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He has just turned 38 and although there are still many months ahead, today he leads the way among aspiring Democrats seeking to snatch the president of the United States, Donald Trump, a second term. His name is Pete Buttigieg, he is openly homosexual and has just come as a surprise when leading the vote count in the Iowa caucuses.

It is still a great unknown to many voters , and is still the target of jokes for a surname that very few know how to pronounce correctly. But despite his youth, he presents himself with eight years of political experience as mayor of South Bend, a small town in the state of Indiana that began to govern when he was 29 years old.

He took office on January 1, 2012, becoming the youngest mayor of an American city of at least 100,000 inhabitants, and it was at the end of that first term when he decided to leave the closet . His enemies predicted that it would be the end of his political career but he won the municipal elections again with 80% of votes.

That same year he met Chasten Glezman through the Hinge dating application and in 2018 they got married. They have openly talked about their desire to be parents and expand family, a love story that reached the cover of 'Time' magazine in May 2019, just a month after announcing their presidential aspirations.

He is, since then, the first homosexual Democratic candidate who wants to reach the White House , a man of religious convictions that is part of the Episcopal Church that seeks to captivate the vote of those who do not support the candidates of the party's establishment, with Joe Biden as the main figure, nor to those of the most progressive wing, like Bernie Sanders.

His main campaign motto is "freedom, security and democracy", he has not hesitated to openly criticize the proposal of a public insurance for all that Senator Sanders proclaims and has a lot of hook among the younger voters, whom he seduces with his messages on the importance of fighting climate change.

Member of the Navy Naval Reserve since 2009, he is also a war veteran who was assigned seven months in Afghanistan in 2014, when he was still mayor and requested a leave to work at the Bagram air base, where he was assigned to a unit that dismantled financial networks used by terrorists.

For those who dismiss him for being too young, his answer is almost always the same. "I have more years of government experience than the president or vice president and more military experience than anyone else who has tried (to reach the White House) from George Bush (father)," he once said in a debate organized by the CNN

Several points have just been scored when leading the Iowa caucuses, the starting gun of the long primary campaign , but from now on billionaire Mike Bloomberg enters the race and it remains to be seen if Buttigieg will be able to maintain the momentum with the who longs to become the first gay president of the United States.

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