‘Are You Effing Kidding Me?’: MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace Outraged At Vance’s Answer On Abortion During Debate

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.”