“I just don’t understand the mentality of somebody who gets up in the morning, thinking that he’s going to prove his worth by competing over who can make life hardest for a hard-hit community, that is already so vulnerable in America,” said Buttigieg, who is the first openly gay Cabinet member.

DeSantis has championed several laws restricting the rights of LGBTQ people in Florida as governor, most notably an education bill referred to by its critics as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which prohibits teachers from discussing gender identity or sexual orientation with some students. The bill spurred the GOP primary candidate’s controversial, months-long battle with Disney.

The video shared by the “DeSantis War Room” Twitter account angered some within the Republican party as well, including the Log Cabin Republicans, a group representing LGBT conservatives, who said the clip “ventured into homophobic territory.”