Though the Tuesday, October 1 Vice Presidential debate between Senator and 2024 Trump running mate JD Vance and Minnesota Governor and 2024 Kamala Harris running mate Tim Walz was mainly noted for the poor behavior of the moderators, Sen. Vance also took the opportunity to get in a few good jabs at Gov. Walz, including one about “family separation.”
One of those jabs had to do with freedom of speech. Sen. Vance backed Gov. Walz into a corner on the issue of whether freedom of speech should be secure or if things like “misinformation” and “hate speech” should be censored by the government. Gov. Walz didn’t give much of an answer other than looking like he was about to break down and yelling about it supposedly being illegal to yell “fire” in a crowded theater, a line from a since-overturned SCOTUS ruling.
Another great Sen. Vance moment came when he was questioned about the deportation plans of a potential Trump-Vance Administration, and how such a policy would work, particularly as regards families where the parents are here illegally and the children are citizens because they were born here.
That came when CBS co-moderator Margaret Brennan asked Vance, “Senator Vance, your campaign is pledging to carry out the largest mass deportation plan in American history and to use the U.S. military to do so. Could you be more specific about exactly how this will work, for example, would you deport parents who have entered the U.S. illegally and separate them from any of their children who were born on U.S. soil?”
Firing back, Sen. Vance sounded off on the children caught trying to cross the border, alleging that many of them have been “effectively lost” by DHS. He said, “We have 320,000 children that the Department of Homeland Security has effectively lost. Some of them have been sex trafficked. Some of them hopefully are at home with their families. Some of them have been used as drug trafficking mules.”
He then slammed the situation at the US-Mexico border and all the tragedy that occurs at it, arguing that the “real family separation” policy is that wide open border, and all that occurs at it. Vance then again slammed Kamala, arguing that if she was a real leader, she would admit that this administration’s border policies have been huge failures and that she will change tack.
Saying as much, Vance first pointed to the tragedy at the Biden-Harris Administration’s open border, saying, “The real family separation policy in this country is, unfortunately, Kamala Harris’s wide open southern border, and I’d ask my Americans to remember when she came into office, she said she was going to do this.”
Continuing, he noted that, were Kamala made of leadership material, she would admit what has happened has been a disaster and announce a change of tack. He said, “Real leadership would be saying, ‘You know what, I screwed up. We’re going to go back to Donald Trump’s border policies.’ I wish that she would do that. It would be good for all of us.” Watch him here:
Sen. Vance, torching the state of the border at the beginning of September, said, “They stopped deportations on Day One. They stopped construction of the border wall on Day One…They reinstated catch-and-release and they stopped Remain-in-Mexico…these policies cause real human beings to suffer.”
In a post after the debate, he said, commenting on the state of the border, “Last night was fun! Remember: Kamala Harris has been in power for the last 3.5 years. She opened the border. She cast the deciding vote on trillions in new spending. The border and affordability crisis is on her. Donald Trump, by contrast, governed with common sense.”
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