KEENE, N.H. — The husband of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg stated Thursday he hasn’t heard from Mike Pence within the days because the former vp mocked his household, however will proceed to carry him accountable for his phrases.

Chasten Buttigieg was requested on ABC’s “The View” whether or not Pence contacted him after joking at a dinner for journalists and politicians that Pete Buttigieg took “maternity depart” after he and his husband adopted new child twins.

“Pete is the one particular person in human historical past to have a baby and everybody else will get postpartum despair,” Pence stated Saturday on the Gridiron Dinner.

Chasten Buttigieg, who stated he doesn’t anticipate to listen to from Pence, referred to as the remarks “a part of a a lot greater development attacking households.”

“I spoke up as a result of all of us have an obligation to carry individuals accountable for once they say one thing incorrect, particularly when it’s misogynistic, particularly when it’s homophobic, and I simply don’t take that when it’s in direction of my household, and I don’t assume anybody else would, particularly whenever you carry a really small, medically fragile youngster into it,” he stated.

Pence defended his feedback Thursday night time after talking at a Republican Get together dinner in New Hampshire.

“The Gridiron Dinner is a roast. I had a variety of jokes directed to me, and I directed a variety of jokes to Republicans and Democrats,” he instructed reporters. “The one factor I can determine is Pete Buttigieg not solely can’t do his job, however he can’t take a joke.”