Tim Walz VP Debate Watch Party and Liveblog 2

After much public demand, we are starting a new VP debate liveblog.  Please join in with your astute insights and reactions.

The previous one is here — Tim Walz VP Debate Watch Party and Liveblog

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Over on the PBS website, Politifact is live fact-checking — www.pbs.org/… Check it out.

Some snippets —

We are pro-freedom.

Gov. Walz: We are not pro-abortion. We are pro-women. We are pro-freedom to make your own choice pic.twitter.com/QOOayI3UI4

— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) October 2, 2024

Sometimes it’s just the guns.

Gov. Walz: Just because you have a mental health issue doesn't mean you're violent. Sometimes it’s just the guns pic.twitter.com/ryaC4E8BFK

— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) October 2, 2024

Live fact-check by Waltz

Gov. Walz: I guess we agreed not to fact check, so I will fact check it. Migrant crossings are down since Donald Trump left office pic.twitter.com/0NU4Sh8hkc

— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) October 2, 2024

If you don't know an Amanda or a Hadley, you will.

Gov. Walz: If you don't know an Amanda or a Hadley, you will. Project 2025 is going to have a registry of pregnancies. It's going to make it more difficult or impossible to get contraception and limit access, if not eliminate access to infertility treatments pic.twitter.com/qNyG4p7TyF

— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) October 2, 2024

We trust women. We trust doctors.

Gov. Walz: For so many, including me, fertility treatments are why I have a child. This is about basic human rights. We have seen maternal mortality skyrocket in Texas, outpacing many other countries in the world. This is about health care. In Minnesota, we are ranked first in… pic.twitter.com/apvcTGoRIV

— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) October 2, 2024

Gov. Walz explains how health insurance works to JD Vance -

Gov. Walz: Here's where being an old guy gives you some history. I was there at the creation of the ACA. Remember this, the first thing Trump said he was going to do was to repeal the Affordable Care Act. That means you lose your protections if you have preexisting conditions. If… pic.twitter.com/yZ8tZkuo9W

— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) October 2, 2024

A damning non-answer. Walz took JD to the cleaners for trying to whitewash Jan 6.

Gov. Walz: Did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election?

Vance: I’m focused on the future

Walz: That is a damning non-answer pic.twitter.com/h1MXP2fGY8

— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) October 2, 2024

The idea that there is censorship to stop people from killing someone, that's not censorship. Censorship is book banning.

Gov. Walz: January 6 was not Facebook ads. These things have massive repercussions. The idea that there is censorship to stop people from killing someone, that's not censorship. Censorship is book banning pic.twitter.com/76ViTpwSWj

— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) October 2, 2024

The memorable closing statement by Walz -

Gov. Walz’s full closing statement at the vice presidential debate pic.twitter.com/9afkjlc15P

— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) October 2, 2024