Tim Walz insulted J.D. Vance so horribly that even CNN thought he went too far
Kamala Harris put Tim Walz on the ticket to try and appeal to working-class voters in rural areas.
Walz then made his mission to smear Donald Trump’s running mate J.D. Vance at every turn.
But now Tim Walz insulted J.D. Vance so horribly that even CNN thought he went too far.
Tim Walz attacks J.D. Vance because he got a good education
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz’s bizarre convention speech contained many odd moments.
One of the strangest was when he attacked U.S. Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) for going to Yale Law School.
“I grew up in Butte, Nebraska, a town of 400 people. I had 24 kids in my high school class. And none of them went to Yale,” Walz thundered.
Walz also attacked Vance’s education in a previous interview on MSNBC.
“My hillbilly cousins did not go to Yale. But I’ll tell you what they did. They contributed to our community and they’re proud of it,” Walz stated.
Walz seems to think Vance – who wrote the bestselling book Hillbilly Elegy about his rough upbringing in Kentucky and Ohio where his down-on-their-luck family battled poverty and addiction – isn’t an authentic hillbilly because he rose above that to make something of himself.
Vance enlisted in the Marines and – unlike Walz who quit the Minnesota National Guard rather than deploy to combat – served in Iraq.
After returning home, he then used the G.I. Bill to attend Ohio State University where he graduated in two years before heading off to Yale.
That All-American story is what Walz thinks is somehow putting on airs.
CNN calls out Walz
Following Walz’s speech, CNN commentator and Republican strategist Scott Jennings blasted Walz for thinking Vance’s rising out of poverty to make himself into a success was a point of mockery.
“Something he [Walz] does that is so weird to me: The constant attacks on J.D. Vance for going to Yale. I don’t understand this,” said Jennings after Walz delivered his speech. “I’ve heard Walz proclaiming to be a small-town guy who wants everybody to get an education and succeed, and he spends a fair amount of time attacking J.D. Vance, who grew up poor and got an education, worked hard to get an education and rise above his station in life. And he has used it as a punchline on the campaign trail.”
Walz was a former high school teacher.
Jennings couldn’t understand why the message he would send to small-town kids is that getting a good education is shameful.
“I don’t understand what he’s trying to communicate to every small town, poor kid out there saying, ‘If you choose to work hard and go to an Ivy League school, you somehow abandoned your hometown?’” Jennings added.
Even Democrat commentator Van Jones agreed telling Jennings that he came from a small town and went to Yale, and he found Walz’s comments offensive.
“Speaking as one of those small-town kids who actually went to Yale, I do take exception to that. I think you are correct on that,” Jones told Jennings.
