Trump’s campaign has condemned remarks from Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear suggesting that J.D. Vance’s family should experience “pregnancy resulting from rape.”
During a Tuesday morning appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski asked Beshear to “make sense” of an argument from Republicans that babies are being aborted at nine months.
The Kentucky governor accused Republicans of using “fear tactics.”
“Think about what some people have had to go through because of these laws,” he continued. “I mean, J.D. Vance calls pregnancy resulting from rape inconvenient. Like, inconvenience is traffic. Make him go through this.”
Beshear added: “It is someone being violated, someone being harmed, and then telling them that they don’t have options after that? That fails any test of decency, of humanity.” "JD Vance calls pregnancy resulting from rape 'inconvenient'. Inconvenience is traffic... They don't have any empathy at all. And a president and a vice president have to have empathy."
— @GovAndyBeshear on restricting abortion healthcare https://t.co/XpUHp0kHfb pic.twitter.com/zLuNvSEA8H
— Morning Joe (@Morning_Joe) August 20, 2024
In an X post, Vance referred to Beshear as “a disgusting person.”
“What the hell is this?” he wrote. “Why is Andy Beshear wishing that a member of my family would get raped?!?”
The Trump campaign condemned Beshear’s comments in a statement.
“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,” wrote William Martin, Vance’s communications director.
“His comments are disgusting, vile, and should not be tolerated in American politics,” he said. “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.”
During another appearance on MSNBC, Beshear was asked if he really meant that he wished for a member of Vance’s family to be raped.
“Of course not,” he said. “It’s ridiculous, but it’s also deflection. J.D. Vance knows that he and Donald Trump are so wrong on this issue. And so, he’s trying to make himself a victim.”
The Kentucky governor then accused Vance of not having empathy “to understand why having exceptions, having reproductive freedom, is so important in the first place.”
“Obviously, I’d never wish harm on anyone,” he added. Kentucky Gov Andy Beshear is refusing to apologize after wishing for a member of JD Vance's family to be r*ped and says Vance is just trying to be a victim.
Evil. pic.twitter.com/JzEU8VJuWZ
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 20, 2024
A brief clips of Beshear's comments, which now has 2.5 million views, was denounced by other X users, including Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie.
“Please don’t judge Kentucky based on our Democrat Governor’s disgusting remarks,” he wrote. This is easily one of the most disgusting things I've ever heard a politician say. Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear says he hopes for a relative of JD Vance get raped and pregnant from the rape. pic.twitter.com/WD0JexlDr1 Apparently the "party of joy" believes that in order to best make pro-life people come around to being pro-abortion, their children should be raped.
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) August 20, 2024
And Gov. Beshear is apparenftly a nice and moderate Democrat.
When your enemy tells you who they are, BELIEVE THEM. https://t.co/ECGklLsKWN
— Kristan Hawkins (@KristanHawkins) August 20, 2024 These people feign compassion and “joy” and then turn around and wish rape on JD Vance’s wife and family? This is not just a slip of the tongue from a Harris surrogate. It’s revealing of how these people think. It’s an evil thing to say and Andy Beshear should be ashamed of… https://t.co/jHsixzmmkX Here’s JD Vance with his daughter Mirabel on the campaign trail.
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) August 20, 2024
Democrat Andy Beshear just went on MSNBC’s Morning Joe and called on someone to r*pe her.
That is what the Democrats mean when they say they’re the party of “joy.” pic.twitter.com/QJ9uOABm6D
— Bad Hombre (@joma_gc) August 20, 2024 Andy Beshear clearly wished r*pe on a family member of JD Vance. I hope the state of Kentucky starts a recall petition immediately. He's a vile and sick person to say something like that. https://t.co/oEmbf66P8t
— Anita Davis 🇺🇸 (@AnitaDa28296174) August 20, 2024
