Editorial: Vance's debate dodge of a crucial question should be disqualifying for any veep

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

39% : Those who are still pondering how they will vote Nov. 5 should be clear on this: If and when Trump re-takes office, democracy won't have a Mike Pence around to defend it this time.
38% : And, especially, for his assertion that Trump "peacefully gave over power on January the 20th," 2021.
34% : Trump, he noted, "is still saying he didn't lose the election."
28% : Trump has tested those guardrails long enough to know how to potentially knock them down next time.
24% : In his place, a compassionate-conservative-sounding guy who deserves an Emmy for so earnestly delivering up fictional lines about immigrants causing housing shortages, about how Trump "salvaged" Obamacare, about the nonexistent "Kamala Harris administration" causing every societal ill imaginable.
21% : He noted that then-Vice President Pence's responsible decision to certify the 2020 election results -- upholding his constitutional oath even as Trump violated his own -- was the only reason it was Vance rather than Pence on the stage with him.
19% : Trump "lost the election," Walz continued.
12% : Anyone unfamiliar with the kind of campaign Trump is running, and Vance's toxic role in it, might not have recognized the astonishing sane-washing happening on the stage.
8% : "In other words, he would have played along with Trump's scheme to poison the process with fake electors -- a scheme that has already led to numerous felony indictments and is part of the pending federal criminal case against Trump himself for election interference.

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