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Presidential daughters have a certain image they're supposed to uphold — they're meant to be mild-mannered, poised and supportive of their parents' presidential duties. But, they're also children who are raised in the spotlight. In other words, every small act of teenage rebellion — no matter how normal — is captured by the paparazzi. These first daughters were the rebels of the White House. Source

The Southern Poverty Law Center, which pressures financial institutions to blacklist the mainstream conservative and Christian organizations it places on a “hate map” with chapters of the Ku Klux Klan, published an article purportedly “debunking ADF’s ‘debanking’ conspiracy theory.” Alliance Defending Freedom, the organization SPLC attacked, has raised the alarm about financial institutions denying banking services to customers based on their religious or political affiliations. ADF has pointed to numerous instances of what it describes as debanking, though the banks in question claim the denials of service were not religiously or politically motivated. SPLC not only took the banks’ word for it, but acted as though its own calls for financial institutions to stop “funding hate” did not amount to a debanking pressure campaign. “By conflating the market consequences for supporting hate and extremism—such as customers choosing not to patronize and shareholders not investing in corporations that do business with extremist groups—ADF has perpetuated a false conspiracy theory that claims big government and big corporations are victimizing conservative Christians,” the SPLC’s R.G. Cravens wrote. Cravens faulted ADF for supporting the Fair Access to Banking Act, which Cravens said would “coerce banks and financial institutions to violate their corporate DEI [diversity, equity, and inclusion] values, forcing them to do business with hate and extremist groups.” Debanking “Hate” Nowhere did Cravens note or acknowledge that the SPLC’s “hate” and “extremist” accusations are highly contested. As my book, “Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center,” explains, critics on both the Right and the Left have vehemently disagreed with the SPLC’s decision to put ADF on the “hate map” with chapters of the Klan. This “hate map” suggests that groups like ADF—a leading conservative Christian law firm that has won multiple Supreme Court cases—are motivated by the same kind of hate that drove horrific racist lynchings in the early 1900s. The SPLC’s latest update of the “hate map” describes every organization on the map as part of the “organizational infrastructure… upholding white supremacy.” Cravens went on to claim that the media appearances of Jeremy Tedesco, senior vice president of corporate engagement at ADF, “suggest ADF is drawing on both Christian right and white nationalist themes to build its case for government regulation to stop what it characterizes as an anti-white and anti-Christian conspiracy.” The SPLC did not respond to The Daily Signal’s request for proof that ADF had ever characterized debanking as “an anti-white and anti-Christian conspiracy.” “Anti-White”? Tedesco vehemently denied the claim. “Both claims are outright and disgusting lies,” the ADF senior vice president told The Daily Signal in written comments Monday. “But we should not be surprised. One way the SPLC makes money is by lying to its donors. Indeed, a former SPLC employee wrote that he and his colleagues felt like ‘pawns in what was, in many respects, a highly profitable scam.'” When specifically asked if ADF ever characterized debanking as “anti-white,” Tedesco replied, “Never.” “We view the rise in politically motivated debanking as a risk to all Americans, regardless of their political or religious views,” he explained. “As we’ve written elsewhere, Senators [Elizabeth] Warren and Bernie Sanders have similarly warned of the rise in politicized de-banking. Is the SPLC prepared to slander them as bigots for flagging this real concern?” Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, and Sanders, a Vermont Independent, joined with Reps. