Pete Buttigieg to be Featured Speaker at Democratic National Convention
Openly gay former mayor of South Bend, Indiana - and former contender for the 2020 Democratic nomination - Pete Buttigieg is slated to headline as a speaker at the Democratic National Convention later this month, local newspaper the South Bend Tribune reports.
Though Buttigieg will be a featured speaker, he will not - as then-newcomer to the national political stage Barack Obama did in 2004 - deliver the keynote address. Buttigieg will speak on the final night of the convention, Aug. 20. His participation, like that of other convention speakers, will be online, since the convention will be virtual due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The theme that night that speakers will address is "America's Promise."
The South Bend Tribune noted that Buttigieg withdrew from the race on March 1 and has, like other hopefuls who also stepped aside, thrown his full support behind presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden.
The South Bend Tribune reported that "Other speakers that night will include New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin, and Sen. Kamala Harris, whom Biden announced Tuesday as his running mate."