Financial support from the LGBT community has helped Pete Buttigieg's 2020 presidential campaign defy expectations.
Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, South Bend, Ind. mayor, address the National Action Network convention, Thursday April 4, 2019, in New York. Jonah Burrell first contributed to Pete Buttigieg's campaign after watching the first prominent openly gay presidential candidate on television. When Burrell later saw him in person in a cramped upstate South Carolina auditorium, he knew he had to do it again.
The Buttigieg appeal was on display again this weekend when the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and his husband separately headlined galas for two of the country's largest LGBT organizations. Of the candidates who've released their first-quarter fundraising totals, Buttigieg outraised New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker and Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who each brought in over $5 million, and entrepreneur Andrew Yang. Other candidates exceeded his total, including California Sen. Kamala Harris and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders . But they are better-known, with well-established donor networks that in some cases date back many years.
"It certainly helps to have people who are excited about the historic quality of a possible candidacy, but we really have a broad range," he said. "They're still crunching the numbers to understand some of the dimensions of all our support because it came, it seems, from every corner of the country and very different types of donors."
"He's not a gay candidate for president," she added. "He is a candidate for president and part of his life experience that he brings is being an openly gay man. And you know, an openly gay first man."
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