'Most clarifying moment': MSNBC's Morning Joe shocked by one J.D. Vance answer

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough was impressed by J.D. Vance's performance in the vice presidential debate, at least until he may have disqualified himself with many voters.

The "Morning Joe" host said Donald Trump must be seething with envy at his running mate's performance against Tim Walz, because he came across as smoother and more prepared than Trump did in his own debate against Kamala Harris, but Scarborough was gobsmacked by Vance's answer about the 2020 election.

"J.D. Vance is better at this than Donald Trump, it's not even a close call," Scarborough said. "He's smoother – if you want to say a smooth liar, you can, but Donald Trump, he's getting old. They're not even letting him do '60 Minutes' because they know he is not capable of doing it, because he can't answer policy questions. But, still, J.D. Vance was stylistically better. He told a lot of lies about [the Affordable Care Act] and other issues, but I will say this, J.D. Vance was very clarifying at the end of this debate."

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Vance refused to acknowledge that Trump lost the 2020 election, even when Walz asked him directly, and the Democrat called out his "damning non-answer" when the Republican said he was "focused on the future."

"He told viewers everywhere that was watching [that] if you hate American democracy when things don't go your way, vote for me," Scarborough said. "If you hate everything that James Madison put together and Alexander Hamilton put together in the Constitution, if you hate the tradition of peaceful transition, that really, really define an ensure American democracy. [If] you hate that if Donald Trump doesn't win every election, vote for me."

"It was one of the most clarifying moments in any presidential or vice presidential debate we could ever see, because he clearly said he was going to continue the lies of Donald Trump and and not even answer the basic question: Did Joe Biden win the 2020 election?" Scarborough added. "Yes, that will work very well for a lot of hard right people on the internet and maybe on X and other social media platforms, but he defined himself. He defined his campaign, and he defined the choice in this election."

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