Governor Tim Walz seemed to stumble during the vice presidential candidate debate, confusing Israel and Iran. 

'Nervous As Hell': Bewildered Walz Emerges From Media Quarantine Only To Get Shelled By Vance

If there’s one thing you can count on, it’s Washington, D.C. politicians not following the will of the people. That’s not the way, of course, the Founders hoped it would work—but as all of us know, it is what too often happens. But why? The Daily Signal’s politics editor, Bradley Devlin, is launching a new show, “The Signal Sitdown,” this Thursday. Devlin, who joined us from The American Conservative, understands that the American people deserve answers, not excuses and obfuscation, from Washington. Every Thursday, Devlin will be getting those answers on “The Signal Sitdown.” He’ll interview lawmakers and other movers and shakers—people who understand the D.C. swamp and how to take it down. “‘The Signal Sitdown’ will take you inside the biggest battles in Washington, D.C., as they happen. We’ll analyze the policymaking process from an unabashedly and unapologetically conservative perspective and together reclaim government from the self-serving elite,” Devlin says. The first show airs this Thursday, and features Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis. Watch or listen on your favorite platform. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to be notified when the first show airs Thursday. The post A New Show to Expose Washington appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Network news media outlets continue to offer obvious home field advantages to Democrats in this year’s election debates, as they have for as long as I’ve observed politics. But Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, delivered a masterclass in how to deal with biased moderators in his vice-presidential showdown with Democrat Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Tuesday night. Not only did Vance handle obviously skewed questions, but he refused to allow the moderators—“CBS Evening News” anchor Norah O’Donnell and “Face the Nation” chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Brennan—live “fact check” him without calling them out on it. More on that in a bit. There’s no doubt that the NBC moderators of Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate were nearly as biased as the CBS moderators in the September presidential debate. Their questions were mostly cherry-picked to be more of interest to a left-leaning audience, and they clearly steered the discussion toward topics to benefit Democrats. Climate change is a bottom tier issue in poll after poll for the American people but is super important to a narrow band of highly engaged liberals. So, we get a climate change question in every single debate, while somehow issues like the threat of Communist China seemingly never come up. This kind of bias has been a problem for a very long time, though the media is far more shameless than they used to be. Long ago, CNN host Candy Crowley actually apologized for live fact-checking Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in the 2012 election. A lot has changed since then. They don’t just ask biased questions these days; they now actively participate in the debate to help whatever Democrat is on stage. There was a funny moment, at least to me, when Vance pushed Walz on a Minnesota law that allowed babies to be killed after a botched abortion. It was a law that he signed. Walz didn’t and seemingly couldn’t answer the question. Instead, he just pointed to the moderators and said that they “fact checked” it last time. He clearly wanted the “moderators” to step in and help. They didn’t deliver the life preserver this time, but it’s understandable why Walz thought they would. Presidential and vice-presidential debates shouldn’t be like this. The media should be letting politicians speak for themselves. But it appears that the network channels can’t help themselves. To a certain extent Republicans are in a tough spot. It’s clear that Democrats are simply unwilling to have a debate that isn’t on their home field at this point. And having no presidential and vice-presidential debates at all—especially given that Walz and Vice President Kamala Harris so rarely have to answer tough questions—would be bad for the country. Given this challenging environment, Vance did a remarkable job of staying on message, answering questions seriously—but on his terms, and delivering clear, logical answers to every question. And when the two moderators became obnoxious about interjecting and live fact-checking (even though NBC said they wouldn’t), Vance didn’t just let it go. Trump said after the ABC debate that he regretted not going after the biased moderators, and Vance seemed to have learned from that. When Brennen tried to interject with a comment about Haitians and Springfield before moving on to the next question, Vance stopped her. She tried to cut him off with a “we just don’t time with all these questions to allow you to respond,” but Vance wasn’t having it. “Margaret, the rules were that you guys weren’t going to fact check, and since you are fact checking me I think it’s important to say what’s actually going on,” Vance said. He went on to explain how illegal aliens can use an app to apply for legal status, which he said was a part of the Biden-Harris open border policies. The moderators continued trying to cut Vance off, but he kept speaking. They even cut his mic off. But Vance didn’t look reckless or like a boor. He looked like a guy who took the discussion—and the intelligence of the American people—seriously. This is how it should be done. The only people who looked bad in the exchange were the moderators. Vance is clearly quite good at this, but one way or another he provided the model for how to walk into a biased debate and come out looking better at the end of it. It will certainly be difficult to convince the American people that Vance is “weird” after that. The post Vance Delivers a Masterclass in How to Deal With Biased Moderators appeared first on The Daily Signal.

When CBS moderators harped on the events of Jan. 6, Republican 2024 Vice Presidential Nominee JD Vance came out swinging, addressing a real threat to democracy: the assault by Big Tech and the left on Americans’ First Amendment Rights. During Tuesday night’s 2024 Vice Presidential Debate candidates Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) and Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) covered a host of topics including questions on immigration, abortion, child care, health care, immigration and Iran’s recent attack on America’s ally Israel. But Sen. Vance also spoke up about the dire state of Americans’ free speech rights. “I believe we actually do have a threat to democracy in this country, but unfortunately it's not the threat to democracy that Kamala Harris and Tim Walz want to talk about,” Vance said. “It is the threat of censorship.” Vance proceeded to blast Harris and Big Tech companies for their abysmal pro-censorship record. “It's big technology companies silencing their fellow citizens. And it's Kamala Harris saying that rather than debate and persuade her fellow Americans, she’d like to censor people who engage in misinformation,” Vance said. “I think that's a much bigger threat to democracy than anything we've seen in this country in the last four years in the last 40 years.”  The Ohio senator mentioned that former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and former Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard had endorsed former President Donald Trump’s campaign over his support for free speech. “We are united behind a basic American First Amendment principle that we ought to debate our differences, we ought to argue about them, we ought to try to persuade our fellow Americans,” Vance told CBS viewers.  Then Vance let Harris have it. “Kamala Harris is engaged in censorship at an industrial scale. She did it during COVID. She has done it on a number of issues and that to me is a much bigger threat to democracy than what Donald Trump said when he said that protestors should protest peacefully.”  The Republican Vice Presidential nominee went after the left for hypocritically purporting to defend democracy while failing to protect “the most sacred right under the United States democracy” the First Amendment.  Vance even took Walz to task for his infamous remark that “There’s no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech.” Vance went on to say that “Kamala Harris wants to use the power of government and Big Tech to silence people from speaking their minds. That is a threat to democracy that will long outlive this present political moment. I would like Democrats and Republicans to both reject censorship.” This request was too much for Walz, who tried to excuse this relentless wave of censorship by saying that you can’t “yell fire in a crowded theater.”  Walz ultimately ignored the substance of Vance’s remarks and the fact that seven federal agencies have colluded with Big Tech to silence Americans’ speech. The Twitter Files also exposed federal pressure on Twitter to silence so-called misinformation and disinformation and Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently apologized for bowing to such pressure on his platforms.  Conservatives are under attack! Contact your representatives and demand that Big Tech be held to account to mirror the First Amendment while providing transparency, clarity on so-called hate speech and equal footing for conservatives. If you have been censored, contact us using CensorTrack’s contact form, and help us hold Big Tech accountable.