If Elected, Democratic Candidate Pete Buttigieg Would Be The Youngest President Ever

Democrat Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) recently launched a presidential exploratory committee. The 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and Afghanistan war veteran, would be the youngest president in history if he is elected.

Despite his age, Buttigieg tells Here & Now’s Jeremy Hobson that his wealth of executive experience is one of the main reasons why he is running for president.

“Look, I get that being a mayor is not as conventional a background as having spent a long time in Washington in the U.S. Congress or in an environment like that,” he says. “But I actually think the more we can get Washington to start looking like our best-run cities and towns and not the other way around, the better.”

In addition to his age, Buttigieg would be the first openly-gay president if he were elected. When he was in the middle of his re-election campaign for mayor, Buttigieg says he realized he needed to come out, but he admits that the idea worried him.

“In the end, I got re-elected