During a MSNBC panel discussion about extremists attaching themselves to Donald Trump's faltering presidential campaign, host Andrea Mitchell expressed bafflement and disgust with Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) over his latest comments about Jan. 6.
Speaking with guests Michael Steele and journalist McKay Coppins, Mitchell noted the firestorm created by the former president embracing far-right gadfly Laura Loomer who seems to be at war with the entire Republican party, before bringing up the former president's 2024 running mate.
Sharing a clip of Vance stating he disagreed with former Vice President Mike Pence on the certification of the 2020 election and that, instead, he "would have asked the states to submit alternative slates of electors and let the country have the debate about what actually matters and what kind of an election that we had.”
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That left Mitchell to promptly state, "I don't know where to start. The Supreme Court made decisions in 60, well there were 63 separate judges and several other cases that went all the way to the Supreme Court that there were not fraud that would have changed the election outcomes and that the electors needed to be on schedule on January 6 all be certified."
"And the fact that Pence wasn't asked, there was endless testimony about that including from him," she added.
"Yeah, there is literally no substance to back up what J.D. Vance just said," Coppins offered. "But I think it is important to talk about what he's doing here, this is why he was added to the ticket, right? He made a Faustian bargain a few years ago when he decided to transition his career from best-selling author and thought leader to MAGA political candidate. That he was going to do what needed to be done to get on Trump's good side."
"And he's spent the last several years basically auditioning for the role of Donald Trump's VP, and when you're auditioning for that role, you have to say a lot of things that you know are untrue, " he added.
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