Mayor Buttigieg Is Eyeing a New Title: 'Ambassador Pete'
He was an early endorser, a capable debate prep partner, and an enthusiastic hype-man for President-elect Joe Biden both on television and on the campaign trail. Now, those close to Pete Buttigieg are hoping that he has proved that he’s earned a high-profile spot in Biden’s administration—one that would have once seemed an unthinkable next step for the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana: ambassador to the United Nations.
“He wants to build out his foreign policy credentials and land a spot that keeps him in the news but out of domestic political fights,” said one person familiar with Buttigieg’s thinking. “The UN does that, and gives him the option to build out his political possibilities.”
When it comes to entertaining Cabinet positions in a potential administration, Biden is famously superstitious about not putting the cart before the horse (two failed presidential campaigns will teach you that lesson in hubris), and those close to the transition told The Daily Beast the president-elect is weeks away from making any kind of final selections for Cabinet-level appointments. More importantly, the team of longtime allies and supporters that has surrounded Biden for decades generally takes a skeptical view of those whom they view to be jockeying for positions too prematurely—or too publicly.
Almost immediately after the election was finally called in Biden’s favor on Saturday afternoon, the steady trickle of would-be appointees reaching out to influential figures in the president-elect’s orbit became a deluge.
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