Former presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg has questioned JD Vance’s drastic gear switch from calling Donald Trump “America’s Hitler” to becoming his vice president.

Talking to Pod Save America on Sunday, Buttigieg called Vance “a very smart person,” but added the 41-year-old is “not a very principled person.”

Buttigieg discussed the VP’s position as a successor to Trump after he was quizzed by host Jon Favreau about Vance’s “seeming inevitable candidacy in 2028.”

“I think he’s very intelligent. I think he’s very smooth. I think he’s very capable,” Buttigieg said, before weighing into recent parodies of Vance, including on last week’s South Park episode.

“Let’s be clear, we’re talking about a very smart person, not a very principled person. It didn’t take him many years to go from c

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