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| − | ''''Peter (Paul Montgomery) Buttigieg ''' (pron. ''Peter Boota-judge''<ref>[https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=242106 Buttigieg, Pete]</ref> aka '''#MayorCheat''', '''Wall Street Pete''') was born January 19, 1982, and was the mayor of South Bend, [[Indiana]] from 2012 <ref>[https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/19/us/pete-buttigieg-fast-facts/index.html] Pete Buttigieg Fast Facts</ref> thru 2019.<ref>https://www.southbendtribune.com/news/local/first-priorities-for-new-south-bend-mayor-james-mueller-violent/article_10d48b22-2e67-11ea-b683-7fdc48f223f7.html</ref> Buttigieg was a leading 2020 Democrat Presidential candidate, hoping to become the first homosexual president with a male "wife" ("first gentlemen"). He and his boyfriend ("husband) also wanted to obtain a child while occupying the White House.<ref>CNSNews.com (February 13, 2020) [https://www.cnsnews.com/article/national/cnsnewscom-staff/buttigieg-says-he-and-same-sex-husband-hope-start-family-and-may] CNSNews.com. Retrieved February 13, 2020</ref> | + | ''''Peter (Paul Montgomery) Buttigieg ''' (pron. ''Peter Boota-judge''<ref>[https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=242106 Buttigieg, Pete]</ref> aka '''#MayorCheat''', '''Wall Street Pete''') was born January 19, 1982, and was the mayor of South Bend, [[Indiana]] from 2012 <ref>[https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/19/us/pete-buttigieg-fast-facts/index.html] Pete Buttigieg Fast Facts</ref> thru 2019.<ref>https://www.southbendtribune.com/news/local/first-priorities-for-new-south-bend-mayor-james-mueller-violent/article_10d48b22-2e67-11ea-b683-7fdc48f223f7.html</ref> Buttigieg was a leading 2020 Democrat Presidential candidate, hoping to become the first homosexual president with a male "wife" ("first gentlemen"). He and his boyfriend ("husband") also wanted to obtain a child while occupying the White House.<ref>CNSNews.com (February 13, 2020) [https://www.cnsnews.com/article/national/cnsnewscom-staff/buttigieg-says-he-and-same-sex-husband-hope-start-family-and-may] CNSNews.com. Retrieved February 13, 2020</ref> |
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| − | However, although he insisted March 1, 2020 on on NBC’s Meet the Press that “Every day we are in this campaign is a day that we have reached the conclusion that pushing forward is the best thing we can do for the country and for the party,”<ref>https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meet-press-march-1-2020-n1141381</ref> on the same day the New York Times and other sources reported that Buttigieg had decided to drop out of the Democratic race, after a steep loss in the South Carolina primary (8.2%) showed a poor performance with black Democrats and an inability to build a broad coalition of voters.<ref>Reid J. Epstein and Trip Gabriel (March 1, 2020). [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/01/us/politics/pete-buttigieg-drops-out.html Pete Buttigieg to Quit Democratic Presidential Race]New York Times. Retrieved, March 1, 2020 </ref> | + | However, although on March 1, 2020 he stated on NBC’s "Meet the Press" that, “Every day we are in this campaign is a day that we have reached the conclusion that pushing forward is the best thing we can do for the country and for the party,”<ref>https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meet-press-march-1-2020-n1141381</ref> on the same day the New York Times and other sources reported that Buttigieg had decided to drop out of the Democratic race, after a steep loss in the South Carolina primary (8.2%) showed a poor performance with black Democrats and an inability to build a broad coalition of voters.<ref>Reid J. Epstein and Trip Gabriel (March 1, 2020). [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/01/us/politics/pete-buttigieg-drops-out.html Pete Buttigieg to Quit Democratic Presidential Race]New York Times. Retrieved, March 1, 2020 </ref> |
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| | Buttigieg is the son of a first-generation immigrant from Malta and Jesuit seminarian turned secular pro-Marxist linguistics professor at Notre Dame, while his liberal mother was an Army brat who also was a linguist and professor at Notre Dame (and whose great-great-great-grandfather was a Jacksonian Democrat who owned slaves on native American-ceded land).<ref>Kyle Sammin (February 10, 2020). [https://thefederalist.com/2020/02/10/census-records-pete-buttigiegs-ancestor-owned-slaves-on-native-american-ceded-land] Census Records: Pete Buttigieg’s Ancestor Owned Slaves On Native American-Ceded Land, The Federalist. Retrieved Tue, 02/11/20.</ref> | | Buttigieg is the son of a first-generation immigrant from Malta and Jesuit seminarian turned secular pro-Marxist linguistics professor at Notre Dame, while his liberal mother was an Army brat who also was a linguist and professor at Notre Dame (and whose great-great-great-grandfather was a Jacksonian Democrat who owned slaves on native American-ceded land).<ref>Kyle Sammin (February 10, 2020). [https://thefederalist.com/2020/02/10/census-records-pete-buttigiegs-ancestor-owned-slaves-on-native-american-ceded-land] Census Records: Pete Buttigieg’s Ancestor Owned Slaves On Native American-Ceded Land, The Federalist. Retrieved Tue, 02/11/20.</ref> |