Buttigieg to Drop Out of Presidential Race, According to NY Times

Buttigieg to Drop Out of Presidential Race, According to NY Times

The New York Times is reporting that former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg is dropping out of the Presidential race.

"Pete Buttigieg, the former small-city Indiana mayor and first openly gay major presidential candidate, has decided to quit the Democratic race, a person briefed on Mr. Buttigieg’s plans said on Sunday, following a crushing loss in the South Carolina primary where his poor performance with black Democrats signaled an inability to build a broad coalition of voters.

Mr. Buttigieg, 38, narrowly won the Iowa caucuses early last month and came in a strong second place in the New Hampshire primary, exciting liberal white Democrats with his cool, hyper-articulate manner. But he never broadened his breadth of support in a party with a nonwhite base, and one that has veered leftward since 2018," reported the NYT. 

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This report comes one day after Buttigieg finished 4th in the South Carolina Democratic primary.