How Tim Walz Finally Stopped JD Vance From Sane-Washing Trump 

“Black Vote, Black Power,” a collaboration between Keith Boykin and Word In Black, examines the issues, the candidates, and what’s at stake for Black America in the 2024 presidential election. NEW YORK – The most important moment of the vice presidential debate was JD Vance refusing to admit that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election. Four years later, it shocks me that we have a presidential candidate who not only won’t admit that he lost, but won’t even allow his running mate to admit that he lost.  “Did he lose the 2020 election?” Tim Walz asked “Tim, I focused on the future,” he replied. “That is a damning non-answer,” Walz shot back. It’s also disqualifying. It took until the end of the debate before Walz landed the punch, but that moment undercut everything else Vance thought he had accomplished in rewriting the history of the Trump years. Throughout the night, Vance came across as a smug, robotic, slick, and scripted opportunist who will do or say anything to get ahead, including sane-washing Trump’s toxic rhetoric to make it more palatable for middle America. RELATED: 10 Big Lies Trump and the Republicans Tell About Kamala Harris Tim Walz, the former high...