Democrat Gov Andy Beshear of Kentucky refuses to apologize to Vice-Presidential candidate JD Vance for saying that he wished a family member of his would be raped.
“J.D. Vance calls pregnancy from rape ‘inconvenient,’ like inconvenience is traffic. Make him go through this,” said Beshear.
Vance called him out on the disgusting remarks on X.
“What the hell is this?” he asked. “Why is Andy Beshear wishing that a member of my family would get raped?!? What a disgusting person.”
Following Beshear’s comments, the Trump campaign also condemned Beshear’s remarks.
“After speaking on the DNC main stage last night, Harris campaign surrogate Governor Andy Beshear went on national television this morning and explicitly called for a member of Senator Vance’s family to be raped,” William Martin, Vance Communications Director, said. “His comments are disgusting, vile, and should not be tolerated in American politics. We call on Kamala Harris to immediately repudiate Governor Beshear’s comments and demonstrate that regardless of partisan disagreements, this kind of violent rhetoric has no place in our public discourse.”
But Beshear refuses to apologize and laughed twice when appearing on MSNBC about the comments.
“So, how do you respond to that? I mean, is that what you were talking about?”
“Of course not,” he said.
Beshear also continued to insult Vance more by calling the Vance’s response “ridiculous, but also deflection.”
“JD Vance knows that he and Donald Trump are so wrong on this issue, and now he’s trying to make himself the victim,” Beshear added.
“You know, as a man, JD Vance will never have to go through this personally,” Beshear said. “It’s sad that he lacks the empathy to be able to put himself in a different position and to be able to understand why having exceptions, having reproductive freedom is so important in the first place.”
“Obviously, I’d never wish harm on anyone. It’s just, again, deflection trying to make Donald Trump and himself the victims,” he said.
Vance also commented further on the matter.
“I never once called rape ‘inconvenient,’” Vance made clear, adding that “it’s a total fiction of the Democratic National Committee. I never said it, I never said anything like it.”
“What I was talking about was the context of an unexpected pregnancy, not one caused by rape, and I think that we should see unexpected pregnancies, babies that come from them, as inconveniences. Of course rape is a terrible, terrible tragedy, a terrible, terrible thing. I never said what the Democratic Party accused me of saying,” Vance also shared.
