Amid the swirling speculation that President Joe Biden won’t run again
in 2024, Democrats have been atwitter for weeks about whether Biden’s
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg might mount a campaign. The man,
after all, has been front and center in selling the Biden agenda across
the nation, and — some suspect — is laying the groundwork for another
try for the White House.

Just in time, our Alex Thompson hit the road with the former mayor of
South Bend, and found “a man who seems to be in a perpetual hurry.”

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