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Pete
Buttigieg, a.k.a. "Mayor Pete," is the only millennial candidate in the
2020 race—and if elected, he'd be the youngest president in American
history. Despite his youth and local experience, a loyal band of
supporters have gathered around the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana,
who is openly gay and married to husband Chasten Glezman
(who now goes by Chasten Buttigieg on social media). It's not hard to
see why: Pete, a veteran and scholar, is charismatic and whip-smart, and
has been described as the future of the Democratic party by Obama himself.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
broke congressional tradition by introducing President Donald Trump as
only "the president of the United States."
Previous House
speakers have introduced the sitting commander in chief by saying they
had the "high privilege and distinct honor of presenting to you the
president of the United States."
Pelosi gave President George W. Bush the full introduction in the 2007 State of the Union address.
House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi broke congressional tradition by introducing
President Donald Trump as only "the president of the United States"
during the State of the Union address on Tuesday evening.
"Members
of Congress, the president of the United States," Pelosi said,
introducing Trump in front of the joint session of Congress.
Previous
House speakers have introduced the sitting commander in chief by saying
they had the "high privilege and distinct honor of presenting to you
the president of the United States."
Republican House Speaker Dennis Hastert of Illinois introduced President Bill Clinton with all the formalities in 1999, when Clinton, like Trump, was facing his impeachment trial.
Paul Ryan, the GOP former House speaker from Wisconsin, similarly introduced President Barack Obama in the 2016 State of the Union address. (Though Ryan's introduction of Trump in 2018 reportedly
raised a few eyebrows after he mistakenly said he had the privilege of
"preventing" the president, before quickly correcting himself.)
During
last year's State of the Union address, it was Trump who appeared to
break tradition by starting his speech after shaking hands with Vice
President Mike Pence and Pelosi but before the House leader could make a
formal introduction.
When asked about the 2019 incident, Pelosi reportedly denied it was a snub.
"What do you mean? I introduced him," Pelosi said, at the time, according to The Hill. "I did introduce him. I said, 'Members of Congress, I present you the president of the United States.' There was no snub."
A caucusgoer in Iowa retracted her support for Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg and asked if she could take her preference card back after learning that he's in a same-sex relationship.
The
interaction occurred between two women in the middle of a caucus event
Monday night and was captured in a video that went viral.
In the
video, one woman is wearing a pin that labels her a "precinct captain"
for the Buttigieg campaign. The other woman is wearing a Buttigieg
sticker and a bright-green pin for the campaign of Minnesota Sen. Amy
Klobuchar.
"So are you saying that he has a same-sex partner?" the second woman asks in the video.
"Yes," the Buttigieg organizer says.
"Well then I don't want anybody like that in the White House," the woman says before asking if she can get her card back.
According to McClatchy,
organizers distribute preference cards out to the caucusgoers so that
the organizers can determine the viability of a candidate. The woman
presumably asked for her card back so she could change her preference
for another candidate.
In
the video, the Buttigieg organizer seems to want to find out if she can
help the other caucusgoer revise her support. But she also suggests
that the other woman stick with Buttigieg, saying his sexual orientation
"shouldn't really matter."
"Well, he better read the Bible," the woman says.
The
woman also asks in the video why Buttigieg, a former Indiana mayor who
has been open about his position as the first major openly gay candidate
for president, hasn't discussed his sexuality more, adding that she had
never heard he was gay.
"It's common knowledge," the Buttigieg organizer says in the video.
The
supporter of the 38-year-old former mayor tells the woman it shouldn't
matter if a candidate is a man, a woman, gay, or straight and urges the
woman to caucus based on whether she agrees with what the former mayor
stands for.
"It all just went right down the toilet is where it all just went," the woman says.
Buttigieg married his husband,
Chasten, a high-school drama teacher, in June 2018, a few years after
they began dating in 2015. Chasten Buttigieg would be the nation's first
"first gentleman" if his husband were elected, and he said he would use
his platform to reform public schools.
Buttigieg came out as gay in 2015, when he was 33 years old, according to The New York Times.
It's not clear if the caucusgoer was able to change her selection Monday night.
The Buttigieg campaign did not respond to Business Insider's request for comment. Read more: The
nonprofit that initially took credit for 'launching' the Iowa caucus
app developer quietly changed its website to distance itself from the
controversial tech Pete
Buttigieg is backtracking his victory speech from Iowa, noting that he
doesn't have any official numbers but that it's 'extraordinary' that his
campaign made it this far From the wealthy to Wall Street, here's how the 2020 Democrats would redraw the US tax code with their plans Pete Buttigieg is a trailblazing presidential candidate. But for his supporters, his identity is in the background.
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