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., and Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., in sending letters to JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and Citibank requesting information on how the banks might be engaging in viewpoint discrimination against Muslim Americans. Kristen Waggoner, CEO, president, and general counsel at ADF, wrote an op-ed praising these lawmakers, saying they “were right to sound the alarm.” “No American should have to worry that their bank account will be canceled or in any way penalized because of their religious or political views,” Waggoner wrote. Forced to Violate Values Cravens’ charge that ADF would “coerce” banks into violating “their corporate DEI values” echoes ADF’s own arguments defending Christian graphic designers like 303 Creative owner Lori Smith. Last year, the Supreme Court agreed with ADF graphic designers like Smith have an artistic expression free speech right to decline to celebrate events with which they disagree, in Smith’s case a same-sex wedding. Critics like the SPLC have branded this a “license to discriminate,” and Cravens appears to have tried to flip the script on ADF by arguing that financial companies’ diversity, equity, and inclusion values should enable them to deny services to “hate groups.” Tedesco drew a clear distinction between the two cases. “It’s simple. A bank is not speaking when it opens or closes a customer’s bank account,” he told The Daily Signal. “On the other hand, people who speak for a living—photographers, videographers, web designers, graphic artists, etc.— are protected by the First Amendment and cannot be forced to express ideas they disagree with.” “For example, a Democrat publicist could decline to pen Republican talking points and an atheist graphic artist could decline to design bulletin boards promoting the existence of God,” Tedesco added. “The First Amendment permits these decisions when the individual objects to the message they are being asked to promote. But banks do not speak when they provide generic, nonexpressive commercial services like a bank account or payment processing.” Evidence of Debanking Ultimately, Tedesco claimed, the SPLC’s attack falls apart because debanking is a real concern. He cited a recent court filing from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau noting that “a discriminatory act—such as debanking a Christian based on their religion” is a legitimate concern. “SPLC has also advocated for debanking of its perceived political opponents for years,” Tedesco added. “For example, it partnered with [the Council on American-Islamic Relations] to push donor-advised funds to debank mainstream conservative and Christian nonprofits in a report titled Hate-Free Philanthropy.” Last year, the SPLC released a report on “extremist finance” that pressured donor-advised funds operated by major banks to blacklist “hate groups” like ADF, “extremist” groups like the parental rights nonprofit Moms for Liberty, and even “hard right” groups like Turning Point USA. In 2019, the Amalgamated Foundation, a project of the SEIU-owned Amalgamated Bank, launched the “Hate Is Not Charitable” campaign, urging donor-advised funds to blacklist groups the SPLC brands “hate groups.” “Debanking is clearly on the rise,” Tedesco told The Daily Signal. He pointed to a resource page titled “Instances of Viewpoint-Based De-Banking.” The page notes that financial services companies revoked services from organizations that the SPLC attacked on its “hate map.” In 2017, Vanco Payments abruptly ceased providing payment processing services to the Ruth Institute. Vanco Payments noted that the Ruth Institute “has been flagged by Card Brands as being affiliated with a product/service that promotes hate, violence, harassment and/or abuse.” It did not specifically cite the SPLC, but the “hate” accusation likely traces back to the SPLC’s branding the institute an “anti-LGBTQ hate group.” In 2022, PayPal froze the Moms for Liberty account, providing no explanation. Only after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, pressured the company did it restore the account and allow Moms for Liberty to access the $4,500 in that account. Some companies, such as Eventbrite, make no secret of the fact that they use the SPLC “hate map” to blacklist organizations, refusing to do business with them. In the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network sent an email to leadership at major banks, urging them to stop “bankrolling bigotry,” specifically citing the SPLC on “hate groups.” The Southern Poverty Law Center did not respond to a request for comment about its own track record encouraging debanking and other attempts to ostracize conservatives. The post Group That Pushes Finance to Blacklist Conservatives Calls Debanking a ‘Conspiracy Theory’ appeared first on The Daily Signal.

DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Fox News’ Bill Hemmer challenged Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign communications director Michael Tyler on Tuesday about his justification for President Joe Biden’s speech not starting until late the night before. Biden took the stage long after he was scheduled to give his prime-time address to headline the first night of the Democratic National Convention, appearing close to midnight on the East Coast. Hemmer, on “America’s Newsroom,” seemed incredulous when Tyler said the reason for Biden’s speech delay was the frequent applause breaks for the speakers that took the stage before the president’s address. 'Are We To Buy That?': Fox News' Bill Hemmer Confronts Harris Campaign Official About Excuse For Biden's Late Speech pic.twitter.com/tuSzlfqt7E— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) August 20, 2024 “There’s no doubt that we got a little bit behind schedule, but the fact of the matter is that you had speaker after speaker after speaker that was interrupted with applause after applause after applause,” Tyler said. “And it’s because you have a Democratic Party that is No. 1, as you saw last night, united in its gratitude to President Biden, united in its support for Kamala Harris, and united in their enthusiasm they have for this election because they fundamentally understand the stakes.” The communications director continued to note what he believes “the stakes” are in this presidential election and the “enthusiasm” at the DNC. “So too many people clapping for too long?” Hemmer asked, laughing. “Is that what it was? Are we to buy that? I guess the difference is at the [Republican National Convention], when things went long, they cut things out to make sure the program is tight. That wasn’t the case last night.” “It actually was the case. We had to cut a few elements last night in order to get to the president as quickly as possible so that the American people could see him,” Tyler responded. “We’re obviously going to make our adjustments today to shorten up the schedule to make sure that we can get to our prime-time speaking program as soon as possible. But what you will continue to see, no matter what, is unparalleled enthusiasm.” Former CNN political analyst Chris Cillizza on Monday suggested Biden’s anger is the reason he was planning to depart from the DNC directly for a vacation to California following his speech. He said the president is mad at his party for pushing him to terminate his reelection campaign, noting Biden did not want his half-century political career to end with a speech on “the least desirable night” of the DNC. “I do think it is telling that Joe Biden, after he gives the speech on Monday night, will leave Chicago, not participate in any more of the convention, and go on a vacation in California … It’s hard to get further away, right? … There’s symbolism there, right? He was pushed out,” Cillizza said. “He has spent the last three weeks, or month, watching a person who he did not think was capable of winning this presidency surge on the back of excited Democrats who were very unexcited with Biden. That’s a hard pill to swallow; it just is, and I think it’s OK to acknowledge it.” “Joe Biden is pissed. He wanted his legacy to end differently,” he continued, adding, “But I think it’s really important to note he’s a human being, and what has transpired over the last two months is really, really, really difficult. And the fact that he’s shuttling out of the convention on Monday night after he gives the speech is super, super telling.” Originally published by the Daily Caller News Foundation The post ‘Are We to Buy That?’: Fox News’ Bill Hemmer Confronts Harris Campaign Official About Excuse for Biden’s Late Speech appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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Amid the boringly promotional coverage masquerading as objective recaps on night one of the Democratic National Convention, Tuesday’s CBS Mornings delivered one example of a broadcast network pressing Democrats. Co-host Tony Dokoupil came through as he grilled Democratic National Committee Chairman Jamie Harrison on night one’s logistical nightmares, Kamala Harris’s lack of official policy positions, and Harris avoiding questions from reporters. Dokoupil went right to most recent kerfuffle: “Look, the scheduling ran long. Joe Biden did not give a short speech. Did you learn any lessons about how to do this on night two?”     Of course, Harrison ducked by insisting he was “overjoyed at how night one went” and claimed “part of the reason why we ran a little late is because every single person got rounds of applause for what they were saying.” Dokoupil slightly pivoted to the reality that Democratic Party bosses forced Joe Biden to abandon a second term: The result of those applause moments and going over time was that Joe Biden, the President, sitting President, leader of the party, at this moment, he was outside of prime time and I’m curious, have you spoken to him? How did he feel about his speaking slot? Was he upset that it ran late? Harrison kept it cool, arguing Biden was “overjoyed” and realized “the love that he felt...was just electric”.  