“I didn’t consider myself a politician – so I fell in love with this mayor who decided to run for president.
I did not know how or what to be in an election campaign. I was very nervous about presenting myself the wrong way. I realized you just need to take a deep breath and be yourself.
I started talking about my gay childhood in the Midwest, what it was like hanging out in a very conservative rural place, what it was like watching my mom fight cancer. She is still fighting cancer and our American health care system.
You know, and there was so much that I felt like you’re supposed to keep locked inside because those vulnerabilities might make you look weaker. But the more I talked about it, the more I felt like people connected with us, connected with running and our common American experience.
He later said: “I didn’t mean to cause such a mess when I kissed my husband at his [campaign] launch, but I heard about this kiss all over the country.
People would come and say what it meant to them to see a proud and proud couple on the national stage like this. – Chasten Buttigieg, husband of current Transportation Secretary and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg on MSNBC’s The Sunday Show over the weekend.
