Pete Buttigieg Compares JD Vance With Mike Pence: At Least 'Pence Was Polite'
HuffPost
“JD Vance is one of those guys who thinks if you don’t live the life that he has in mind for you, then you don’t count,” the transportation secretary said.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg compared Donald Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance, with Trump’s former vice president, Mike Pence, during his speech Wednesday night at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
After criticizing Trump, Buttigieg pivoted his attention to the former president’s running mate.
“And don’t even get me started on [Trump’s] new running mate. At least Mike Pence was polite. JD Vance is one of those guys who thinks if you don’t live the life that he has in mind for you, then you don’t count,” Buttigieg, a Democratic presidential candidate in 2020, said as he made comparisons between the two. “Someone who said that if you don’t have kids, you have ’no physical commitment to the future of this country.”
Buttigieg’s remarks referred to a 2021 interview that resurfaced last month in which Vance mocked Vice President Kamala Harris for being among the Democratic Party’s “childless cat ladies” who are “miserable” with their lives. The interview prompted massive backlash from celebrities and elected officials, but Vance chose to back his remarks.
In response to the criticism, the Ohio senator insisted that he was being sarcastic and has “nothing against cats,” but he then urged people to “pray for those people” who did not birth children. The vice presidential nominee has made other offensive comments about childless people, such as saying that not having children “makes people more sociopathic.”
The shooting at Brown on Saturday killed two students and wounded nine others. The attacker got away.
Sean Duffy's daughter Evita Duffy-Alfonso called the TSA "unconstitutional" while reminding people the agency operates under Kristi Noem, not her dad.
The right-wing personality said he got a tip, which he then spread on a podcast, generating conspiracy theories.
The president “knows deep down” one damning thing, said the late night host.
The "Last Word" host debunked numerous claims Trump made during his speech to the nation Wednesday before inviting Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) to react.
Cedric Lodge stole parts from cadavers including heads, faces, brains, skin and hands after they had been used for research and teaching purposes, prosecutors said.
"No one should be happy to see the president like this," the CNN medical analyst remarked.
The congresswoman reacted to a new poll with a blunt prediction about a hypothetical race against the vice president.
The top Republican's hot take went very awry.
Rep. Jim McGovern stressed that Americans are "sick and tired" of the GOP's "empty rhetoric" on the issue.
Several insults aimed at Trump's Democratic predecessors are now featured in his "Presidential Walk of Fame."
Trump's end-of-year address to the nation meandered across a few of his favorite topics, but viewers were left searching for any real point to the whole thing.
If passed, the bill would punish doctors and parents who provide or consent to a minor receiving gender-affirming care.