‘My Hillbilly Cousins Did Not Go to Yale’ [Video]

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, who is reportedly among those being considered by Vice President Kamala Harris to be her running mate, had strong words for his potential counterpart, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH).

Former President Donald Trump tapped Vance as his running mate earlier this month. The senator had a career in venture capital before writing the bestseller, Hillbilly Elegy, in which he chronicled his childhood.

Appearing on MSNBC on Thursday night, Walz was asked to react to Vance’s career and political views.

“What is he missing about small-town, rural America?” Jen Psaki inquired. “And what is he getting wrong as he talks about it out there?”

“Pretty much everything,” the governor responded. “And he profited off it. I’ll start out with– he misreads this – in Hillbilly Elegy about there’s some type of cultural angst or whatever. No, we’re angry because rubber barons like him gutted middle America. They took our jobs.”

Walzlater …