Buttigieg On Pence: Did He Stop Believing In Scripture When He Started Believing In The Porn Star President?

Openly gay South Bend, Indiana mayor and 2020 presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg tore into Mike Pence during his town hall on CNN last night.

NBC News reports:

Buttigieg said that while he’s always disagreed “ferociously” with Pence on the key issues, he also thought the vice president always believed in “our institutions” and wasn’t “personally corrupt.” Buttigieg wondered when it changed, and how “the cheerleader of the porn-star presidency” could possibly get on the same page as the current administration.

“Is it that he stopped believing in scripture when he started believing in Donald Trump? I don’t know,” he said, adding that Pence’s “interpretation of scripture is pretty different than mine to begin with.”

Buttigieg, a Harvard alumnus, Rhodes scholar and son of Notre Dame professors, said his understanding of the Bible is about “protecting the stranger and the prisoner and the poor person.” The evangelical favorite Pence, he said, doesn’t see it that way.

Buttiegieg launched his exploratory committee in January.

Mayor Pete Buttigieg on @VP: “How could he allow himself to become the cheerleader of the porn star presidency? Is it that he stopped believing in scripture when he started believing in Donald Trump?” https://t.co/0w8SGn2Fw9 #CNNTownHall pic.twitter.com/7F6pvSfNOF

— State of the Union (@CNNSotu) March 11, 2019