{"id":35043,"date":"2025-03-05T02:09:54","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T02:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/05\/pete-buttigieg-meets-with-chuck-schumer-as-he-considers-michigan-senate-bid\/"},"modified":"2025-03-05T02:09:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T02:09:54","slug":"pete-buttigieg-meets-with-chuck-schumer-as-he-considers-michigan-senate-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/05\/pete-buttigieg-meets-with-chuck-schumer-as-he-considers-michigan-senate-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Buttigieg meets with Chuck Schumer as he considers Michigan Senate bid"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg<\/a> met with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., as he contemplates wading into the 2026 Michigan Senate race.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The two met last week to discuss Buttigieg potentially running for outgoing Democratic Sen. Gary Peters’<\/a> seat in the Trump-won swing state, a source familiar confirmed to Fox News Digital.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Schumer’s office and a representative for Buttigieg did not immediately provide comment to Fox News Digital.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The meeting was first reported by Politico.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Buttigieg, 43, previously served as mayor of South Bend, Indiana<\/a>, before launching a presidential bid in 2020. Fans affectionately referred to him as “Mayor Pete,” and he has maintained popularity within the Democratic Party as one of its younger stars.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The millennial Democrat was later chosen to serve as President Biden’s transportation secretary.<\/p>\n

Soon after Peters revealed in January he wouldn’t seek re-election in the pivotal battleground state of Michigan, a source familiar with Buttigieg’s thinking told Fox News Digital, “Pete is exploring all of his options on how he can be helpful and continue to serve.”<\/p>\n

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“He’s honored to be mentioned for this, and he’s taking a serious look.”<\/p>\n

Peters announced his retirement to the Detroit News, telling the outlet, “I always thought there would be a time that I would step aside and pass the reins for the next generation. I also never saw service in Congress as something you do your whole life.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“And that goes back to 2008 when I first won that House seat. I thought it would be for a matter of a few terms that I would serve, and then I would go back to private life,” he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Michigan Senate race is considered a “Toss Up” by top nonpartisan political handicapper the Cook Political Report<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg met with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., as he contemplates wading into the 2026 Michigan Senate race.\u00a0 The two met last week to discuss Buttigieg potentially running for outgoing Democratic Sen. Gary Peters’ seat in the Trump-won swing state, a source familiar confirmed to Fox News Digital.\u00a0 HOUSE … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}