Minnesota's Democratic Governor Tim Walz, who is rumored to be a potential running mate for Vice President (and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee) Kamala Harris, recently slammed Sen. J.D.
Vance (R-OH) on one of his major biographical claims. During a Tuesday interview on MSNBC's Morning Joe , Walz blasted Vance over his claims of expertise on rural America, and contrasted it with his own experience of growing up in a town of 400 people with "24 kids in my graduating class" where "12 were cousins." "People like J.
D. Vance know nothing about small-town America," Walz said. "He gets it all wrong.
It's not about hate." READ MORE: 'Less integrity than a Boeing 737': Comedian 'Liberal Redneck' recounts night out with JD Vance In his memoir Hillbilly Elegy , Vance wrote about his background growing up in a lower-income suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was exposed as a child to relatives in the grip of addiction and mired in poverty. However, Vance ended up enlisting in the military and eventually enrolled at Yale Law School before becoming a venture capitalist in San Francisco, California.
Vance's selection as former President Donald Trump's 2024 running mate prompted comedian Trae Crowder (also known as "the liberal redneck") to suggest Vance was a fraud . Walz expressed a similar sentiment on Morning Joe, and accused Trump and Vance of pitting rural Americans against each other. "Their policies are what destroyed rural America.
They divided us. They're in our exam r.