Pete Buttigieg eliminated J.D. Vance, the Republican vice presidential candidate, after giving him a pre-taped interview on CNN.
Buttigieg full interview video:
Here’s Pete Buttigieg’s full breakdown of JD Vance on CNN’s State of the Union. pic.twitter.com/w63l3cE6xe
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Buttigieg said of Vance’s attack on Tim Walz’s military service:
The fact that a veteran wants to go out and disparage another veteran certainly goes against everything I learned while serving. Look, I think in a lot of ways, this is the exception that proves the rule, if they can find the only information about Tim Walz To complain is to belittle his military record. This is obviously glorious. Remember, you can retire at age 20. Tim Walz played in 24 games.
In fact, they had to go back and find a clip from 2018 to find where he made the mistake of talking about the weapons of war he carried and said something about carrying weapons in war. This is an exception that proves the rule: how hard you have to look for anything Tim Waltz says to be imprecise and accurate.
But I think there’s a more important factor here, which is, I watched that interview and saw that J.D. Vance suddenly appeared to be very focused on the accuracy of his speech and very concerned about honesty. he ran with donald trumpa man with a record of lying in public life.
He just held a press conference where fact-checkers estimated he told 162 distortions or lies, which, frankly, is pretty impressive in terms of being able to actually do that. It’s like the Olympics of lying. So maybe just because it’s Sunday morning, I can’t stop thinking about the scripture that says, how can you look at your brother and say, let me take the speck out of your own eye, when there’s a log in your own eye.
Buttigieg said people are tired of the political style of Trump and Vance. “This is the politics that people are tired of. I think that’s why people are tired when they look back at the Trump era and are anxious about returning to that era.” There’s no interest or interest in a politics that demeans, undermines, and insults, and now you have such incredible joy and lift up the battle around Harris’ walls. That’s part of the reason for the extraordinary momentum we’re seeing as they tour across the country.
Pete Buttigieg is right about everything. People are tired of the MAGA politics promoted by Trump and Vance. Trump’s politics are dark and all about dividing and hurting people.
Vance was a failed vice presidential candidate. J.D. Vance’s performance was so bad it even affected ticket sales in his home state of Ohio.
Buttigieg ousted Vance because the Ohio senator was merely his running mate, embodying the kind of ugly politics that America seems increasingly willing to reject.