The only debate between 2024 vice presidential candidates has ended. Here are five key takeaways from the CBS debate. By the way, this discussion did not include any mention of: LGBTQ+ Problem.
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JD Vance denies January 6th.
Democratic Minnesota Governor Tim Walz pointed out that President Trump has repeatedly denied losing the 2020 election and that 140 police officers were beaten at the Capitol that day. “To deny what happened on January 6th is the first time in American history that a president or anyone tried to overturn a fair election and a peaceful transfer of power. And four years later, we’re in the same boat. “We’re doing it,” Walz said. . President Trump is already laying the groundwork to jail his political opponents.
Vance also criticized the election results after Hillary Clinton, who lost to Trump in 2016, complained that Russians were buying misleading ads on Facebook to disparage her. The question is not strictly a Republican issue, he said. Walz countered that “January 6th was not a Facebook ad,” and accused Vance of being a “historical revisionist.”
More denial, this time about health care.
President Trump has been heavily criticized for saying during a presidential debate with Kamala Harris that he “has an idea for a plan” to replace the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. When asked about this, Vance said, “I’m not going to propose a 900-page bill on the debate floor.” He claimed that President Trump “restored Obamacare” as president, when in reality he tried and failed to repeal Obamacare.
The “planning concept” comment pissed me off as a fourth-grade teacher because the kids never taught me that, Walz said. He noted that coverage for pre-existing conditions would be lost if the ACA were repealed. “Kamala Harris will protect and strengthen the ACA,” he said.
Vance said any Trump plan would maintain coverage for pre-existing conditions, and there is legislation in place to do so. That law is the ACA.
For Vance, raising children is primarily a women’s issue, an exclusive perspective.
Asked about the availability and affordability of child care, Vance said, “Being a working mother is very difficult, even for someone as privileged as my wife.” “Many young women want to go back to work straight away, but some want to spend some time at home with their children, and some want to stay home with their children for longer. He said any government policy should support choices in child care, such as having churches or neighborhood groups provide child care, which is not funded by federal block grants. , he said.
Host Margaret Brennan asked Vance about President Trump’s comments that child care is relatively inexpensive, which is not true. Vance said economic growth under the Trump administration will generate enough revenue to ensure resources are available for child care.
Walz said he expects Harris’ proposal for a $5,000 child tax credit to pass in Congress and supports paid family leave.
Although Mr. Vance has talked about helping women with unwanted pregnancies, his party has shown little desire to do so.
“My fellow members of our party, we must do more to earn the trust of the American people,” Vance said after referring to a friend who had an abortion after being in an abusive relationship. “As Republicans, we want to be pro-family in the fullest sense of the word. I want to support infertility treatment. I want mothers to be able to afford to have babies, and young families to buy homes.” We want to have more leeway. …There’s a lot we can do in terms of public policy to give women more options.”But Republicans want to give women, men and families more options. have often opposed policies that would give them more support.
Vance also said the appropriate way to address the abortion issue is to let each state set its own abortion policy. But Walz noted that since the national policy was reversed, women have died in the state due to lack of access to abortions. Roe v. Wade. “How can we, the people, say that our lives and rights as basic as the right to control our own bodies are determined by geography?” he said. “If Amber Thurman lived in Minnesota, she would still be alive today.” Thurman, who lived in Georgia, died when she had to go to North Carolina to get an abortion. Minnesota has created the following conditions egg Incorporated into state law.
Vance denied ever supporting a national abortion ban, pointing out that Ohio codified abortion rights through a referendum.
Vance blames everything on illegal immigrants, or as he likes to call them, “illegal aliens.”
Gun violence? Vance said that’s because weapons are flowing across the southern border along with illegal immigrants. However, most guns used in mass shootings are legally obtained. Is there a shortage of affordable housing? That’s because “we brought in millions of illegal immigrants to compete with Americans for the few available housing units,” he says. He also brought up Springfield, Ohio, where the Haitian immigrants he and Trump have demonized live here legally and they don’t eat dogs or cats.
Mr. Waltz replied: “Look, this problem of keeping bringing this up and not addressing it and blaming it all on immigrants. On housing, let’s talk a little bit about how Wall Street speculators are buying up homes and driving down home prices. You could do that, but that would be an accusation.”
He also urged Republicans to repeal the bipartisan bill pending in Congress that would strengthen border security and speed up asylum applications, saying he wants to make immigration a campaign issue. He pointed out that he had given instructions.
Bonus point: Recommendations.
Walz emphasized that Harris has received a wide range of support, “from Bernie Sanders to Dick Cheney to Taylor Swift and many people in between.” Vance, on the other hand, is a member of conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a “lifelong leader of the Democratic Union,” and a former congressman who left the Democratic Party and offended many with his anti-LGBTQ+ comments. He mentioned support for Trump by Tulsi Gabbard and others.
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