Pete Buttigieg at South Bend, Indiana HAPPENING NOW: Pete Buttigieg expected to announce suspension of his 2020 presidential campaign in remarks to supporters in South Bend, Indiana. To chants of "USA! USA!," Pete and Chasten Buttigieg greet each other ahead of Pete Buttigieg's expected announcement that he is suspending his 2020 campaign, ending an historic bid by the first openly gay man to seek the presidency.By every conventional wisdom, by every historical measure, we were never supposed to get anywhere at all...Along that way, an improbable hope became an undeniable reality. We found countless Americans ready to support a middle-class millennial mayor from the industrial Midwest, not in spite of that experience but because of it, eager to get Washington to start working like our best-run communities. We sent a message to every kid out there wondering if whatever marks them out as different means they are somehow destined to be less than...Someone who once fel
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