Buttigieg’s Fresno town hall is sold out. But here’s how to see the presidential candidate

Editor’s note: A previous version of this story reported Pete Buttigieg is the first openly gay major party candidate to run for president. Republican Fred Karger ran for president in 2012.

Presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg’s televised town hall next week at Fresno State is sold out, but there’s still a way people can meet him.

A meet and greet with Buttigieg will be held June 3 in downtown Fresno at the Tuolumne Hall just prior to the town hall.

Doors for the event will open at 10:30 a.m., and is schedule to start at 11 a.m. and end at 12:30 p.m.

Buttigieg then will hold the town hall at 4 p.m. at Fresno State. The meeting will be aired on MSNBC during the hour-long talk show “Hardball”, which is hosted by Chris Matthews.

Tickets for the event were free and were gone within an hour of being announced.

Buttigieg is the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and is noted for being one of the first openly gay major party candidates to run for the presidency.

He is one of 24 Democrats running in 2020 and the second candidate to stop through Fresno.

This story was originally published May 29, 2019 at 9:34 PM.