JD Vance Twists Gov. Andy Beshear's Abortion Remarks Into Sick Accusation

Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) wildly accused Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear of “wishing” someone in Vance’s family would get raped after the Democrat criticized the senator’s past comments about pregnancies that result from sexual assault.

In a Tuesday interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Beshear called out Republicans for their “extreme” stances on abortion bans and denounced Vance for opposing exceptions in cases of rape and incest.

Appearing to reference comments the Republican made during his run for the Senate in 2021, Beshear told host Mika Brzezinski, “JD Vance calls pregnancy resulting from rape ‘inconvenient.’ Inconvenience is traffic. I mean, it is, make him go through this.”

“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.”

In 2021, Vance said allowing access to abortion in cases of rape or incest is not a matter of “whether a woman should be forced to bring a child to term” but an issue of if “a child should be allowed to live even though the circumstances of that child’s birth are somehow inconvenient or a problem to society.”

“The question really, to me, is about the baby,” he concluded.

After Beshear helped bring the Ohio senator’s cold comments to light, Vance responded with outrage Tuesday in a post on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.

Twisting the governor’s words into an attack on his family, the vice presidential candidate wrote, “What the hell is this? Why is @AndyBeshearKY wishing that a member of my family would get raped?!? What a disgusting person.”

Beshear balked at Vance’s characterization while speaking to MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell later on Tuesday, accusing the senator of