectable seven million dollars in the first quarter; whether he can sustain that momentum is yet to be seen.
Sometimes, candidates have a few weeks or a few months of stardom, and then another candidate replaces that, so I think we know that he’s viable. I don’t think we know at this point that he’s going to be a star in the field. Over the next year, Buttigieg must compete with at least 18 other Democrats vying to become the party’s nominee to unseat President Donald Trump in 2020.
Esha Sarai, VOA News, Washington.