Beshear: ‘It hurts’ to see Trump, Vance lie about election, natural disasters
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) said in an interview Sunday that “it hurts” to see former President Trump and Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), the Republican vice presidential nominee, lie about the results of the 2020 election and natural disasters.
During Beshear’s “This Week” appearance, ABC News’s Martha Raddatz referenced an interview she had done with Vance earlier in the show, in which she pressed the Ohio senator on Trump's 2020 election loss. Vance did not answer her question.
“It's just amazing. Apparently, there is no lie too big for Donald Trump and JD Vance,” Beshear said in response to the Vance interview. “I mean, when you ask him about the last election, all you're asking him to do is admit reality, and we deserve to have a vice president who believes in democracy and can say, ‘Yes, Donald Trump lost the last election, and now we're running in this election.’”
Beshear also bemoaned the "lies" being told about disaster response from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
"Listen, in Kentucky, we went through our worst tornado disaster and our worst flood disaster in our history, and I didn't have to deal with any of the shenanigans that Donald Trump [is] putting out right now,” Beshear said.
The Kentucky governor later added that “it hurts” when it comes to “all this [misinformation].”
In recent weeks, Vance has refused to acknowledge that Trump lost the 2020 election on multiple occasions.
And as two destructive hurricanes have killed dozens of people and upended the lives of millions across the Southeast, Trump has implied that aid from FEMA to people who faced home destruction is capped at $750, which is false.
The Hill has reached out to a spokesperson for Vance and the Trump campaign for comment.
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