Pete Buttigieg adopted a pre-taped interview with JD Vance on CNN and worn out the GOP vice presidential candidate.
Video of the complete Buttigieg interview:
Right here is Pete Buttigieg’s full dismantling of JD Vance on CNN’s State Of The Union. pic.twitter.com/w63l3cE6xe
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) August 11, 2024
Buttigieg stated about Vance attacking Tim Walz’s army service:
The truth that a veteran needs to exit and disparage one other veteran simply goes in opposition to actually every thing I discovered throughout my time in service. Look, I feel in some ways it’s the exception that proves the rule, if the one factor that they will discover about Tim Walz to complain about is to disparage his army report. That was clearly honorable. Keep in mind, you may retire at 20 years. Tim Walz served for twenty-four.
And the truth that they’ve to return to discover a clip from 2018 to seek out the one time that he slipped up when he talks in regards to the weapons of conflict that he carried and stated one thing as an alternative about carrying a weapon in conflict. It’s form of an exception that proves the rule by way of how arduous it’s important to look to seek out Tim Walz saying something that isn’t exact and correct.
However there’s one thing I feel a lot greater at play right here, which is, I watched that interview and watched JD Vance current himself as out of the blue very specific about precision in speech and really involved about honesty. He’s working with Donald Trump, any person who has set data for mendacity in public life.
He simply gave a press convention the place reality checkers estimate that he instructed 162 distortions or lies that frankly is simply spectacular by way of with the ability to bodily try this. It’s just like the Olympics of mendacity. So possibly simply because it’s Sunday morning, I can’t cease serious about the scripture that claims, how will you take a look at your brother and say, let me take the speck out of your eye when you could have a plank in your individual eye.
Buttigieg stated that persons are exhausted by Trump and Vance’s model of politics, “That is precisely the form of politics that persons are sick of. I feel it’s why folks really feel a way of exhaustion once they look again to what the Trump period was like and have little or no curiosity and urge for food in going again to that politics of disparagement and destruction and insult when proper now you could have this unbelievable quantity of pleasure and elevate surrounding the Harris partitions marketing campaign. That’s a part of what accounts for the extraordinary momentum that we’re seeing as they tour the nation.”
Pete Buttigieg was right on all counts. Persons are uninterested in Trump and the MAGA politics that Vance is pushing. Trump’s politics are darkish and every thing is about dividing and harming folks.
Vance is a failed vice presidential candidate. JD Vance is doing so poorly that he’s even hurting the ticket in his residence state of Ohio.
Buttigieg dismantled Vance, as a result of the Ohio Senator simply his working mate represents a kind of ugly politics that America seems to be more and more able to reject.
Awards and Skilled Memberships
Member of the Society of Skilled Journalists and The American Political Science Affiliation
