'Did they not vet this guy?' Ex-lawmaker stunned by newly unearthed J.D. Vance faceplant

Reacting to a newly unearthed clip of Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) again attacking childless people and calling them "sociopaths," MSNBC "Morning Joe" regular ex-Sen. Clare McCaskill (D-MO) questioned if anyone on Donald Trump's campaign did any work at all before he was chosen to be the former president's running mate.

After watching a clip of Vance on a 2020 podcast tell host Chris Buskirk, "I worry that it makes people more sociopathic and ultimately our whole country a little bit less, less mentally stable. And of course, you talk about going on Twitter. Final point I’ll make is you go on Twitter and almost always the people who are most deranged and most psychotic are people who don’t have kids at home,” McCaskill was incredulous.

After a statement from Vance's spokesperson was read that claimed, "The left wing media have twisted Senator Vance's words and spun up a false narrative about his position on the issues," McCaskill blurted, "He's really made a mess of this, and his spokesperson, I mean, give me a break. We all heard him say it."

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"It will move voters, and he cannot run from these comments, he's said it over — it's what he really believes," she continued. "So the question is: did they not vet this guy? Did they not know that part of his ethos is if you don't have children, you're less than the rest of America? It's really bizarre to me."

"No question that part of this is a product of the way Trump built out the VP process where he wanted to save it to the last minute and have the suspense," fill-in host Jonathan Lemire interjected. "And, yes, the campaign says that there was vetting done of all the leading candidates, but clearly, clearly not enough, or they found these comments and agreed with them."

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