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Now on stage at #SXSW: South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg.
At #SXSW, @anamariecox asks Pete Buttigieg where he gets the "nerve" to run for President- Buttigieg admits "When you think about the presidency and the demands of the presidency and the intensity of it, there’s something obscene about anyone thinking they belong in that office."
At #SXSW Mayor Pete Buttigieg says he "changed his mind on Mike Pence," after the passage of an Indiana religious freedom law that allowed businesses to refuse to serve the LGBT, which made Buttigieg realize Pence "was now in a place where somebody like me could never reach him." 
South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg hits Mike Pence for claiming an adherence to religion but then teaming up with "the least Christian figure imaginable to be running for president."
Asked at #SXSW about "becoming aware of your own privilege," Pete Buttigieg recounts a story when, in college, a police officer caught him throwing out a joint. “If I were not white, the odds of that having been something that would have derailed my life are exponentially higher”
