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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  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
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    4 days ago

    The dumb part here is that the American people and the American political environment and media has normalized all this.

    This is no longer about dumb politicians … it’s just putting on display a very dumb nation.

    • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      4 days ago

      Politics has always been theater. And not the good kind with songs and dancing. The boring kind that is incredibly easy to see through while being simultaneously impossible to ignore.