Buttigieg ‘more inclined than not’ to run for president in 2028

Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said he is leaning toward running for president again in 2028.

“I think I’m more inclined than not, but there’s so much we don’t know,” Buttigieg told Steven Bartlett on an episode of “The Diary of a CEO” published Monday.

“There’s so much I don’t even know about what’s going to happen this year, let alone … what we need to know later,” he noted. 

Buttigieg referenced the personal considerations that go into deciding whether to run for office — he and his husband, Chasten Buttigieg, adopted twins in 2021. The former mayor of South Bend, Ind., told Bartlett he did not “fully understand” the “weight” of such a decision until he was a father.

“That’s changed all of my equations. It’s just something that you really sit with and take seriously, which you should,” Buttigieg added.

Six years after Buttigieg finished fifth in the 2020 Democratic........

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