Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) successfully flipped the script on “climate change” during Tuesday evening’s vice-presidential debate, as the moderators attempted to resurrect this left-wing talking point, likely unprepared for the way former President Donald Trump’s running mate brought it all back to the American worker and how Vice President Kamala Harris’s policies are leading to a dirtier environment. [emphasis, links added]
“Let’s turn now to Hurricane Helene. The storm could become one of the deadliest on record,” moderator Norah O’Donnell said, citing scientists who claim “climate change makes these hurricanes larger, stronger and more deadly because of the historic rainfall.”
She then cited CBS News polling, which found that seven in ten Americans “and more than 60 percent of Republicans under the age of 45 favor the US taking steps to try and reduce climate change.”
“Senator, what responsibility would the Trump administration have to try and reduce the impact of climate change?” O’Donnell asked.
Vance first spoke about the victims of the “unbelievable, unspeakable” tragedy, offering prayers to them.
“I commit that when Donald Trump is president again, the government will put the citizens of this country first when they suffer from a disaster,” he promised.
But then, instead of challenging the flawed premise of the question, Vance took a different approach.
“I think it’s important for us, first of all, to say Donald Trump and I support clean air, clean water. We want the environment to be cleaner and safer. But one of the things that I’ve noticed some of our Democratic friends talking a lot about is a concern about carbon emissions, this idea that carbon emissions drive all the climate change,” Vance said.
“But let’s just say that’s true, just for the sake of argument,” he said, pointing to the fact that Democrat policies are making things much worse if they believe that this is true.
“Well, if you believe that, what would you … want to do? The answer is that you’d want to re-shore as much American manufacturing as possible, and you’d want to produce as much energy as possible in the United States of America because we are the cleanest economy in the entire world,” he said.
Research shows that re-shoring American manufacturing cuts carbon emissions. And even the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) has identified the U.S. as one of the cleanest nations on the planet.
Vance then flipped the issue, placing it squarely back on Democrats.
“Kamala Harris’s policies actually led to more energy production in China, more manufacturing overseas, more doing business in some of the dirtiest parts of the entire world. When I say that, I mean the amount of carbon emissions they’re doing per unit of economic output,” he said.
“So if we actually care about getting cleaner air and cleaner water, the best thing to do is to double down and invest in American workers and the American people,” Vance added. “And unfortunately, Kamala Harris has done exactly the opposite.”
In his rebuttal, Vance again pressed the point that if Democrats and Harris truly believed what they were saying about climate change, they would bring more manufacturing and more energy production in the U.S.
“And that’s not what they’re doing. So clearly, Kamala Harris herself doesn’t believe her own rhetoric on this. If she did, she would actually agree with Donald Trump’s energy policies,” Vance concluded.
Notably, a CBS poll taken after the debate shows Vance topping Walz in the debate.
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The moderators are supposed to be unbiased. What is significant is that CNN chose moderators who don’t even pretend to unbiased.
Vance is right that bringing industry back to the US would reduce emissions because these are lower in the US per unit of production. This certainly appeals to the American people especially as far as the jobs it would create. However, many climate activists are not interested in reducing carbon dioxide. They support the climate fraud because of the agendas that are hitchhiking on it. One of these is the goal to force degrowth in Western Civilizations. Bringing industry back to the US undermines that goal.
I worry about the ‘moderator’ who sounds like an ill-educated lefty Democrat girlie possessed of anti capitalist rhetoric absorbed from her little bubble of ignorance and bias.
This is a smart man; further as you will hear the most revered scientists in the world state this fact; CO2 has never caused warming or cooling in the history of the planet and there is no science to suggest that this will change.
Trying to blame all the Hurricanes since Katrina on Global Warming/Climate Change just typical just like blaming Hailstorms on Witches Nothings change their always looking for Scapegoats especially the Eco-Freaks the Demo-Rats and the M.S. Media Bottom Feeders