“I’m going to leave aside the strangeness of trying to prove your manhood by putting up a video that splices images of you in between oiled up shirtless bodybuilders,” Buttigieg said. “And just get to the bigger issue that that is on my mind whenever I see this stuff in the policy space — which is, again, who are you trying to help? Who are you trying to make better off? And what public policy problems do you get up in the morning thinking about how to solve?”
The secretary cited recent trips he made to Kentucky and North Dakota announcing various infrastructure initiatives and compared those trips to the governor’s attack ad — which was denounced by, among others, the Log Cabin Republicans, which is the largest LGBTQ Republican group in America.