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Inside the Final Month of Buttigieg's Historic Campaign

Associated Press

   WASHINGTON - He opened February by sharing victory with one of the
   Democratic Party's best-known figures and ended it with a humbling
   defeat at the hands of another. Yet Pete Buttigieg's unlikely path over
   the last 30 days exceeded virtually everyone's expectations of his
   presidential ambitions, except perhaps his own.
   The former mayor of Indiana's fourth largest city, an openly gay
   38-year-old whose name most voters still can't pronounce, formally
   suspended his White House bid Sunday night. He did so acknowledging
   that he no longer had a viable path to the Democratic Party's
   presidential nomination, even after finishing in the top four in each
   of the first four contests of the 2020 primary season.
   "By every historical measure, we were never supposed to get anywhere at
   all,'' Buttigieg reminded his hometown crowd, which was disappointed
   and hopeful at the same time. The crowd interrupted his speech with
   chants of "2024."
   Buttigieg began the month effectively in a first-place tie with
   progressive powerhouse Bernie Sanders in Iowa's presidential caucuses.
   The mayor made history as the first openly gay candidate to earn a
   presidential delegate, never mind becoming the first to finish on top
   in any presidential primary contest.

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