Dokoupil really cut to the chase with three hard-hitting questions in a row about Harris hiding from the American public from the standpoints of policy and transparency. First, the lack of policy positions: Part of his legacy is handing the administration over to Kamala Harris, making sure she wins in the fall. We had a CBS News poll recently that found that more than a third of voters don’t know what the Vice President, Kamala Harris, stands for, and you can understand why. This is an unusual year. You’ve got a candidate that everyone is cheering for, and folks don’t yet know all of her positions. How are you going to clear that up? After Harrison replied this is “why you have conventions”, Dokoupil wasn’t amused: “No policy section on the website, it’s been pointed out, she’s done no major press conferences, no major media interviews. Does she need to break that streak as soon as this is over?” Harrison’s death grip on his talking points beget more questions before segueing into a bland turnout question (click “expand”): HARRISON: Well, we know she did do a big policy debrief the other day when she rolled out some aspects of her economic policy, and she’ll continue to do that over the course of the next — the next few weeks, and of course, when she’s here on the stage on Thursday. DOKOUPIL: But is she going to do a big media interview? Is she going to sit down with people? Can I be that person? HARRISON: She’s already said that she’s going to do a big media interview, and we know that she’s going to and it’s going to be fantastic. DOKOUPIL: Okay, I’ll take that as an agreement that she will be appearing on CBS. There is a lot of excitement online for Kamala Harris. How do you take that excitement among younger voters, digital voters, and turn it into real world action showing up on election day? The interview that was otherwise filled with what could be — grading on a curve for network news — hardballs, Dokoupil used the last question to hit a lighter, softer note: [W]e’ve been listening to rehearsals here from our perch in the stands. Beyonce’s songs have come on a couple times. The Washington delegation had Beyonce hats on. There were some cowboy Kamala sashes. I’ll leave the interpretation to all the symbols to other people. But the question, I think that lingers is, will Beyonce herself be in this arena at some point this week? When Harrison wouldn’t say no and only remarked her song “Freedom” was been played aplenty inside the United Center on Monday, this jazzed co-host and Democratic donor Gayle King and fill-in liberal co-hosts Vladimir Duthiers and Jericka Duncan. King in particular gushed: “You know what it sounded like to me? That sounded like a yes. That sounded like a yes to me, Tony. We shall see. We shall see.” To see the relevant CBS transcript from August 20, click “expand.” CBS Mornings August 20, 2024 7:37 a.m. Eastern BIDEN: For 50 years, like many of you, I’ve given my heart and soul to our nation, and I’ve been blessed a million times in return with the support of the American people. DOKOUPIL: That of course, was President Joe Biden last night in a convention speech that was a defense of his record, a love letter to this country and a celebration of Kamala Harris, his choice to lead a new generation of the Democratic Party. Democratic National Committee Chair, Jaime Harrison joins me now for more on last evening. Mr. Chairman, thank you very much for being here. [ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Democratic National Convention; Biden Passes Torch to Harris in DNC Speech] DNC CHAIR JAIME HARRISON: Thank you so much for having me, Tony. DOKOUPIL: I appreciate it. Look, the scheduling ran long. HARRISON: Yes. DOKOUPIL: Joe Biden did not give a short speech. Did you learn any lessons about how to do this on night two? HARRISON: Oh, well, listen, I’m overjoyed at how night one went. I mean, we had, as we said, hit after hit after hit. We had some amazing superstars of our Democratic Party, and then they culminated with the President of the United States and so we’re pleased with how things went. We were overjoyed at the love that Joe Biden got in this arena. And part of the reason why we ran a little late is because every single person got rounds of applause for what they were saying. It is time for us to make sure that we put a line in the sand that we’re fighting for our freedoms and our rights in this country. DOKOUPIL: The result of those applause moments and going over time was that Joe Biden, the President, sitting President, leader of the party, at this moment, he was outside of prime time and I’m curious, have you spoken to him? How did he feel about his speaking slot? Was he upset that it ran late? HARRISON: The President is overjoyed. I got a chance to spend some time with him last night, and he — I think the love that he felt in this room was, you know, it was just electric. It was so important for him to feel that people love him so much, they adore him, and they are — wanted to thank him for his selflessness, the years of service to this great nation and also to our party. DOKOUPIL: Part of his legacy is handing the administration over to Kamala Harris, making sure she wins in the fall. We had a CBS News poll recently that found that more than a third of voters don’t know what the Vice President, Kamala Harris, stands for, and you can understand why. This is an unusual year. You’ve got a candidate that everyone is cheering for, and folks don’t yet know all of her positions. How are you going to clear that up? HARRISON: Well, that’s why you have conventions. It’s three days that we have left and you’re going to hear the story of Kamala Harris — who she is, what she fights for, who she is fighting for, and we’re looking forward to telling that story and I think people got a little — some of the sense last night, and they will continue to get more sense of what that is and