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Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg is an American politician and Afghanistan War veteran. He served as the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, from 2012 to 2020 and was a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2020 United States presidential election. Buttigieg is a graduate of Harvard College and Oxford University, attending the latter on a Rhodes Scholarship. He was a consultant at the management consulting firm McKinsey from 2007 to 2010. From 2009 to 2017, he was an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant. He was mobilized and deployed to Afghanistan for seven months in 2014.
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Joseph Robinette Biden is an American politician who served as the 47th vice president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. He represented Delaware in the U.S. Senate from 1973 to 2009. A member of the Democratic Party, Biden is the presumptive Democratic nominee for the 2020 United States presidential election, running against incumbent Donald Trump. Biden unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination in 1988 and 2008.
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Matthew Shephard's Parents Made an Emotional Appearance at the DNC

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During the second night of the Democratic National Convention, all 57 U.S. states and territories participated in the roll call vote, where each region remotely cast their delegate votes for Joe Biden.

A reminder of how beautifully diverse our country can be, Pete Buttigieg, Craig Hickman, and many more provided some LGBTQ+ representation.

But many viewers were surprised by an appearance from the parents of the late Matthew Shepard, who was brutally tortured and murdered in 1998 in an antigay hate crime.

Judy and Dennis Shepard, who have vocally fought for LGBTQ+ rights since the death of their son, cast the delegate votes from their home state of Wyoming.  "Joe understands more than most of our grief over Matt’s death," Dennis Shepard

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