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Bryan Zepp Jamieson<\/em><\/p>\n

October 1st<\/sup>, 2024<\/em><\/p>\n

On the surface, tonight\u2019s vice-presidential debates harkened back to debates prior to the Trump era. Both candidates were articulate, reasonable-sounding, and civil. If you stripped the content of the debate of all context, they seemed evenly matched. Give Vance credit: he came across as human, a feature he has struggled with since he was nominated.<\/p>\n

But he was badly crippled by the fact that he had to present the general lunacy of Trumpentruths. Thus, he had to spout utter absurdities as \u201cTrump saved the ACA\u201d Really? Nobody remembers Trump\u2019s campaign to repeal it, a drive that was stymied in the final minute by a dramatic midnight thumbs-down gesture by a dying John McCain? Walz, thinking fast, immediately brought up that seven years later, Trump only has a \u201cconcept of a plan\u201d to deal with health care.<\/p>\n

He had to mirror Trump\u2019s waffling on the issue of bodily autonomy. So he had to simultaneously pretend that Trump ended abortion while saying that the public wanted the states to determine a woman\u2019s right to abortion. Walz parried it beautifully, noting that fundamental rights should not be subject to geography. It was the perfect response to the GOP pretense that it\u2019s a states\u2019 rights issue: the constitution supersedes states in the matter of establishing rights, and no state may suborn a national civil right.<\/p>\n

On health care, in addition to the ACA blunder, Vance tried to argue that costs of health care needed to be distributed, and not the sole domain of government. He managed to say it in such a way that he wasn\u2019t saying people should depend on churches for health care.<\/p>\n

Vance had to evade answering the yes-no-no question, \u201cIs the climate changing?\u201d His response went, \u201cOne of the things that I\u2019ve noticed some of our Democratic friends talking a lot about is a concern about carbon emissions, this idea that carbon emissions drives all the climate change \u2026 let\u2019s just say that\u2019s true, just for the sake of argument.\u201d He fluffed the question, saying that the all-powerful Harris should have reduced pollution by bringing manufacturing jobs back to the US, saying (falsely) that the US has the cleanest economy in the world. He claimed, again falsely, that solar panels are all made in China, although when pressed, he muttered that the parts that go into solar panels were made there. Under Biden, of course, manufacturing jobs have been returning to the US (Harris may have supported him, doubtlessly did, but vice presidents don\u2019t have any particular authority on this). He tried saying that Trump did not consider climate change despite the fact that Trump is on record, repeatedly, for making that very claim.<\/p>\n

Vance had to bash immigrants since that\u2019s the centerpiece of Trump\u2019s Naziesque hate campaign. He tried blaming immigrants for the high cost of housing, but had to back off when Walz noted that immigration was dropping. I would have noted that few immigrants are financially able to buy a home.<\/p>\n

Confronted with the fruits of his hate campaign against Springfield, Ohio, he tried saying that the only reason they were there was because Harris (apparently the most powerful vice president in history) let them in under a special refugee law. They did in fact enter under such a law\u2014one signed by Donald Trump. Oh, and at the invitation of Springfield, which needed labor.<\/p>\n

Finally, and this was where Vance successfully knocked himself out, he tried the pretense that Trump did not want to overturn the 2020 election, and wanted only a peaceful protest at the Capitol on January 6th<\/sup>, 2021. He couldn\u2019t handle the question that he had stated that if he had been vice president instead of Mike Pence, he would have rejected the electoral vote citing \u201cquestions\u201d and thrown it to Congress. (In the event of a legitimate tie in the electoral college, Congress could vote on who won. And it isn\u2019t a straight up-and-down vote: each state gets one vote, and in 2021, the outgoing Congress had a majority representation in 27 states. They might have overturned the election had Mike Pence not done his job.)<\/p>\n

A lot of people have said that Trump made a poor choice when he selected JD Vance as his running mate. But watching him squirm and battle to toe the party line, the absurd Trumpentruths that have turned the GOP into an anti-American and savage cult, I think it wasn\u2019t Trump who made the bad choice for a running mate. It was JD Vance who made the poor choice for a running mate.<\/p>\n

Vice Presidential debates rarely shift votes, and it\u2019s unlikely this one did. Walz won, both on presentation and debate points. It wasn\u2019t the utter carnage of the first two presidential debates, and won\u2019t get a lot of attention.<\/p>\n

But watching Vance, and how slick and mentally agile he was, I realized how fantastically dangerous this soulless man would be if he elects to run in 2028, armed with his own Trumpentruths.<\/p>\n

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