Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) and Democratic vice presidential candidate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz participate in the CBS News Vice-Presidential Debate Tuesday night in New York City.

Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) speaks during the vice presidential debate with Democratic vice presidential candidate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.

Democratic vice presidential candidate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speaks during the vice presidential debate Tuesday night in New York City.

To hear Sen. J.D. Vance tell it in the CBS News Vice Presidential debate, you’d think that his running mate wasn’t a convicted felon, a coup plotter, and a congenital liar.

Oh, and, to Vance, immigrants are to blame for, well, everything that ails America.

Everything.

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Health care? Immigrants. Housing? Immigrants. Pet eating? Immigrants.

Throw in his repeated references to the “Kamala Harris Administration,” and you’d think that she’s been president herself for the past three and a half years. Oh, and this czarina also runs the “regulatory regime.” Such power for a vice president!

Gov. Tim Walz, Vance’s opponent in what-appears-to-be-the-only VP debate, came off as what he is: a nice guy, a social studies teacher, and a football coach from Nebraska and Minnesota who speaks like a regular human.

Imagine that.

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Candy-coating the massive Trump lies is, to put it bluntly, almost impossible, and Vance, who once called his own running mate a possible American Hitler, didn’t do a terribly effective job in doing so.

Over the course of this warp-speed campaign, Vance has been not only........

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