Democrats sharpen criticism of Vance as they look past Trump to 2028
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Democrats are starting to treat Vice President JD Vance, not Donald Trump, as their number one focus among Republican leaders
FAIRFIELD, Ohio -- Although President Donald Trump is the top Democratic nemesis, some of the party’s most ambitious leaders are increasingly looking past him and at Vice President JD Vance.
In the latest example, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear traveled to Vance’s home county in Ohio, where on Saturday night he said the vice president had abandoned the communities that he wrote about in the memoir that made him famous.
Beshear said “Hillbilly Elegy,” which detailed Vance's hardscrabble upbringing, had “trafficked in tired stereotypes.”
“His book ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ was really hillbilly hate,” the governor said at a Democratic fundraiser in Butler County. “It is poverty tourism, because he ain’t from Appalachia.”
The broadside was not only a sign of Beshear’s own potential presidential aspirations, but a reflection of Vance’s status as the Republican heir apparent to the coalition that twice elected Trump to the White House.
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