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South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg took a shot at Vice President Mike Pence – a man he used to work directly with during Pence’s time as governor of Indiana – calling him a “cheerleader for the porn star presidency” during CNN’s town hall on Sunday.
Buttigieg went on to question Pence’s faith, asking rhetorically whether Pence stopped “believing in scripture when he started believing Donald Trump.”
“How would he allow himself to become the cheerleader for the porn star presidency? Is it that he stopped believing in scripture when he started believing Donald Trump?” Buttigieg said. “I don’t know. I don’t know.”
Buttigieg also took several shots at the state of Indiana, with the underlying implication being that many Hoosier residents are bigoted.
“Frankly, when I first got into politics, elected politics at the beginning of this decade in Indiana — in Mike Pence’s Indiana — I thought you could either be out or you could be in office, but you couldn’t be both,” Buttigieg said.
“I came out in the middle of a reelection campaign because it was just that time in my life when I had to do that,” he continued. “Pence was governor. We weren’t sure what it would do to my political future in a socially conservative community.”
WIBC host Tony Katz responds to Buttigieg’s comments in the clip below.
