Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has apologized for a comment about Ohio Sen. JD Vance earlier this week — but not to Vance. Beshear, one of the leading contenders for the Democratic vice presidential nomination, apologized to the makers of Diet Mountain Dew for questioning Vance's beverage choice.
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear speaks during an interview at the Kentucky State Capitol in Frankfort, Ky., Monday, July 22, 2024. Beshear, at his regularly scheduled news conference at the Kentucky State Capitol on Thursday, pulled out a bottle of Diet Mountain Dew and apologized to the makers of the soft drink. Earlier in the week, the Republican vice-presidential nominee had said at athat he’d had a Diet Mountain Dew that day and fully expected to be called a “racist” because of it.
“Folks, I’ve been a person that when sometimes I’ve gone over the line, I’ve wanted to make sure that I set the record straight, so, I do owe an apology to Diet Mountain Dew,” Beshear said. The Kentucky governor wasn’t ready to retreat from his attacks on the “Hillbilly Elegy” author for what he said was misrepresentingand calling people who live there lazy in the book. Vance grew up in Middletown, Ohio, and while he has family in Kentucky, Beshear has said bluntly: “He ain’t from here.
“To spend some summers or parts of summers or weekends or come into special events and then to claim that you know the people of eastern Kentucky, the culture of eastern Kentucky, to make money off of that claim and then to call our people names, is just not acceptable. If anybody else had done it, I’d be speaking up, too.”
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