It is no coincidence that many in the US right now is to learn to pronounce the name Pete Buttigieg.

He may very well be the 2020 response to Barack Obama, not just by having an unusual name in american politics.

He also has a similar quiet and positive way to address the issues. Not least, he manages to get the audience to believe that it may not actually be fully running, there is hope for the future.

Pete Buttigieg – who, incidentally, is pronounced boot-a-judge – the last few weeks have susat forward as a democratic top candidate for the next presidential elections in the united states.

of course, It is a long way to go until then, and a lot can happen on the road.

But it is astonishing how he, a mere 37-year-old mayor from a very small town in Indiana, South Bend, has managed to make itself seen and heard. Suddenly he was mentioned in the same breath as the heavy politikernamn like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders since he went into nomineringsmatchen in January.

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Recently, he was on a visit in New York and allowed himself to be grilled by the most tough interviewer on the tv set flashed by in wonderment, and admiration. And it depended not only on his intellect, which is considerably, but that he combines that with a, today rare, peaceful style and image.

and polarized, debate is it such a rare and unusual characteristic that Pete Buttigieg and scored proffsilskna republicans on the conservative tv channel Fox News that tag down and, almost, losing his composure. Unlike many other democratic politicians visits, he likes the canal. He thinks that it is important to let the tv viewers themselves get to see and hear politicians who would otherwise only be demonized by the opposing side.

Pete Buttigieg at a political meeting. Photo: Keiko Hiromi/Polaris/TT

Even if he does not succeed in converting conservative people, so he has still got many to listen to his soft, but methodical, style.

For Pete Buttigieg takes no big words or gestures, or dressing up in a spectacular way. On the contrary, actually. He looks as if he would be with the church’s boys ‘ choir. The most eye-catching is that he refuses to wear a jacket in most official context, he is involved in, not least on tv.

to appear in the light shirt and tie, but with their shirt sleeves easily rolled up. ”I simply feel most comfortable with rolled-cufflinks”, he says.

that is also The way he poses on his autobiography with the title: ”the Shortest way home: One mayor’s challenge and a model for America’s future”.

A book in which he among other things talks about his thoughts on how cities in the united states can develop from that have been dependent on heavy industries to prosper in a post-industrial world. And it is something he has personal experience of. He has been mayor of South Bend since 2012 and under his leadership, the unemployment rate in the city halved.

He was stationed in Afghanistan in 2014. Would he become president he will become the first who is openly gay.

Despite their young age have Pete Buttigieg is not only a relatively long political experience. He also has an education that really kick ass. He has studied four years at Harvard, two years at Oxford as fellow and served in the u.s. army. He is a lieutenant in the us navy’s intelligence service, and was stationed in Afghanistan in 2014.

in the united states, and the question is often why the right wing considers himself to have prevail when it comes to christianity. It is inclusive, not exclusive. In 2018, he married with Chasten Glezman, who took his surname.

Would he become president he will become the first who is openly gay.

A detail that, so far, overshadowed by the fact that he not only can be described as believers, but also as a well-trained war veteran with political experience.

Although he had not yet reached the age of forty, he has, as he himself pointed out, more and longer practical experience of both politics and war than the current president has. And it is the experience in the united states will make a loud bang, regardless of party affiliation.

Chasten Glezman, the man on the far right, is married with Pete Buttigieg. Photo: Keiko Hiromi/Polaris/TT