MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace melted down Tuesday night over Republican Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio’s answer on abortion during the vice-presidential debate, saying moderators should have profanely fact-checked him.
Vance and Democratic Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota held a debate hosted by CBS News Tuesday evening, during which Walz made multiple verbal gaffes while responding to questions. Wallace bemoaned that co-moderators Norah O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan didn’t tell Vance that the reversal of Roe v. Wade led to the death of a Georgia woman following complications from an abortion.
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“I agree with you that we’re in year nine and no one knows how to cover the audacity. The audacity is that someone should have said, ‘Stop it. Stop. Are you effing kidding me?’ They should have dropped that F-bomb, right?” Wallace asked co-panelists Rachel Maddow and Symone Sanders-Townsend. “This is a debate. This may be the only chance people have to see the difference. And instead, I will go back to my toothpicks, J.D. Vance just put one little toothpick on top of the other and said, ‘I am for this and I am for this, and I’m so sorry those women died.’”
“They died because of Donald Trump. One man had a litmus test for the people he put on the Supreme Court, and he put not one, not two, but three on because they passed a litmus test, said they would overturn Roe,” Wallace continued. “That is why Amber died. That’s why that little boy does not have a mom. And nobody made that reality come to life. Because I think if you — even if you didn’t get the contrast you were looking for, neither did you get any, you know, ‘Wake up and smell the smelling salts.’ You got sort of lulled into normalcy.”
The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022 after upholding a Mississippi law in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that banned most abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy. Three justices appointed by former President Donald Trump, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett were in the majority that struck down the controversial 1973 ruling.
Since the Supreme Court handed down the Dobbs decision, abortion has been a top issue for Democrats, including Vice President Kamala Harris, who has repeatedly promised to restore Roe v. Wade if she is elected.
Out of 22 6-3 decisions issued by the Supreme Court in its 2023-2024 term, only half saw all of the justices appointed by Republican presidents line up against the justices appointed by Democratic presidents. The high court also issued unanimous decisions that turned away a challenge to medication used to induce abortions, struck down an effort to bar Trump from the presidential ballot and upheld the National Rifle Association’s lawsuit against New York alleging violations of the First Amendment.
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