Buttigieg brings up Vance beef at Demo­c­ra­t­ic con­ven­tion

CHICAGO — Trans­porta­tion Sec­re­tary Pete Buttigieg dredged up his griev­ances with Repub­li­can vice pres­i­den­tial nom­i­nee Sen. J.D. Vance (R‑OH) dur­ing his 2024 Demo­c­ra­t­ic Nation­al Con­ven­tion address, a win­dow into an alter­nate uni­verse in which Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Har­ris tapped him as her run­ning mate.
“At least Mike Pence was polite,” Buttigieg told Chicago’s Unit­ed Cen­ter on Wednes­day. “J.D. Vance is one of those guys who thinks if you don’t live the life he has in mind for you, then you don’t count. Some­one who thinks that if you don’t have kids you have ‘no phys­i­cal com­mit­ment to the future of this coun­try.’”
“You know, sen­a­tor, when I was deployed to Afghanistan, I didn’t have kids then,” he said. “Many of the men and women who went out­side the wire with me did not have kids then. But let me tell you, our com­mit­ment to the future of this coun­try was pret­ty damn phys­i­cal.”
Democ­rats have start­ed crit­i­ciz­ing Vance as “weird” after com­ments he made in 2021 about Har­ris, Buttigieg, and oth­er Democ­rats as “a bunch of child­less cat ladies mis­er­able at their own lives.”
Buttigieg report­ed­ly met with Har­ris regard­ing becom­ing he …