Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio) went after her fellow Ohioan and current Republican vice presidential nominee, Sen. JD Vance, saying he “is not good for Ohio” in an interview Saturday.
“JD Vance is not good for Ohio, he’s not good for America, he doesn’t fight for the everyday people,” Beatty said on “The Katie Phang Show” on MSNBC. “He’s actually more than weird, he’s a joke.”
A recent ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll found more respondents seeing Vance’s Democratic counterpart, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), in a better light in comparison to Vance. Thirty-nine percent of respondents in the poll said they either have a “strongly” or “somewhat” positive view of the Minnesota governor, while 32 percent of the respondents said they either have a “strongly” or “somewhat” positive view of the Ohio senator.
“When you think about how he has gotten everything, from his jobs, to even getting this position, he was walked in the door by a mega-Republican tech billionaire,” Beatty said, possibly referring to billionaire Peter Thiel, whose venture capital firm Vance joined after law school and who also gave $15 million to a super PAC backing him in the 2022 midterms.