Pete Buttigieg had a remarkable journey in 2020 from a rising Democratic star as a mayor of an Indiana town to a U.S. Presidential candidate to now as the Secretary of Transportation under President Joe Biden’s administration. Director Jesse Moss was with Buttigieg for every step from his meteoric rise and decline of his Presidential campaign as he documented in Mayor Pete as an Amazon Original.

Here is the synopsis of the documentary:

Mayor Pete brings viewers inside Pete’s campaign to be the youngest U.S. President, providing an unprecedented intimacy with the candidate, his husband Chasten, and their ambitious team. From the earliest days of the campaign to his unlikely, triumphant victory in Iowa and beyond. This film reveals what really goes on inside a campaign for the highest office in the land – and the myriad ways it changes the lives of those at its center. Recently appointed to U.S. Secretary of Transportation, Buttigieg serves as the first openly LGBTQ Cabinet member in U.S. history.

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LRM Online’s Gig Patta spoke with director Jesse Moss on following Pete Buttigieg on the campaign trail. We discussed Buttigieg’s personality and the lure of this charismatic politician.

Jesse Moss is a documentarian with several notable real-life films under his belt. Some of his noted films included Netflix’s Dirty Money on the exposition of greed, The Overnighters about desperate men in the North Dakota oil fields, and The Bandit about the crew’s shared experiences of the late director Hal Needham.

Mayor Pete premieres today on Amazon Prime Video.

Watch the exclusive interview with Jesse Moss below. Let us know what you think of the interview.

Source: LRM Online Exclusive, Amazon Studios