Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is expected to announce Thursday that he will not run for Michigan’s open U.S. Senate seat, it was reported.

Instead, the 43-year-old former South Bend, Indiana, mayor has an eye on running for president, Politico reported.

Prominent allies said Buttigieg could not feasibly do both, even as some raised the comparison to Barack Obama, who was elected president just four years after becoming a U.S. senator.

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