🔥🔥 BREAKING: Pete Buttigieg is IN -- he'll be running for president in 2028!

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🔥🔥 BREAKING: Pete Buttigieg is IN — he’ll be running for president in 2028!

Raise your hand if that makes you happy! ✋

— Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) 2026-04-10T17:30:58.160Z

Haven't seen anyone post this yet.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

1. my brain read that as "Pete Hegseth"

[Brother Buzz]

2. Pete Buttigieg is now on my short list

[QueerDuck]

20. Same!

[Deuxcents]

3. 👋

[msongs]

4. or he could be playing along with the reverands joke nt

[valleyrogue]

5. Forget it. He can run for governor or senator instead. N/T

[Mister Ed]

6. I'd sure be happy to see that.

I'm not sure whether what he said qualifies as an announcement.

[Kid Berwyn]

7. He'd make a great President!

If Pete’s our nominee, he’s got my wholehearted support.

[AZJonnie]

8. I am also in!

This isn't quite a formal declaration, but sounds promising!

[LuvLoogie]

9. Super

[bucolic_frolic]

10. We need his good and clear mind in the race

I don't know how he'll do, or if he could win, but he explains politics better than just about anyone.

[radical noodle]

11. I really like him

He's so smart, and knows how to talk to real people.

[wiggs]

12. He is formidable, intelligent, articulate, wise. So were Hillary and Kamala. The misogynist voters won't have

someone to vote against, at least.

[Orrex]

21. I'm sure that the media machine will find something to attack about him

But he's 100% got my vote.

[TomSlick]

24. The misogynist are also homophobic.

[Haggard Celine]

34. That's right. People are homophobic because they're misogynistic.

The reason so many straight men don't like gay men is because so many gay men have feminine traits, and that, to them, is a type of perversion. After all, why would a man want to be a lowly woman?

[SWBTATTReg]

13. After tRUMP and his destructive ways we'll need someone like Pete to come in afterwards, and restore our faith in

government and institutions, and restore them back to what they should be, instead of serving at the behalf of billionaires ...

[SpankMe]

14. He can't win for president. But he'd win in a landslide for US Senator almost anywhere

I'd rather have Pete as a shoe-in US senator or rep rather than waste time and money on a longshot presidential run.

Mind you, I'd send money and vote for him for POTUS. I just think the time isn't right for him now, not the least because of what the right would do and the fact that his children will see.

[DavidDvorkin]

15. I wish he wouldn't

I wish he would focus on a run for senator or governor instead.

He would be a truly great president, but there's no chance he'd win that election or even the nomination. I hate the fact that it's so, but it is so.

[flamingdem]

16. Thank you for being honest

Sadly the country is not ready.

[Smilo]

35. Sadly I feel the same

Pete is a great person, obviously loves America, but America is not that open-minded to elect a gay man.

[everyonematters]

17. I think that he is a great guy, but I am leery of anyone from the Biden administration running for

president. There will be questions concerning Biden's mental acuity and whether he was involved in covering it up. I don't think he did anything wrong, but that doesn't change public opinion. That isn't the reason I would want to lose in 28,

[DownriverDem]

18. Pete is great

but I fear that our country is not ready for a married gay man with kids. They wouldn't vote for a white woman (Hillary) or a black woman (Kamla) which saddens me more than you know. We have to out number the homophobes.

[MackinacBridge]

19. Can we just clone him?

Ooooh, I'm torn.
The greedy part of me would love to see him as our governor. Big Gretch and her AG and SoS have been so competent and I just don't want to return to anything less than what we've had going on. I would be so relieved with Pete as governor.

But Pete can absolutely restore our standing with allies if he were president, he would excel at all things foreign policy, and holy Pete(!) we could start to get back to normal.

The man is just a good human and brings me hope in the way Obama and Kamala did, and he has my vote whatever he decides. Happy to put his sign in my yard for sure.

[MIButterfly]

31. I absolutely agree with you 100%!

I wish he was running for governor or senator here in the great state of Michigan. We'd be so lucky to have him.

[democratsruletheday]

22. We all KNOW he's brilliant....

but the homophobes and turds in this country will never elect a gay person as POTUS which melts my MIND to contemplate. It's sad, it sucks, it's obviously unfair and maddening really. Just too much Uber religious, bigoted, homophobes in this nation. Period...full stop. He'd be best utilized in a high level cabinet position in Kelly's administration. Similar to Harris.

