The co-hosts of The View were critical of 2020 presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg Wednesday for reiterating that he’s the youngest presidential candidate during the previous night’s debate.
The 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana would be the youngest president in the country’s history if he gets elected.
“Does Buttigieg have to keep reminding us that he was younger than Bernie’s original hips?” Joy Behar asked.
“I thought that was so obnoxious too, by the way,” Meghan McCain responded.
“He kept saying, ‘As long as I’ve been alive,’ ‘I’m young, I’m young, and you’re old,’ is basically what — and Bernie’s like, ‘Oh, pick up these glasses,'” Behar continued, impersonating an elderly person.
Whoopi Goldberg then chimed in, “I did point that out to the — when he was here. It’s one of the things that I don’t appreciate because there have been — again, I keep saying it. You all are standing on shoulders that have been fighting these fights for years.”
“It’s terribly disrespectful, and I do not like Bernie as his policies. But I do think, he did write the damn bill, and he’s been in office for a million years,” McCain added.
Buttigieg was asked about his age during the debate when CNN’s Jake Tapper wondered if voters should “take into consideration age when choosing a presidential candidate?”
“I don’t care how old you are. I care about your vision,” he answered. “But I do think it matters that we have a new generation of leaders stepping up around the world, leaders like the, I actually think it’s good that the prime minister of New Zealand’s gotten a lot of attention in Democratic debates. She’s masterful. She is younger than I would be when I take office.”
