What to expect from the Tim Walz, JD Vance faceoff

JD Vance was debating in Youngstown, where Tim Ryan lived, and where Democrats always voted for him. The question was on one of the Democratic U.S. Senate nominee’s strongest issues: Abortion, and the impact of the Dobbs decision. And Ryan closed his answer with the story of a 10-year old girl who traveled to Indiana for abortion, a high-profile case that Republicans first struggled to believe, then struggled to talk about.

Vance didn’t struggle.

“Obviously, an incredibly tragic situation,” said Vance. But the real abortion issues, he explained, were Ryan’s resistance to late-term limits and support for loose immigration laws. “That little girl was raped by an illegal immigrant, and both Tim Ryan and the media need to be honest about the fact that she would never have been raped in the first place if Tim Ryan had done his job on border security.”