Pete Buttigieg Officially Launches 2020 Presidential Bid: LIVE VIDEO

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Pete Buttigieg Officially Launches 2020 Presidential Bid: LIVE VIDEO

Presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg officially launches his campaign today from South Bend, Indiana, where he is mayor. Watch it live on the video below starting at approximately 2 pm ET. Click HERE to open this post in a new window.

Buttigieg, an Afghanistan war veteran and Rhodes Scholar who would be the nation’s first openly gay president if elected, this week surged to third place (11 percent) in a new New Hampshire poll of Democratic voters, behind Joe Biden (23 percent) and Bernie Sanders (16 percent).

Buttigieg was also polling third in Iowa: “A Monmouth University poll of likely Democratic caucusgoers in Iowa, out Thursday, finds Biden at the top of the pack with 27% support, Sanders at 16%, Buttigieg at 9%, Sens. Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren at 7%, former Rep. Beto O’Rourke at 6%, Sen. Amy Klobuchar at 4%, Sen. Cory Booker at 3%, and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro at 2%. The rest of the field stood at 1% or less in the poll, with a sizable 12% saying they are undecided among the 24 candidates tested in the poll.”

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Almost ready for our special announcement here in South Bend. A little rain won’t keep this crew down. We’ll be live at 1:45 pm EDT. Join us: t.co/1cjCyKIllH. Míralo en vivo: t.co/vFnaxmDZ1k. pic.twitter.com/C4PfYFemCc

— Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) April 14, 2019

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