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South Bend Mayor and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg appeared Monday in "The Rachel Maddow Show" and explained that it was a "leap of faith" for him to come out of the closet before his reelection in 2014.
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, who told Buttigieg that she was a lesbian at the university, said it "would have killed her" to wait until age 33 like him and asked if to wait so long was difficult.
"It was difficult, it was really difficult," Buttigieg said.
"Going out was difficult, but being in the closet is harder," said Maddow.
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The 37-year-old presidential candidate explained that he had needed "a lot of time to go out alone".
Buttigieg said he thought he was serving in the military and that "being an elected Indiana" was "totally inconsistent" with his sexuality. It was only during his deployment in Afghanistan in 2014 that he realized he had to "do something".
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The former naval intelligence officer told Maddow that "most people" were supportive and enthusiastic, or had let him know that they were not kidding, that he called "historical". was a wider margin of victory than his first election before his release.
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