Buttigieg suggests Trump didn’t ’even pretend’ to care about how Vance would govern

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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg went after former President Donald Trump’s comments on his running mate from the National Association of Black Journalists convention Wednesday, suggesting he only picked him for votes, not for the job he’d do as vice-president.

Buttigieg’s comments on MSNBC come directly after Trump received a hostile reception at the convention, which Vice President Kamala Harris could not attend.

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