Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg ( /ˈbʊtɪdʒɪdʒ/ BUUT-ih-jij; born January 19, 1982) is an American politician and former military officer who has served as mayor of South Bend, Indiana since 2012. He is running for the Democratic Party nomination in the 2020 United States presidential election.\n', '

After graduating from Harvard University, and then from Pembroke College, Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship, Buttigieg worked as a consultant at McKinsey and Company. From 2009 to 2017 he served as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant and deploying to Afghanistan in 2014.\n', '

Buttigieg was elected mayor of South Bend in 2011 and reelected in 2015. Before his reelection, he came out publicly as gay. On April 14, 2019, Buttigieg announced his campaign for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States in 2020, after having formed an exploratory committee in January 2019. His platform includes support for reducing income inequality, pro-environmental policies, cooperation between the Democratic Party and organized labor, universal background checks for firearms purchases, the Equality Act, and preserving the DACA program for children of illegal immigrants. Buttigieg also supports reforms that would end gerrymandering, overturn the Citizens United v. FEC decision, and abolish the Electoral College.\n', '

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