During an appearance on MSNBC on Sunday, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, acting as a private citizen, joined the pile-on afflicting Sen. J. D. Vance ) that has been unrelenting since the Ohio Republican was selected by Donald Trump chose him to be his 2024 presidential running mate.
Speaking with host Jen Psaki, the former Democratic mayor of South Bend, Indiana subtly leaned into the narrative that Americans find Vance "weird" based on a history of comments over the years that have the Trump campaign reeling.
As the man known as "Mayor Pete" explained to the host, "Where do you start? You know, they selected somebody who really reminded many Americans of why they are put off by the turn that the Republican party has taken in the last two years."
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"It's not just that he said a lot of things that are weird, or insulting, like the characterization of the Democratic party as 'childless cat ladies.' It's also that he seems to view everything in terms of the negative. And what I mean by that is, for example, this thing about having children. I think a lot of us with kids would certainly say that that experience opens you to a new way of thinking about the world."
"But he doesn't talk about it in those terms," he elaborated. "He talks about how anybody who doesn't have kids is less than, that their perspectives have less value, which is just a really strange take. It is not just a weird style that he brings, it is that this leads to weird policies, like his proposal that the number of votes you get in an election would be different depending on how many kids you have."
"I mean, I would think one person, one vote was a pretty basic, universally accepted principle in this country. There are so many strange policy commitments that he has," he concluded.
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