Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg slammed Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, for comments the Republican vice presidential nominee made in the past about "childless" Democrats.
Buttigieg, who adopted twins with his husband, Chasten, made his comments Tuesday on CNN's "The Source."
"The really sad thing is, he said that after Chasten [Buttigieg] and I had been through a fairly heartbreaking setback," Buttigieg said in the interview, highlighted by Mediaite. "He couldn't have known that, but maybe that's why you shouldn't be talking about other people's children."
In the recently resurfaced clip, Vance said that "the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children," and pointed to well-known Democrats, including Buttigieg, Vice President Kamala Harris, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.
"And how does it make any sense that we've turned our country over to people who don't really have a direct stake in it?" Vance said in the older clip.
Harris is a stepmother to Cole and Ella Emhoff, children her husband, Doug Emhoff, has from a previous relationship.
"And, it's not about his kids, or my kids, or the vice president's family," Buttigieg said Tuesday. "It's about your family, people's families whose well-being will depend on whether we go into a future led by somebody like Kamala Harris who is focused on expanding the prosperity, the freedom, the well-being of our families.
"Or do you want your children to grow up in a country defined by a return to the chaos and recrimination and cruelty that was the hallmark of the Trump era?"
Buttigieg's remarks come amid a role reversal at the top of the Democrat ticket. Following President Joe Biden's announcement on Sunday that he was ending his reelection bid, Harris stepped into the role of likely Democratic presidential nominee with Biden's endorsement.
Newsmax has reached out to both Vance and the Trump campaign for comment.