Sen. JD Vance, Trump’s running mate, dodged when asked whether he thinks there will be a second debate between the former president and Harris during an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” this morning.
“Is there going to be a second debate? I think it’s an interesting question,” he said. “It’s telling to me that while some pundits walked away from the debate and said Kamala Harris did great, the actual undecided voters appear to think that Donald Trump did better.”
Vance reiterated Trump’s argument that Harris’ call for a second debate against the former president means that she admitted defeat in the debate.
“It’s telling that immediately after the debate, Kamala Harris came out and said, ‘Yes, I’d like to do another debate,’” he said. “If you think things went so well, you’re normally not asking for a rematch right away. Like when a boxing match happens, the guy who loses is typically the one who’s immediately asking for a rematch.”
Asked whether he had any frustrations with what Trump focused on during the debate, Vance said that the former president’s closing statement was “a critical piece of the debate” because he had the chance to go after Harris’ record in the White House.
“He drove home the entire message up to that point, which is Kamala Harris says she wants to do all these great things. Kamala Harris is currently the vice president of the United States. Why isn’t she doing it now?” he said, adding that he thinks “a lot of her economic policies are insane.”
Vance also slammed the questioning of the moderators of the presidential debate hosted by ABC, saying that they “asked more about ridiculous lies” about Trump rather than questions related to the economy.
Pressed about a recent Goldman Sachs report showing that immigration brings positive aspects to the jobs market, Vance pivoted to attacking Harris’ record on immigration by accusing Haitians in Springfield, Ohio — the center of a baseless allegation that Trump has pushed about Haitian immigrants in Ohio eating pets — of driving up housing costs and communicable diseases.
“Wall Street has said that the way to create prosperity in this country is to flood the country with cheap labor and off source our manufacturing to places like China, which use cheap slave labor,” he said. “What that’s actually led to is communities like Springfield, Ohio, where you have 20,000 Haitians who have come in. Housing costs are unaffordable. Communicable diseases are on the rise, and people can’t afford to live a good life in this Ohio town.”
“If the path to prosperity was flooding your nation with low wage immigrants, then Springfield, Ohio, would be the most prosperous country and the prosperous city in the world,” he added.
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