Buttigieg awarded the "Most Likely to Become President" in the High School Yearbook

APete Buttigieg's old superlative yearbook of 2000, hope at the Democratic White House, resurfaced this week. The verdict? "Most likely to become president."

Katie Kowals, a nurse at Memorial Hospital in South Bend, Buttigieg County, Indiana, said her brother-in-law knew "Mayor Pete" of his time together at St. Joseph's High School. Recounting some of these high school memories with Buttigieg, she says that her classmates voted overwhelmingly for him most likely to lead the nation, adding that he had always behaved with the lure of the leadership and importance.

"Mayor Pete was also elected most likely to become president in our directory," Kowals told ABC. Kowals says Buttigieg "was exactly how it is now".

In the directory, Kowals' brother-in-law is photographed with Buttigieg and other friends with the superlative written at the bottom of the photo.

Buttigieg, 37, attended Harvard University after graduating from St. Joseph's High School. He was also Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. Prior to becoming mayor of his hometown, South Bend, Buttigieg was a US Navy intelligence officer and was deployed to Afghanistan in 2014. The first openly gay man to run for the Democratic nomination, Buttigieg married her husband, Chasten. year.

The mayor's election campaign raised more than $ 7 million in the first quarter of the year, according to the Federal Election Commission. The Buttigieg campaign has qualified for the first presidential debate to be held in Miami, Florida, in June.