Pete Buttigieg, the US transportation secretary under Joe Biden – who is widely seen as having presidential ambitions – tore into JD Vance for saying childless people have no stake in their country, on the third day of the Democratic national convention. ‘You know, senator, when I deployed to Afghanistan, I didn’t have kids,’ Buttigieg said. ‘Then, many of the men and women who tied the wire with me didn’t have kids either, but let me tell you, our commitment to the future of this country was pretty damn physical’
