https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/tim-walz-dnc-keynote-speech-nomination/story?id=113035139
In the vice-presidential debate, Tim Walz got it exactly right when he countered Vance on abortion access. Vance tried to argue that a state-by-state matrix of abortion laws is the ideal approach for the United States.
Walz flatly stated abortion is a “basic right” for a woman and should not be determined “by geography.”
“This is a very simple proposition: These are women’s decisions,” Walz said. “We trust women. We trust doctors.”
Vance lied his way through their debate, apparently relying on the fact that CBS had a, wait for it, QR code to check whether the candidate’s statements were factual. That was a joke. Who can make those squiggly boxes work, anyway? As Rachel Maddow pointed out after the debate, she has lots of photos of QR boxes. (You are not supposed to take the picture just let the site upload. I only know this because I have adult sons.)
But finally, the moderators couldn’t stand Vance’s lying any more.
“And just to clarify for our viewers, Springfield, Ohio does have a large number of Haitian migrants who have legal status, temporary protected status,” moderator Margaret Brennan said.
Vance spoke up to complain about the fact check.
“Margaret, the rules were that you were not going to fact check and since you’re fact-checking me, I think it’s important to say what’s actually going on,” he protested.
Margaret, not Ms. Brennan?
Finally, the moderators cut the mikes as Vance wouldn’t stop whining.
The worst part for me, and I even expected it, was to see JD Vance gaslighting women during a vice-presidential debate.
Vance reminded me of the Yale guys I’d encounter at mixers when I went to Smith. It was that smirking, the ‘I know better than you, little girl” expression that made me cover my drink with my hand and go stand with women friends.
It was clear Vance’s goal was to appear more moderate during the debate, especially on abortion. He didn’t exactly succeed. A half-smile, a nod and he then acknowledged the complexity of the issue. What matters is that Vance continues to support a national ban on abortion after 15 weeks, a position far removed from the typical pro-choice argument. He has voiced support of the overturning of Roe v. Wade, a decision that that sparked nationwide outrage.
Slamming Trump for calling the overturning of Roe v. Wade “a beautiful thing,” Walz told the stories of several women threatened by restrictive state abortion laws.
“Amanda Zurawski would disagree with you on it’s a beautiful thing,” Walz said. “Or in Kentucky, Hadley Duvall, a 12-year-old child raped and impregnated by her stepfather. Those are horrific.”
“If you don’t know Amanda or a Hadley, you soon will,” Walz said. He then warned of proposals in Project 2025, the conservative policy plan linked to Trump and Vance.
“Project 2025 is going to have a registry of pregnancies. It’s going to make it more difficult, if not impossible, to get contraception and limit access, if not eliminate access, to infertility treatments.”
Vance gave his patented ‘oh that’s so terrible look.’ Classic gaslighting.
But Walz is right to bring up the fact that Trump and Vance want the government to own women’s bodies.
I am outraged by that and doing everything I can think of to make sure Harris and Walz are elected.
Vote.