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When diversity came to America’s political leadership Philip Bump © Kevin Lamarque/Reuters Former mayor of South Bend, Ind., Pete Buttigieg, listens as President-elect Joe Biden announces his nomination as secretary of transportation Wednesday as Vice President-elect Kamala D. Harris looks on via video link during a news conference at Biden s transition headquarters in Wilmington, Del. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) President-elect Joe Biden on Wednesday nominated former South Bend, Ind., mayor Pete Buttigieg to serve as the head of the Transportation Department in his administration. Normally, such an announcement would be at best rote or, more likely, boring: Oh, a former mayor from Indiana is going to run Transportation? Wake me up when we get to attorney general. But Buttigieg is not just a former mayor. He is also an openly gay former mayor putting him on the brink of being the first openly gay person confirmed to hold a position in a presidential Cab

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