He was probably accurate in his description, but it looks out of place for an adult to make such a personal dig about a teenager, no matter what party she roots for. Most people would say that he ‘attacked’ her. I’m glad he took himself out of the campaign. To say something like that shows his own lack of maturity or sense of decorum.
Once anybody decides to enter the sphere of politics they have consented to engage in the current style of political discourse. It may be rough and tumble, and downright crude, but once you decide to join in you can't complain about the rules of the game.
Of course the leftists use the race card, the woman card, the I'm a victim card, and now the I'm a child or teenager card.
The teenagers who are busy pushing a political agenda don't bother to say a word about the fellow student and teenager who gave his life helping others during the attack, and they were pushing their activist message before their friends were even off the operating room table. They aren't the poor, suffering children they portray themselves as.
But they are sure ready to fool people like you into taking their side.