Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) at the vice presidential debate at CBS Studios on Oct. 1, 2024, in New York City. (Ricky Carioti / The Washington Post via Getty Images) |
By Roxanne Szal | Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz faced Sen. JD Vance of Ohio Tuesday night at the vice presidential debate, and day-after results are showing more or less a toss-up on who won among pundits. The two candidates were grilled by CBS Evening News anchor and managing editor Norah O’Donnell and Face the Nation moderator and chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Brennan, on a wide range of topics, including climate change, gun control, immigration and the housing shortage. (Read a full transcript.)
Admittedly, Vance sounded coherent and slick. But much of what he said—especially on abortion, IVF and childcare—were lies, engineered for women to let their guards down and to distance himself from his extreme views, most of which are ripped right from Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership.
Project 2025 polls terribly, even among Republican voters, so the entire party is trying to downplay the now-toxic document. But in reality, the framers and masterminds of Project 2025—a project of the right-wing Heritage Foundation that calls for abortion surveillance, “biblically based marriages” and a nationwide ban on the abortion pill mifepristone—have close personal ties with Vance.
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