Potential Dem VP Decide Comes After JD Vance
by Kathryn Rubino
Effectively, Joe Biden is out of the 2024 race for president. Dems have seemingly coalesced round Kamala Harris for the highest of the ticket, leaving the political hypothesis to deal with who would be the Democratic Vice President candidate.
There are many certified choices on the market, every bringing their very own pluses and minuses to the equation. One tantalizing choice is Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear. Beshear stacks up properly in opposition to the Republican VP alternative, JD Vance, and he’s already fielding questions from mainstream media about that potential. It’d be fascinating for lawyerly-types because it’d be a T14 regulation college matchup, pitting Beshar’s UVA Regulation versus Vance’s Yale.
However he additionally neutralizes Vance’s Appalachian enchantment. Vance received well-known exploiting his household in Hillbilly Elegy, and likes to faux that makes him a person of the individuals. Sure, he thinks you may repair the opioid disaster by leaning into Huge Pharma, (which very a lot feels just like the mistaken takeaway that anybody who actually cared concerning the devastation prescription narcotics have had on the area — and the nation), however that background is meant to be a part of what he brings to the GOP ticket.
However Kentucky’s native son is aware of higher. His current look on MSNBC gave a preview of the snark that he may count on from a VP debate between Beshear and Vance. Beshear . . .
“I want the American people to know what a Kentuckian is and what they look like, because let me just tell you that JD Vance ain’t from here. The nerve that he has to call the people of Kentucky, of eastern Kentucky ‘lazy.’ Listen, these are the hard-working coal miners that powered the Industrial Revolution, that created the strongest middle class that the world has ever seen, that powered us through two world wars. We should be thanking them, not calling them lazy. So today was an opportunity to both support the vice president, but also to stand up for my people. Nobody calls us names, especially those that have worked hard for the betterment of this country.”
And the Harris marketing campaign was impressed.
