Fox News host Laura Ingraham Laura Anne IngrahamEx-Pence aide: Trump spent 45 minutes of task force meeting 'going off on Tucker Carlson' instead of talking coronavirus Sean Hannity and Lou Dobbs to be deposed in Seth Rich lawsuit: report NYC living statue shows Trump desecrating graves of war dead, COVID-19 victims MORE on Monday fired back at Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg Pete ButtigiegThe Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by Facebook - GOP closes ranks to fill SCOTUS vacancy by November Buttigieg stands in as Pence for Harris's debate practice Hillicon Valley: FBI, DHS warn that foreign hackers will likely spread disinformation around election results | Social media platforms put muscle into National Voter Registration Day | Trump to meet with Republican state officials on tech liability shield MORE after the South Bend, Ind., mayor hit the opinion host during a recent town hall appearance.

Ingraham said that the Democratic field is all fighting to get noticed while former Vice President Joe Biden Joe BidenBiden on Trump's refusal to commit to peaceful transfer of power: 'What country are we in?' Democratic groups using Bloomberg money to launch M in Spanish language ads in Florida Harris faces pivotal moment with Supreme Court battle MORE leads most polls by a large margin.

“The other Democrat candidates are left to pick up whatever table scraps they can get,” Ingraham said. “And then there’s Mayor Pete, who desperately needs a re-Buttigieg.”

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Ahead of Buttigieg's appearance at a Fox News town hall, he said many of the broadcast network’s opinion hosts “don’t operate in good faith.”

Ingraham shot back on Monday, saying “beyond his Boy Scout demeanor and Mayor Pete shtick, Buttigieg is but another creation of a media apparatus desperate to oust Trump.”

Jabbing at Buttigieg’s faith-related town hall remarks, Ingraham added that “maybe we should call him ‘Pope Pete.’ ”

“Don’t you love how, because Pete attends church, we are to treat him like the be-all and end-all moral authority? The arbiter of who is and who is not operating in good faith?” she said.

“So he finds conservative media objectionable, but the third-trimester abortions? They are perfectly moral,” Ingraham said before showing a clip of Buttigieg saying he “trusts women” to draw the line when it comes to abortion.

“Well is that an example of good faith? Is that what you actually call that?” Ingraham added. “I think we need a papal proclamation.”

Ingraham also issued an invite for Buttigieg to come on her show, but said she would not "let him traffic in the generalities of complex issues."