United States Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg reaffirmed his support for President Joe Biden on Friday night (19).
Appearing on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” the official told Maher, “I’m here because I believe in Joe Biden.”
“I didn’t come here to say he’s not 10 years older than he was 10 years ago or to deny that he sometimes mixes up names, like Donald Trump sometimes does. But the thing about Joe Biden is he’s very good at being president,” Buttigieg said.
Buttigieg has avoided commenting on a possible open Democratic National Convention, focusing instead on this week’s Republican National Convention.
The Transportation Secretary also criticized newly nominated Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance, characterizing the Ohio senator as someone “who would say whatever it takes to get ahead.”
He brought up Vance’s history of opposing Trump, mentioning that Vance called Trump “just another opioid” for Central America a few years ago.
“I mean, for someone whose identity is that they’re connected to Appalachia, which has an opioid crisis, that’s really the darkest thing you could say about Donald Trump — at least in public, but behind the scenes, apparently, he is actually calling him Hitler”, recalled the Biden administration secretary.
In 2016, Vance wondered before Trump’s election if he was “America’s Hitler.” But in 2020, Vance fully embraced Trump and said he regretted his critical comments.
In the interview, Buttigieg also compared Vance to former Vice President Mike Pence, noting how quick Trump was to abandon his former vice president.
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