Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg spoke to CNN about his response to JD Vance’s comments that ‘childless Democrats should not serve in the Government.’
“And how does it make any sense that we’ve turned our country over to people who don’t really have a direct stake in it?” Vance said in the clip.
Vance pointed to prominent figures in the Democratic Party — including Buttigieg, Vice President Harris, and Rep.AOC — saying that “the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children.”
Besides the fact that Buttigieg now has twins and VP Harris has two stepchildren, does Vance apply this standard to Republicans?
“And it’s not about his kids, or my kids, or the vice president’s family,” Buttigieg said Tuesday. “It’s about your family, people’s families whose well-being will depend on whether we go into a future led by somebody like Kamala Harris who is focused on expanding the prosperity, the freedom, the well-being of our families.”
He added, “Or, do you want your children to grow up in a country defined by a return to the chaos and recrimination and cruelty that was the hallmark of the Trump era?”