Pete will give an official endorsement for Biden.
Pete Buttigieg Will Endorse Joe Biden for Democratic Nomination
The news comes one day after Mr. Buttigieg dropped out of the race, and as Senator Amy Klobuchar planned to leave the race and endorse Mr. Biden.
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Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Ind., ended his presidential campaign Sunday night.Credit...Erin Schaff/The New York Times
By Reid J. Epstein and Trip Gabriel
- March 2, 2020, 3:22 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON — Former Mayor Pete Buttigieg plans to endorse former Vice President
Joseph R. Biden Jr. in the Democratic presidential race, according to a person informed of the decision, as the Democratic Party’s moderate wing quickly began coalescing around Mr. Biden in an effort to stop Senator Bernie Sanders from winning the Democratic nomination.
Mr. Buttigieg’s endorsement, which the person informed of the decision said is to come at a Biden campaign event Monday night in Dallas, follows the news that another moderate candidate,
Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, was quitting the race and throwing her support to Mr. Biden. She also plans to back Mr. Biden at the Dallas event. Harry Reid, the former Senate majority leader, was also among those who endorsed Mr. Biden on Monday.
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Mr. Buttigieg, the 38-year-old former mayor of South Bend, Ind., sought to portray himself as an agent of generational change, his presence in the race an implicit argument against Mr. Biden and Mr. Sanders. But he rarely had a cross word to say about the former vice president, and in September pivoted his campaign to the center, making ever more forceful arguments against the progressive candidacies of Mr. Sanders and Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts.