Pete Buttigieg dropped out of the presidential race before Super Tuesday along with Amy Klobuchar and endorsed Joe Biden, paving the way for Biden to secure the moderate lane in the Democratic primary and defeat Bernie Sanders.
He’s benefiting now by being nominated for United States Secretary of Transportation, a position for which he seems underqualified (his record on transportation matters is quite thin).
But he already cashed in on his new name recognition in the months since he dropped out of the race in a few other ways, his recently-filed financial disclosure as an administration nominee shows.
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