re: How did Pete Buttigieg go from being the mayor of a small city to running for president?

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The polls seem to favor him. Doesn't suck as much as the others.

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He backed into it..

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Kamala says wait a damn minute...

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Pete Buttigieg’s Work At McKinsey Is A Secret
Buttigieg’s campaign says it has reached out to the company about the possibility of being released from a confidentiality agreement, but the mayor has so far stayed quiet.

Picture of Henry J. Gomez Henry J. Gomez BuzzFeed News Reporter Posted on November 15, 2019, at 3:37 p.m. ET

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A major piece of Pete Buttigieg’s past remains a mystery to voters. For nearly three years, he worked at McKinsey & Company, an elite management consulting firm with offices around the world. It was work that took him, he has said, to Iraq and Afghanistan. And for years after that, in his early campaigns for public office, Buttigieg held up his stint at McKinsey as a selling point and proof that he was a business-friendly Democrat, while only vaguely describing what he did and never revealing his clients.

A deeper understanding of his time there a decade ago would be relevant to evaluating the 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, who’s now trying to prove he has the experience to be president. But Buttigieg continues to keep most details a secret, citing a confidentiality agreement. He also now describes the job — which informed his views on business issues — as “not something that I think is essential in my story.” Asked by BuzzFeed News this week if Buttigieg would be willing to provide more information about his role at the firm, spokesperson Chris Meagher confirmed that the campaign on at least two occasions has asked McKinsey about ways around the nondisclosure pact. Buttigieg’s work “is largely covered by a non-disclosure agreement,” Meagher said Friday. “Previously, the campaign had reached out to McKinsey to inquire about what the NDA encompasses, and this week again reached out to McKinsey about the possibility of being released from the NDA.”

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