Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear Accuses JD Vance of Stolen Hillbilly Valor: ‘Total Phony!’
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear called vice presidential candidate and Hillbilly Elegy author JD Vance “phony” for aligning himself with Donald Trump after previously railing against him.
On Monday, Beshear appeared on The Source with Kaitlan Collins to respond to claims Vance has made about both him and the former president. During that segment, Beshear took issue with Vance’s sudden change of heart on Trump.
“Listen, JD Vance is a phony,” Beshear said. “He’s fake. I mean, he first says that Donald Trump is like Hitler; and now he’s acting like he’s Lincoln. The problem with JD Vance is he has no conviction; but I guess his running mate has 34.
Beshear has also called out Vance for proudly touting his Appalachian upbringing. Although Vance said he spent summers in Kentucky with his grandmother, he’s from Ohio.
In response to Beshear’s comments, Vance told Politico that his “entire family” is from Eastern Kentucky. He doesn’t hide the fact that he himself is from Ohio, but acknowledged that the region is important to him.
Vance then then turned his attention to Beshear’s own upbringing, questioning how someone “whose first job was at his dad’s law firm and inherited the governorship” can criticize him.
“He is not from Kentucky,” Beshear continued. “Listen, this is a guy who would come maybe in the summers for some period of time, or to weddings or funerals; and then he claims to be from Eastern Kentucky, tries to write a book about it to profit off our people; and then he calls us ‘lazy.’ And this makes me angry, but especially makes me angry about our people in Eastern Kentucky.
“Listen, these are the hard-working coal miners that powered the industrial revolution, that helped build the strongest middle class the world has ever seen, helped us win two world wars; and he called them ‘lazy,’ acting like he understands our culture and he’s one of us. He’s not.”
Watch above via CNN