what her story is tonight and in the future days. DOKOUPIL: No policy section on the website, it’s been pointed out, she’s done no major press conferences, no major media interviews. Does she need to break that streak as soon as this is over? HARRISON: Well, we know she did do a big policy debrief the other day when she rolled out some aspects of her economic policy, and she’ll continue to do that over the course of the next — the next few weeks, and of course, when she’s here on the stage on Thursday. DOKOUPIL: But is she going to do a big media interview? Is she going to sit down with people? Can I be that person? HARRISON: She’s already said that she’s going to do a big media interview, and we know that she’s going to and it’s going to be fantastic. DOKOUPIL: Okay, I’ll take that as an agreement that she will be appearing on CBS. There is a lot of excitement online for Kamala Harris. How do you take that excitement among younger voters, digital voters, and turn it into real world action showing up on election day? HARRISON: Well, this is where having an infrastructure in the party comes into play. This is the thing that I’m so fortunate — we are so fortunate that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for the last three-and-a-half years have been really working with me to build the infrastructure of the Democratic Party. You know, we, in all of our battleground states, we’ve had people on the ground for well over a year. These are the same people who work the midterms in 2022 and so now, with this rush of new volunteers in one state, I think, in North Carolina, 12,000 new volunteers signing up in the last few weeks. Our party infrastructure can absorb that and utilize that, put people on the grounds, knocking on doors, making phone calls so that we can win this very, very important election. DOKOUPIL: Mr. Chairman, we’ve been listening to rehearsals here from our perch in the stands. Beyonce’s songs have come on a couple times. The Washington delegation had Beyonce hats on. There were some cowboy Kamala sashes. I’ll leave the interpretation to all the symbols to other people. But the question, I think that lingers is, will Beyonce herself be in this arena at some point this week? HARRISON: Well, every day she’s in here singing “Freedom,” so at least we hear it across the intercom. DOKOUPIL: Okay, all right, that’s not a no, Mr. Chairman. Jamie Harrison, thank you very much so much. HARRISON: Thank you so much for having me. DOKOUPIL: Vlad, Gayle, Jericka, I’ll send it back to you on that note, it sounds like a maybe. JERICKA DUNCAN: Yes. DUTHIERS: That’s what it sounded like to us, Tony. KING: You know what it sounded like to me? That sounded like a yes. That sounded like a yes to me, Tony. We shall see. We shall see. DUTHIERS: We will absolutely see. All right, Tony, thank you very much.

MRC founder and president Brent Bozell appeared Tuesday morning on Fox Business’s Varney & Co. to chat with host Stu Varney about the latest MRC study exposing the legacy media’s (ABC, CBS, NBC) insanely distorted coverage of the 2024 campaign.   Varney cued up Bozell to discuss one of the staggering findings: “Brent, your company says 84 percent of Harris’ media coverage has been positive, 89 percent of Trump’s coverage is negative. Clearly, the media is covering up for Harris.” Bozell buttressed the number with how the media are letting Harris get away with a “basement” strategy: “She hasn’t done a press conference in a month now….The answer that she’s given, I think, is for the ages. Where she promised to do an interview by the end of the month. As if somehow that’s sufficient. But what gets me on this is that the media have gone along with it.”     Bozell added that journalists “Are completely at ease with the fact that she is slapping them and saying, ‘I won’t do an interview with anybody.’ Why? They despise Donald Trump….They know that she’s not ready for primetime either. They know why she’s in the basement. They know why she doesn’t want to do interviews, because the American people will be horrified by her positions.”  Bozell then highlighted one of the stunning numbers from MRC’s latest poll: “Seventy-eight percent of Democrats have no idea that Kamala Harris’ position [that] it ought not to be a crime to cross the border illegally. In other words, her position is wide open borders, America should be the world’s parking lot. Seventy-eight percent of Democrats have no idea. What would happen, what would happen, Stuart, if Democrats simply knew that one fact? If the media simply reported that one fact? I can guarantee you that Donald Trump would be up by 20 points.” The following is the full segment as it was aired on the August 20 edition of Fox Business’s Varney & Company:  HOST STU VARNEY: Biden’s farewell speech was pushed back to 11:30 pm Eastern time. He kept talking until well after midnight. Media Research Center president Brent Bozell is with me now. How does this look, a sitting president, pushed out of primetime and having to talk after midnight? How’s that look? L. BRENT BOZELL: Well, if you wanted him inside of primetime, you got him inside of prime time. This was done deliberately. Look, Stuart, people who are wiser than me have pointed out that they knew exactly what was going to happen when Joe Biden debated Donald Trump, which is why they scheduled it early. They knew he was going to mess it up because of his age, and they knew he would get pushed out. It’s those same people who were scared to death of him speaking on primetime television last night. Because, unfortunately, you don’t know what he’s going to say or how he’s going to come across. So that’s why they put him after primetime. They can use any excuse they want to. He’s President of the United States. If the President wants to be inside of primetime, you put him inside of primetime.  