‘There is no lie too big’ for Trump and Vance, Andy Beshear says

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear came out swinging against the former president and his current running mate when he said on ABC’s “This Week” that “there is no lie too big for Donald Trump and JD Vance,” referring to their refusal to acknowledge that Trump lost the 2020 election.

“I mean, when you ask [Vance] about the last election, all you're asking him to do is admit reality,” Beshear, a Democrat, told “This Week” host Martha Raddatz on Sunday. “And we deserve to have a Vice President who believes in democracy and can say, yes, Donald Trump lost the last election, and now we're running in this election.”

Beshear appeared on “This Week” just moments after an appearance by Vance himself, where Raddatz questioned him repeatedly about whether or not Trump lost the 2020 election.

Vance’s responses echoed what he said during the vice presidential debate , and multiple times after, when asked the same question.

"I've said repeatedly, I think the 2020 election had problems. You want to say rigged, you want to say he won, use whatever vocabulary term you want,” Vance told Raddatz, adding that he wants “to focus on the fact that we had big technology firms censoring our fellow citizens in a way that violated our fundamental rights.”

This censorship is in reference to independent studies that have — Vance has said — suggested affected the vote.

Adding to his critique of intentionally spreading misinformation, Beshear also slammed Trump and Vance for lying about FEMA’s disaster response during Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton.

“In Kentucky, we went through our worst tornado disaster and our worst flood disaster in our history, and I didn't have to deal with any of the shenanigans that Donald Trump is putting out right now, and these lies can hurt people,” Beshear said, presumably referencing the lethal tornadoes that hit his state in May.

“I mean, the line that $750 is all that's available,” he said. “That means that individual might not apply for the $40,000-plus in individual assistance.” ($750 is the initial money given to those affected to help with immediate needs.)

He continued: “If you truly care about the people that are harmed more than yourself, you wouldn't politicize this. You wouldn't be putting out all this misinformation. As somebody who has led through national disasters, it hurts."

When asked why the race appears so tight despite the lies, and the record-breaking amount of money raised for Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign, Beshear blamed heightened partisanship.

“It's something that I hope after this election that the Vice President can move us beyond, that she can remind us that this isn't supposed to be an us versus them, that Donald Trump seems to do in everything that he's about,” he said. “She can remind us that we are all Americans first, and Democrats, Republicans, and independents, second, third, or fourth.”