Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, called out Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn., for wanting to implement a mass censorship regime, blocking Americans from practicing their First Amendment rights.
“I believe we actually do have a threat to democracy in this country. Unfortunately, it’s not the threat to democracy that Kamala Harris and Tim Walz want to talk about. It is the threat of censorship,” Vance said at Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate. “It’s Kamala Harris saying that rather than debating and persuading fellow Americans, she would like to censor people who engage in misinformation. That’s a bigger threat to democracy than anything we’ve seen in the last four years or 40 years.”
Walz, ironically, was spouting falsehoods himself, attempting to make the argument that a peaceful transfer of power was nearly not accomplished after the 2020 election and connecting deaths of Capitol police officers to the January 6 riot, despite the fact that they were entirely unrelated.
Harris and Walz have a long track record of anti-free speech rhetoric and actions, and, like many Democrats, have tried to justify their crackdown as simply protecting Americans from “misinformation.”
Walz has said in the past that “there’s not guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech, and especially around our democracy,” despite the fact that both “misinformation” and “hate speech” are entirely protected by the First Amendment.
“We are united behind a basic American First Amendment principle, which allows us to debate our differences fairly, argue about them,
