‘I’ve got to get out and tell people’: Pete Buttigieg on his road ahead

Can the US revitalise its infrastructure? Is the US ready for a gay president? And does Buttigieg still plan to run one day?

From Pete Buttigieg's old office in South Bend, Indiana, you could see the hospital where he was born, churches built for Irish and Polish immigrants and a factory that made cabinets for Singer sewing machines. This was the Silicon Valley of its day," the then mayor told the Guardian in February 2019.

Nearly four years later, Buttigieg is occupying a loftier perch. As America's transportation secretary, his framed photograph sits alongside those of Joe Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris in the lobby of the Department of Transportation.