Pete Buttigieg Drops Out of Democratic Presidential Race

I listened to him and I was awe struck by not him but by the reaction of the people. Take any of his speech there is no substance, nor content, neither intelligence. He talks in hyperbole who know how to occupy sound waves. He is a master manipulator, extremely conniving devious individual pretending to be taking a high road but intent on remaining relevant. I think he is a magnitude more dangerous then Trump.

All these accolades? I never got what was so compelling to some about Mayor Pete. He never stood out in his ideas, he wasn't here or there. He could campaign well. But he had no real stand out service to show folks what a Buttigieg Administration would do. As the race wore on and Sanders moved into the lead, I watched the debates and Buttigieg grew more cocky and childish, talking over others, making snarky remarks. This said all one needed to know about him. No, he didn't resonate with black voters and why should he? His record in Indiana should have given everyone pause. He's sleeping on his endorsement to see what he can get out of it and I wonder what desperate Biden will promise to get it.

I always admired his comparison to President Trump: “I’m not scared of this president,” Mr. Buttigieg said on CNN. “I mean, this a guy who was working on season seven of ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ when I was driving armored vehicles outside the wire in Afghanistan. I’m not afraid to take him on.”

Dear Mayor Pete, You were my top pick. We will miss you this time around but we’re expecting we will see you again on the national stage soon. Thank you for your service to the nation and reminding us what a leader who would be very smart, very articulate, full of empathy and compassion would be like again. As President you would undoubtedly have worked to unite Americans again.

Pete has a bright future.

Swiss citizen here. Although I understand that Mr Buttigieg was not appealing to every democrat, I was particularly appaled by the comments I saw in youtube videos of his last speech in South Bend. You may not agree with his ideas, but to cast away people who are not "pure" in your eyes is not even childish, it is stupid and dangerous. To Bernie supporters that feel they can ostracize all that are not into the Revolution ideals: you will need every help you can get come November. And insulting people is not usually the best way to guarantee turnout. Be graceful, be respectful. Don't be like 2016 Hillary.

"Mr. Buttigieg, 38, skyrocketed from obscurity into the top tier of a field of more than two dozen Democratic presidential candidates largely on the strength of his robust fund-raising totals...." How about "...largely on the strength of his extraordinary intelligence, military service, eloquence, and ability to make his sexual orientation subordinate to his vision"?

Pete Buttigieg has shown us that he not only The Voice of Reason but lives in the Real World. I voted for Mayor Pete during early voting. Do I consider my vote wasted? NO I do not. Did the Fact that he is Gay effect my opinion of him? NO it did not. I found him to be The Calm Within the Storm with realistic answers. Too bad that type of Leadership does not translate into votes.

I understand people's passion for Buttigieg, Sanders and Warren. I don't understand how anyone feels passionately about Biden. He is a milquetoast candidate. Buttigieg won't change that by endorsing Biden. There is no transitive property of political enthusiasm.

I hope that, whoever the nominee is, they welcome Mayor Pete into their administration. He has a lot to offer. Where else can you find a Veteran Harvard alumnus who can argue Biblical passages with the Fundamentalist usurpers? If people feel he needs more experience before being elected President, let’s please give him that experience so he can eventually be elected.

Brilliant move. He won't have to clean up Trump's mess and he's laid the ground for a great future in politics. I felt that his running was more of a career move than a strong desire to win this one. He's got plenty of time.

Pete is a brilliant guy with a strong message. But it isn’t the right moment for him. He knows, along with the majority of Democrats, that this is the fight of a lifetime, to rid the world of Trump. It’s not a time for pie-in-the-sky fantasies about free everything. If Biden continues his strong appeal, Pete could be a potential VP or Cabinet member. I hope he throws his support to Joe. Biden isn’t a man of soaring rhetoric, but we need someone with his feet on the ground and his head away from the clouds.

