Opinion: How Tim Walz Failed to Reveal the Real JD Vance During VP Debate
The first and only vice presidential debate made one thing clear: Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz is a nice guy. But sometimes nice guys have to bring out the knives–and Walz failed to do that.
Walz’s Republican vice presidential opponent, JD Vance, is a dangerous man. He lies through his teeth. In the debate he repeatedly obfuscated, dodged, and flat-out fabricated answers, refusing to acknowledge, for example, that he said he would have refused to certify the 2020 election, that he supported a national abortion ban, and that he knowingly spread a false story about Haitian immigrants eating people’s pets in an Ohio town. He wouldn’t even admit that Trump lost in 2020.
Vance changes his stated positions with the political winds; he is a man who wants power so badly that he is willing to join the ticket of a candidate he once compared to Hitler. If Trump loses for a second time, Vance may simply refuse to admit it and may be very willing to take American democracy down with him.