Scott Jennings Torches Tim Walz Over ‘Weird’ JD Vance-Yale Attack — And Van Jones Agrees

Conservative CNN commentator Scott Jennings ripped Democratic vice presidential nominee Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) over his attack on his Republican counterpart, Senator JD Vance (R-OH), for attending Yale University on Wednesday, even getting his liberal colleague Van Jones to agree with him.

“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,” said Walz at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday. Vance went to Yale Law School after serving in the Marine Corps and attending Ohio State University.

It’s not the first time Walz has targeted Vance over his education. In an appearance on MSNBC last month, Walz remarked that “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.”

“Something he [Walz] does that is so weird to me: The constant attacks on JD Vance for going to Yale. I don’t understand this,” said Jennings after Walz delivered his speech at the DNC Wednesday. “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 JD 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.”

“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?'” he continued.

“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,” agreed Jones, who went on to argue that Republicans were nevertheless losing “the babysitter contest.”

“Whose values do you want to be in charge of the plane before we get where we’re going? And I think, and I think you’re getting smoked on that,”  he concluded.

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