Meet 37-year-old Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg, who could become the youngest US president in history via CNBCMakeIt
In January, Pete Buttigieg —"Mayor Pete" to his constituents in South Bend, Indiana — announced he had formed an exploratory committee for a 2020 presidential bid in a video titled"A New Generation of Leadership."
While his policies are informed by his personal experiences, he's banking on the fact that voters from every part of the ideological spectrum will care more about finding pragmatic solutions to huge challenges — the skill he prides himself on — than any of that. He thinks it's the proverbial ticking clock of crises like climate change and crushing student debt that's made younger voters more amenable to creative problem-solving and less adverse to policies that might be quickly dismissed by older voters as smacking of socialism.
"College is supposed to be the gateway to the middle class for a lot of Americans," says Buttigieg."Beginning with the G.I. Bill, more people of any background could access education, and with it a better standard of living. Now, it's almost become a marker of whatever class you already come from, when you look at the disparities of who can get in and who completes college and who could afford it.
"When the most important thing in your life, your marriage, exists by the grace of a single vote on the Supreme Court, you have a very personal understanding of what's at stake in American politics." A Morning Consult poll of over 150,000 registered Democrats conducted between March 4th and 10th found that just 1 percent of voters considered Buttigieg their top candidate. A majority — 62 percent — hadn't heard of him.
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