Former South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg, who had considerable success as openly gay presidential candidate, is set to drop his campaign for the White House, according to multiple media reports.
On Sunday, the Buttigieg campaign issued a notice the candidate deliver remarks that evening in his hometown of South Bend tonight at 8:30 (5:30p Pactific) The decision by Buttigieg comes the heels of the primary in South Carolina, where he performed poorly behind former vice president Joseph Biden and Sen.
Bernie Sanders. Buttigieg won 8 percent of the vote, compared to 49 percent for Biden and 20 percent for Sanders. Buttigieg enjoyed considerable success in the early voting state of Iowa and New Hampshire.
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