Pete Buttigieg, the youngest candidate for the White House, has decided to end his campaign for the Democratic presidential candidacy after the collapse suffered in the South Carolina primary on Saturday. Buttigieg, 38, has left his mark on this race not only for being the first openly homosexual precandidate in history, but for having placed himself in the top positions of an overpopulated struggle - there have been more than 20 contestants - with little more experience than the mayor of South Bend, a city of 100,000 inhabitants in Indiana.
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After the other resignation of this weekend, that of businessman Tom Steyer, the primary Democrats are reduced to six names, with veterans Bernie Sanders, a 78-year-old social democrat, and Joe Biden, a moderate of 77, as prominent leaders. The former mayor of South Bend gave the bell to win in the first round of this long race, the Iowa caucuses, and achieved a second place in the second, the New Hampshire primary, both appointments of great symbolic importance but little electoral weight. In Nevada, his halo began to go out - he was third, with only 14% - and in South Carolina his null success with the African-American voter sentenced him (he was 8%).
This Sunday he canceled his planned campaign events in Dallas and Austin without detailing the reasons, although sources of his campaign reported the withdrawal to several US media. "We are going to travel to South Bend instead of Texas and we will make an announcement there about the future," he said. The pressure on the candidates without sufficient critical mass of votes increases as the campaign progresses and is crucial 48 hours after the so-called Super Tuesday, when up to 16 different states hold primaries at the same time, including the two most populous, California and New York