JD Vance dodged questions about Jan. 6 and claimed social media censorship was "a bigger threat to democracy" than anything in the past 40 years in his debate with Tim Walz.

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Toward the end of the debate, Democratic vice presidential candidate Gov. Tim Walz asked Vance to affirm that Trump lost the last election. “Did he lose the 2020 election?” Walz asked.

“Tim, I’m focused on the future,” Vance replied, before pivoting to press Walz on censorship on social media.

“That is a damning non-answer,” Walz said. “I’m pretty shocked by this. He lost the election. This is not a debate, it’s not anything anywhere other than in Donald Trump’s world.”

Walz noted that the reason that former Vice President Mike Pence — who was the target of “hang Mike Pence” chants from pro-Trump rioters who invaded the Capitol in 2021 — wasn’t on the debate stage is because he refused to overturn the election on Trump’s behalf.

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    • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
      231·
      2 months ago

      Vance, and everyone guy that goes along with him, are just one conversation away from being literal cucks.

      Trump is going to fuck Vance’s couch, and I’m not going to feel bad for him.

  • Chespirito@lemmy.world
    111·
    2 months ago

    What a sleazy person he is. He’s well spoken so his answers seem coherent but if you actually listened to him speak you would pick up that he would say half truths at best. At least he gave the people a presidential debate unlike his boss

    • Flying_Hellfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      2 months ago

      I don’t know if you watched the debate, but his little smirks to the camera after some of his comments were making me ill.

  • Cargon@lemmy.ml
    92·
    2 months ago

    Vance was definitely the kid in grade school that plucked and ate the hair of the girl who sat in front of him. I wonder if she’s okay.

  • ansiz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    2 months ago

    The biggest takeaway for me is that all the good sounds bites are going to be Vance sticking his foot in his mouth. Vance had a bunch of safe and boring answers so nothing for Trump’s base, who already dislike Vance. Walz was probably nervous but he definitely missed several chances to call things out.

  • JaggedRobotPubes@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    2 months ago

    And he refused to weigh in on the divisive issue of whether the sky was up or down. Or if water is good for you.

  • IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    2 months ago

    This should be disqualifying but Trump has fucked this country so badly that there are plenty of voters that can’t see how big of a deal it is that a VP pick can’t even say if a candidate lost the previous election or not.

    • Cheems@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 months ago

      If he thinks that he was actually in power this entire time he shouldn’t be able to run for a third term