10 things you need to know today: March 2, 2020

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Pete Buttigieg in Louisiana
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1. Buttigieg ends his presidential campaign

Former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg ended his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination on Sunday. He was the second candidate to drop out following the dominant victory of former Vice President Joe Biden, a fellow moderate, in South Carolina's Saturday primary; billionaire Tom Steyer suspended his campaign late Saturday. Buttigieg was the first openly gay man to win delegates in a presidential nominating contest, taking one more delegate than progressive frontrunner Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in the Iowa caucuses. The night of the caucuses, Buttigieg said his campaign's strong showing taught him to "believe in American belonging" after "remembering how it felt to be an Indiana teenager, wondering if he would ever belong in this world."

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Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.