Thank you mayor Pete for your continued service to our country. You had a terrific message, well delivered. I hope you stay engaged in national politics because you have made a difference and can continue to make a difference. You also"manned up" and made your decision at the right time, again for your country, not for yourself.

The "Mayor Pete is not gay enough" discourse is one of the most disgusting things I've seen coming from the Left lately. Pure homophobia: there's only one way to be gay, and we'll only defend you if you think exactly like us.

Buttigieg is showing us all the patriotic path forward for all the moderate candidates without a chance to win the election. Klobuchar and Bloomberg, with each moment they stay in the race, are revealing themselves to be self-deluded, narcissistic spoilers. Thank you for your service once again, Mayor Pete!

There is definitely a future for the US where Pete is President! That gives me hope.

He did achieve a broad coalition of voters in Iowa and NH. Two successes your headlines and reporting barely have him credit for. Maybe his coalition would have been broader if your reporting focused on his accomplishments and policies (<5 articles) versus pushing a narrative about his black support that you created before his campaign even had legs (5+ articles). And maybe if you treated him with seriousness and not dripping with condescension in every other election piece we would be looking at a different SC result. I fear the Dems and media really bungled their one chance at beating Trump.

If Pete supports Biden then it proves he wasn't presidential material. He would have no understanding of what's best for our country.

“He is the first openly gay candidate for president of the United States and he did extraordinarily well,” Mr. Sanders said. So gay comes first and then (if at all) competence?

“Mayor Pete” is wise beyond his years - he made the right decision, but hopefully this isn’t the last we’ve heard from him.

What happens to the delegates he won? Do his Iowa and New Hampshire delegates get redistributed to those still in the race based on the percentages they won?

OK Pete how about you go actually accomplish something now. Not something that looks good on a resume, something that actually makes a difference.

I wasn't going to vote for him, but he elevated the primary season with his intelligence, and he bowed out with dignity and class. Thanks, Mr. Buttigieg.

It is my hope Pete Buttigieg will endorse Joe Biden. A comment on an interview once viewed as a gaffe by then Vice-president Biden led to marriage equality. Mr. Biden was simply expressing how he felt. And how he felt was right then and it is right now.

The DNC is at fault here. Seems that they learned nothing from the last GOP nomination process in 2016. The existential situation in the country called for the Democrats to be united behind a team to knock off 45. I just read JFK's inauguration speech. The DNC should have paid more attention to that business about passing the torch to a new generation. Giving Pete a chance in 2020 could have saved the party. Three men and a woman all over 70 years of age inspires neither received wisdom nor visionary pragmatism the country needs to end the prevailing nightmare.

Mr. Buttigieg is a very smart and articulate person, and we will hear more from him in the future. Hopefully his dropping out now will give the moderates a forward impetus to create a winning team and win the white house in November.

I find this to be a depressing development, for two reasons. One, we lost an opportunity to nominate someone who is ferociously intelligent, charismatic, thoughtful, respectful and pragmatic. If I were to have written down an imaginary candidate to beat Trump after the lessons learned in 2016, I would probably have imagined a younger veteran with executive experience from the midwest and no Washington insider status. This was a rare opportunity and I am saddened we let it pass us by. Secondly, all I am reading from the pundits today is that this increases Biden's chances as the non-Bernie candidate. I'm struggling to imagine a better way to lose the general election in November, even given the DNC's breathtaking ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. If our nominee is a party-anointed, nearly 80 year old man who elicits absolutely zero enthusiasm from voters, looks like he is falling asleep at his own rallies, has more baggage than a freight train, and whose greatest political promise is a return to the status quo which fueled Trump's ascent in the first place, then we are sunk. It's a repeat of many of the worst aspects of Clinton's 2016 campaign, minus the history-making potential of it.  I will certainly "vote blue, no matter who" this fall. But my depression that Trump will be re-elected grows every day, as the Democratic Party continues to convince itself that doing the same thing one more time will magically produce different results.