‘You Shouldn’t Be Talking About Other People’s Children’: Buttigieg Hits Back at Vance Over ‘Childless’ Dig

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg hit back at Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance on Tuesday after Vance criticized him and other Democrats for being “without children.”

During an interview with Buttigieg on CNN’s The Source, host Kaitlan Collins played a 2021 clip of Vance saying, “You look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC, the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children. 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?”

Collins noted, “Now, I should note, you have two children. They were born before he gave that answer. Harris is also a stepmom to children as well. But what’s your response to that?”

Buttigieg replied:

The really sad thing is he said that after Chasten and I had been through a fairly heartbreaking setback in our adoption journey. He couldn’t have known that, but maybe that’s why you shouldn’t be talking about other people’s children. And it’s not about his kids or my kids or the vice president’s family. 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 and the freedom, the well-being of our families.

He concluded, “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?”

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