[pinkstarburst]

23. YAY YAY YAY

Pete has my vote x 1000

He has the courage and the vision and the smarts to be an amazing president! Let's do this!!

[fujiyamasan]

25. Mayor of a small town

And former secretary of transportation?

We’re not talking defense, state or attorney general…

I like Pete, but that’s a thin resume. Sorry.

[Random Boomer]

33. Much as I like Pete, I agree

I'd like to see him spend at least another 4-8 years as a senator before I would consider him seasoned enough to be a presidential nominee.

[fujiyamasan]

46. Yep, was hoping he would have run for senator or at least a House seat once he moved to Michigan

I understand statewide ambitions were limited, if non existent in Indiana, but Michigan is definitely more blue at the state level. For example, the state attorney general Dana Nessel is a married woman.

[a kennedy]

26. It's true, this fawking country is NOT ready for a GAY as POTUS.

Damn them all. All though I would vote for him FOR EVERYTHING HE’D RUN FOR. HE’ll NEVER be elected POTUS. Now wait a minute……did I EVER THINK A BLACK MAN COULD BECOME POTUS TWICE???? Yeeeehaaaaa, you betcha baby.

[Cha]

27. Mahalo to you and Pete

Buttigieg ☮️💟🌈🌊🇺🇸

[Lifeafter70]

28. Im in

[walkingman]

29. I like him!

[JoseBalow]

30. I would be happy with a Prez Pete!

[multigraincracker]

32. I can think of 3 that would be great by me.

I would really like to see him debate the Publican that runs against him.
I’m supporting whoever we pick.

[Ziggysmom]

36. If the MAGA homophobes would only realize how he would work to make their

lives so much better. But they can’t see past their hate, so they will continue to vote against their own best interests.

[Renew Deal]

38. He will be compelling candidate

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He is a good communicator, good debater, and has a following. He won Iowa in 2020, which is notable, but he finished with 2.5% of the national vote.

He will be tough and would be one of the best debaters to put up against Vance.

[Boo1]

41. 2.5%

and I don't see what he will have done in that 8 years to make himself a better candidate this time around.

Mayor is still his highest elected office and he hasn't won an election in a decade. I just don't see Transportation Sec as being something that's going to take him very far.

He needs a bigger role to raise his national profile. Senator, Governor, Secretary of State....something more to be taken seriously. This is a Democratic Primary, and so far Democrats have still demanded exerience in their candidates.

[Renew Deal]

42. He is much better known now

And the cabinet position is significant. His experience isn’t typical of a primary winner but I have no problem with him trying.

[Boo1]

44. He can certainly try

but I just don't see him winning the nomination.

[Renew Deal]

45. It depends on who is running

And what is happening in the Republican ticket. I also wonder how electable voters will consider him. If they don’t consider him electable in the GE, it will be even tougher. I don’t think there is a clear front runner from the big name candidates.

[fujiyamasan]

47. He's welcome to try but transportation isn't really considered prestigious like Secretary of State, defense, or AG

I’m not getting into homophobia nationally. It’s harder to predict in terms of swing states. It also appears that being a lesbian is less problematic electorally than being a gay married man. I can think of several lesbians elected statewide in elected offices in swing states; not men.

[DonCoquixote]

39. he better be able to explain

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/how-buttigiegs-decision-on-police-chief-shadows-his-presidential-run

the fact he fired a black chief of police because he caught cops saying that n word,

from the article:
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How Buttigieg's decision on police chief shadows his presidential run
Politics Jan 16, 2020 12:20 PM EDT
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Karen DePaepe had been waiting all day for a call back from Pete Buttigieg.

It was March 2012, and the 30-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, had just decided to replace the city's first African American police chief over complaints that he illegally wiretapped police officers' phone calls.

DePaepe, who oversaw the department's phone system, had called the mayor to try to talk him out of removing the popular chief. She wanted to tell him the situation was not that simple. It was DePaepe who discovered a mistakenly recorded phone line, and, she says, heard white police officers making racist comments. She said in an interview with The Associated Press that she reported what she heard to the chief, and the recording continued.

[Duncan Grant]

40. He'll force the field to elevate the discourse.

His candidacy is a good thing. From all outward appearances, Pete looks like a very principled man with unimpeachable integrity. I’ll be disappointed to learn otherwise.

[CTyankee]

43. Consider my hand raised! I am proud to be among his devoted followers!

And it is a pleasure, indeed!