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Can someone at @BuzzFeed please make a “Which First Dog of South Bend Are You?” quiz? pic.twitter.com/cb8nAwlBEd

— Chasten Buttigieg (@Chas10Buttigieg) April 3, 2019

Over 100,000 people have taken the @firstdogsSB @BuzzFeed quiz! Which pup are you? https://t.co/H88nCLTAgW

— Chasten Buttigieg (@Chas10Buttigieg) April 9, 2019

The couple married in 2018 at the Cathedral of Saint James Episcopal church in South Bend. Chasten recently spoke about his newfound notoriety at an event hosted by the Human Rights Campaign and the significance of his husband’s historic candidacy.

“I now live in a world where people take photos of me in the deodorant aisle at the grocery store,” he said, before adding, “It’s not lost on me that I was able to marry the man I love by the grace of one Supreme Court vote.”

“We need someone in the White House who will sign the Equality Act into law,” he told the crowd. “And luckily, I know a guy.”

Still, as he launches his candidacy, several residents in South Bend expressed concerns over Buttigieg's experience and if leading from city hall qualifies him to lead from the White House.

\"I'm happy to have that representation but I don't want that to be the focus...I know that's what the nation is focused on or the fact that he is a millennial,\" Rita Koehler, a long-time South Bend resident who is in a same-sex relationship told ABC News. \"That's that's not what presidential elections are about.\"

\"He's been a mayor for what, eight years now? Around that, I mean he's done a decent job,\" James Stremme, a life-long South Bend resident and supporter of President Donald Trump told ABC News, before adding of the presidency, \"That's a different level.\"

But one resident, Steve Snyder, who also voted for the president, said that he does not always agree with Trump and is open to voting for a Democrat in 2020, \"If the right one came along.\"

ABC News' Armando Garcia contributed to this report.

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