Pete Buttigieg to Endorse Former Vice President Joe Biden

(Bloomberg) -- Pete Buttigieg plans to endorse former rival Joe Biden for the Democratic presidential primary Monday, backing the candidate who is emerging as the centrist alternative to Bernie Sanders one day before Super Tuesday, according to people familiar with the plans.

Buttigieg, who spoke to Biden and former President Barack Obama just after leaving the race Saturday, was under intense pressure to back the former vice president in his bid to stop Sanders’s drive to the nomination.

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