Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has been remarkably tight-lipped about whether or not he is within the working to be Kamala Harris’ vice presidential candidate — and he continued to be coy about his possibilities in his newest look on “The Day by day Present.”
“All I ought to say about it’s that, , she is gonna make this resolution,” Buttigieg informed host Jon Stewart in an episode that aired on Monday night time. “She’s received a course of to assist her make the choice.”
“Oh my god, you are being vetted. Every part you say, even that, is being vetted,” Stewart mentioned.
“Most likely,” Buttigieg mentioned earlier than chuckling.
Buttigieg’s response is notable for the way he did not rule himself out as a possible working mate.
Representatives for the Harris marketing campaign didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from BI despatched outdoors common enterprise hours.
The previous mayor of South Bend, Indiana, made waves in 2020 for his presidential marketing campaign. He began out robust and received Iowa’s Democratic presidential caucuses.
Buttigieg, nonetheless, would drop out from the race only a month later when his marketing campaign misplaced traction.
The Harvard graduate and Rhodes Scholar later endorsed President Joe Biden, who went on to win in 2020. Buttigieg later joined the Biden administration as transportation secretary.
Buttigieg’s identify has been floated alongside different contenders, which embrace Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, and Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona.
A kind of candidates, Gov. Roy Cooper of North Carolina, mentioned he was withdrawing himself from consideration on Monday night time.
Selecting Buttigieg as Harris’ working mate would place him in stark distinction with former President Donald Trump’s vice presidential choose, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio.
Moreover having ties to the Midwest, each males have served with the armed forces — Buttigieg with the US Navy Reserve and Vance with the Marine Corps.
However that is so far as the similarities go. Vance has just lately come beneath hearth after his previous remarks on childless people from a 2021 speech resurfaced.
“If you do not have as a lot of an funding in the way forward for this nation, possibly you should not get almost the identical voice,” Vance mentioned in a speech at an Intercollegiate Research Institute convention.
Buttigieg, who shares two kids along with his husband Chasten, slammed Vance’s remarks throughout his interview with Stewart.
“Once I was deployed to Afghanistan, I did not have children again then, however I’ll let you know, particularly when there was a rocket assault occurring, my dedication to this nation felt fairly bodily,” he mentioned.
