Buttigieg lights into Trump and Vance, saying they’re “doubling down on negativity and grievance”

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg opened his speech on the Democratic Nationwide Conference Wednesday night time with a nod to his latest tv appearances on Fox Information, telling the gang, “I am Pete Buttigieg, and also you would possibly acknowledge me from Fox Information.”

He launched into criticisms of former President Donald Trump and his working mate, Sen. JD Vance, who he characterised as “a kind of guys who thinks should you do not reside the life he has in thoughts for you, then you do not rely.”

“Selecting a man like JD Vance to be America’s subsequent vp sends a message, all proper: doubling down on negativity and grievance. An idea of campaigning greatest summed up in a single phrase: darkness. That is what they’re promoting. However I simply do not assume America at the moment is out there for darkness,” he mentioned.

Buttigieg additionally referenced a 2021 speech Vance gave, through which he mentioned that individuals with out youngsters have “no bodily dedication to the way forward for this nation.”

“After I deployed to Afghanistan, I did not have youngsters then, most of the women and men who went outdoors the wire with me did not have youngsters both,” Buttigieg mentioned. “However let me inform you, our dedication to the way forward for this nation was fairly rattling bodily.”

Buttigieg mentioned he believes politics may be “empowering and uplifting,” and accused Republicans of pushing a message that casts folks of various political viewpoints because the enemy.

“I consider in a greater politics, one which finds us at our most first rate, and open, and courageous,” he mentioned.

Buttigieg spoke of the nation’s progress via his personal story, the place he and his husband, Chasten, are elevating two youngsters at their residence in Michigan. 

“This November we get to decide on. We get to decide on our president, we get to decide on our insurance policies, however most of all, we’ll select a greater politics, a politics that calls us to our higher selves  and presents us a greater every single day,” he mentioned. “That’s what Kamala Harris and Tim Walz characterize. That’s what Democrats characterize. That’s what awaits us when America decides to finish Trump’s politics of darkness as soon as and for all.”