Carpetbagger Pete Buttigieg already eyeing run for office in his new home state
He was a disaster as Transportation Secretary, bringing in the radical woke agenda and climate alarmist nonsense, so naturally he now wants to run for higher office.
The problem is, though, he’s not running in his home state of Indiana but is trying to carpetbag in Michigan where he’s been a resident for barely two years.
The question remains if a far-left radical like Buttigieg can win in a state that Trump has won twice.
Buttigieg rules out run for Michigan Governor, eyeing potential U.S. Senate bid
According to POLITICO, former Transportation Secretary and Mayor of South Bend, Indiana Pete Buttigieg has ruled out running for the Governor of Michigan in 2026 and instead is now considering a run for the U.S. Senate being vacated by retiring Democrat U.S. Senator Gary Peters.
This will be the first time since 1916 that Michigan will have open seat elections for both U.S. Senate and Governor, making it a pivotal election for the future of the state as well as the nation, with questions surrounding whether or not Michigan is still in play for Republicans after Trump picked it up again in 2024.
Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer is term-limited and has already indicated that she does intend to run for U.S. Senate.
Mayor of Detroit Mike Duggan, a former Democrat, has announced his run for Governor as an Independent.
The current Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is currently the only high-profile Democrat to be running for Governor after she accidentally and embarrassingly announced her bid on X, formerly known as Twitter, with a post that was quickly deleted.
Buttigieg’s decision to not run for Governor of Michigan seems to be a decision based on political calculations, as Michigan has more recently elected a Republican as Governor than it has a Republican as U.S. Senator.
The last Republican Governor of Michigan was businessman Rick Snyder, who last won reelection in 2014.
Michigan last elected a Republican U.S. Senator in 1994, Spencer Abraham, who would lose his reelection bid in 2000.
The Great Lakes State is coming off an election cycle that saw a resurgence of Republican support in the state with Trump winning the state for the second time after shocking the world by winning it back in 2016.
But Michigan Democrats spent six years building their power in the state and completely taking over state government for the first time in 40 years in 2022.
Michigan voters rejected far-left Democrats in 2024 when they tossed the Democrat majorities out of power in the Michigan House of Representatives.
In reality, Buttigieg really does not have a natural base in Michigan since he has only lived in the state for just barely over two years, so he is only really running on any remaining momentum he has from his time in the Biden Administration.
But as an open homosexual, he is likely to attract out-of-state money by the millions who want to see Michigan elect its first openly gay U.S. Senator, but it remains to be seen if that is enough.
The race for the Michigan U.S. Senate seat is likely to be crowded, as State Senators, the current Attorney General Dana Nessel, who is a radical far-leftist, and others are all mulling a potential bid, showing that Buttigieg doesn’t have a firm grasp on receiving the Democrat nomination, let alone the support to win the general election.
National and state Republicans have been longing to win back the Michigan U.S. Senate seat for years, having just come up short in 2024 after former Congressman Mike Rogers underperformed Trump.
