Buttigieg blasts Trump for ‘lazy’ cam­paign attacks: ‘He’s lost a step’

Trans­porta­tion Sec­re­tary Pete Buttigieg won­dered Fri­day if Repub­li­can pres­i­den­tial nom­i­nee Don­ald Trump’s heart was in the 2024 cam­paign any­more, call­ing his attacks on Demo­c­ra­t­ic vice pres­i­den­tial can­di­date Tim Walz “pret­ty mushy and lazy.”
Buttigieg, whose name was also spec­u­lat­ed to be in the Demo­c­ra­t­ic vice pres­i­den­tial con­ver­sa­tion, appeared on CNN to dis­cuss a range of top­ics, includ­ing Trump’s Thurs­day press con­fer­ence at his Mar-a-Lago resort, which many crit­ics described as “ram­bling.” The net­work played a clip of the for­mer president’s remarks about Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Harris’s run­ning mate.
Har­ris “picked a rad­i­cal left man that … has posi­tions that … it’s just not even pos­si­ble to believe that they exist,” Trump said. “He’s going for things that nobody’s ever even heard of, heavy into the trans­gen­der world, heavy int …