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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  • IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    27 days 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·
      27 days ago

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