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'Damning non-answer': Tim Walz busts J.D. Vance for refusing to say Trump lost in 2020

Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) called out Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) for what he called a "damning non-answer" when asked who won the 2020 presidential election.

During the only vice presidential debate of 2024, Vance deflected questions about the Capitol riot that former President Donald Trump incited on Jan. 6, 2021.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene blames historic flooding on 'climate change' — with a racial spin

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) seemed to blame "climate change" for historic flooding in Georgia and North Carolina in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.

During a Tuesday town hall event in Murray, Georgia, Greene complained that her Democratic colleagues wanted to allow additional immigrants to enter the United States.

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'Worst line in any 2024 debate': Walz stuns as he says he's ‘friends with school shooters'

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz left many viewers of Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate questioning if they heard him correctly when he said he’s “become friends with school shooters” — a statement that prompted immediate backlash from the father of a shooting victim and others.

“Walz became friends with school shooters?” right-wing talk radio host Megyn Kelly posed to her followers on X.

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'Not true!' Walz tells Vance to 'mind your own business' after false abortion claim

Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz advised Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) to mind his "own business" after the Republican vice presidential nominee made false claims about late-term abortions.

During Tuesday night's vice presidential debate, Walz said that banning abortion rights would have drastic consequences.

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Walz pressed at debate on old claim after downplaying he's ‘a knucklehead at times’

Pressed by moderator Margaret Brennan during Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate, Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) admitted he misspoke about where he traveled to during the Tiananmen protests, even suggesting, “I’m a knucklehead at times.”

“I have poured my heart into my community, I’ve tried to do the best I can, but I’ve not been perfect and I’m a knucklehead at times,” he told Brennan, moderator of "Face The Nation" and a chief foreign affairs correspondent.

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Tim Walz hits J.D. Vance for 'vilifying' Haitians: 'There's consequences for this'

Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) called out Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) for false claims about Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio.

During Tuesday's 2024 vice presidential debate, Walz explained why many Americans support former President Donald Trump's mass deportation policy.

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'Extremely biased anchors!' Trump melts down on Truth Social over vice presidential debate

As Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) and Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) took the stage for the CBS-moderated vice-presidential debate, former President Donald Trump watched and raged at how things went.

One of Trump's first reactions was to attack Margaret Brennan and Norah O'Donnell, the moderators of the debate, who at various points — despite CBS' policy of avoiding direct fact-checks of candidates — were forced to correct and silence the candidates at various points.

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‘Your mics are cut’: Moderators forced to mute Vance and Walz

Both vice presidential candidates found their microphones cut less than half an hour into Tuesday night’s first and only debate between Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) and Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) during a tense exchange about immigration – that also included both CBS moderators.

“The rules were that you guys weren’t gonna fact check and since you’re fact checking me I think it’s important to say what’s actually going on,” Vance said when refusing to move on after moderator Margaret Brennan clarified for viewers that Springfield, Ohio, “does have a large number of Haitian migrants that have legal status, temporary protective status.”

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'Revisionist history': Walz comes out swinging at Trump calling troop injuries 'headaches'

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz came out swinging at the vice presidential debate with an attack on former President Donald Trump's dismissal of injured U.S. troops made earlier in the day.

Trump, when confronted about an Iranian strike on a U.S. military installation on his watch, said that over 100 servicemembers who suffered traumatic brain injury "had a headache." During a question on Iran's new attacks on Israel, where Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance tried to blame the Biden administration, Walz brought up Trump's inability to even care about the harm he caused troops.

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J.D. Vance debate surrogate won't say if she wants Trump to be her 'protector'

Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL), a surrogate for Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance, deflected Tuesday when asked about former President Donald Trump's promise to be the "protector" of women.

Ahead of Tuesday night's vice presidential debate, Britt spoke to CNN host Dana Bash about the "gender gap" between Republicans and Democrats.

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Trump appears to confuse Iranian and North Korean leaders in campaign rant

Former President Donald Trump appeared to confuse the leaders of Iran and North Korea during a campaign stop in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Tuesday, in footage posted to X.

Trump made the remarks during a stream-of-consciousness rant that began with bragging about his crowd size — an issue Trump has been increasingly sore about as his rallies have shrunk in size and Vice President Kamala Harris has called attention to videos of his supporters bailing on his speeches halfway through.

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'They are coming after me!' Ted Cruz issues desperate plea for help in re-election bid

What is going on in Texas’ tightening Senate race is exactly what Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) would like to know after conceding Tuesday night that he is “getting swamped” in his reelection battle – “if they take me out, they take the entire country.”

“There's no doubt Texas is a battleground today,” Cruz said during a Newsmax interview Tuesday where he pleaded for help from viewers. “I need your help, please go to TedCruz.org, TedCruz.org and contribute because we are getting swamped by Chuck Schumer and George Soros, and as I said, they have put a bullseye on the state of Texas.”

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'They had a headache': Trump dismisses brain injuries of U.S. soldiers from Iran strike

Former President Donald Trump dismissed the injuries of U.S. soldiers who were caught in a 2020 missile attack by Iran on an American military installation, while he fielded questions from reporters at his latest campaign event in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Earlier in the day, the former president reacted to the news of strikes on Israel by Iran, by claiming that nothing of the sort could have happened if he were still in office.

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