VARNEY: Brent, your company says 84 percent of Harris’ media coverage has been positive, 89 percent of Trump’s coverage is negative. Clearly, the media is covering up for Harris. BOZELL: Yeah. Look, there’s so much talk about, on Fox, about the fact that she hasn’t done a press conference in a month now since she came out and announced her presidential campaign. The answer that she’s given, I think, is for the ages. Where she promised to do an interview by the end of the month. As if somehow that’s sufficient. But what gets me on this is that the media have gone along with it. They are completely at ease with the fact that she is slapping them and saying, ‘I won’t do an interview with anybody.’ Why? They despise Donald Trump, and if that’s what it takes — look, they know, they know that she’s not ready for primetime either. They know why she’s in the basement. They know why she doesn’t want to do interviews, because the American people will be horrified by her positions. Which is why there’s — and that’s a separate study that we did on them, where the media have given no coverage to her positions and the public has no idea what her positions are.  Just want to give you one number. If you think about the border, it’s the number two issue in America today. People are worried sick about people pouring over the borders. Seventy-eight percent of Democrats have no idea that Kamala Harris’ position on that is it ought not to be a crime to cross the border illegally. In other words, her position is wide open borders, America should be the world’s parking lot. Seventy-eight percent of Democrats have no idea. What would happen, what would happen, Stuart, if Democrats simply knew that one fact? If the media simply reported that one fact? I can guarantee you that Donald Trump would be up by 20 points.  VARNEY: Do not hold your breath, Brent Bozell. Do not do that because it probably ain’t gonna happen. Brent, thanks for being with us this morning.

Conservative Twitter lit up Tuesday when Gov. Andy Beshear (D-Ky.) popped off on Morning Joe that J.D. Vance has no empathy for women getting abortions after being raped, and we should ”make him go through this.” Vance tweeted over the video that Beshear was a “disgusting person.” Beshear was lecturing on MSNBC that abortion policy is “just so extreme” in states like his, without exceptions for rape, incest, and “non-viable pregnancies.” Mika Brzezinski shot back: “Then on the right, governor, you have -- you have Republican candidates and Republicans talking about babies being aborted at nine months. Can you even make sense of their argument?” He replied: “Half of it is not even true.  It's just fear tactics. And it's just lying to people.” BESHEAR:  I mean, think about what some people have had to go through because of these laws. I mean, J.D. Vance calls pregnancy resulting from rape inconvenient. Like inconvenient is traffic. I mean it is -- make him go through this. I mean -- someone being violated, someone being harmed and then telling them that they don't have options after that. That fails any test of decency, of humanity. But here's the thing. It also shows they don't have any empathy at all. A president and vice president has to have empathy. You have to be able to put yourself in a position you've never been in, to try to understand somebody else. It’s false that Democrats don’t support abortion at any time? The 2020 platform was clear they opposed all restrictions. “Democrats oppose and will fight to overturn federal and state laws that create barriers to reproductive health and rights.” The new 2024 platform is more dodgy: “President Biden, Vice President Harris, and Democrats are committed to restoring the reproductive rights Trump ripped away. With a Democratic Congress, we will pass national legislation to make Roe the law of the land again.” But what does that mean? Journalists should absorb the text of the "Women's Health Protection Act" of 2021:  It is the purpose of this Act— (1) to permit health care providers to provide abortion services without limitations or requirements that single out the provision of abortion services A few hours later, Beshear appeared on MSNBC's  Andrea Mitchell Reports to clarify that he didn't mean what he said, or doubled down on it, saying Vance was "deflecting."  MITCHELL So what he's saying is that you were somehow suggesting -- he said, "What the hell is this?" Why is Andy Beshear -- he tweeted this out. "Wishing that a member of my family would get raped. A disgusting person." How do you respond to that? Is that what you were talking about? BESHEAR: Of course. It's ridiculous. But it's also deflection. J.D. Vance knows that he and Donald Trump are so wrong on this issue. And so he's trying to make himself the victim. Listen, Hadley Duvall was a victim. The women that were on the stage last night. The couple that had to go through a non-viable pregnancy are victims. As a man J.D. Vance will never have to face any of this personally. But it's sad that he lacks the empathy to be able to put himself in a different position and to understand why having exceptions, having reproductive freedom is so important in the first place. Obviously, I'd never wish harm on anyone. It just -- again, deflection. Trying to make himself and Donald Trump the victims.