Steve Benen is a producer for 'The Rachel Maddow Show,' the editor of MaddowBlog and an MSNBC political contributor. He's also the bestselling author of 'The Impostors: How Republicans Quit Governing and Seized American Politics.'
As Donald Trump weighs his running-mate options, it’s not a secret that House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik and Sen. J.D. Vance are among the contenders. The result has been an unfortunate race to the bottom, in which the New York congresswoman and the Ohio senator have gone back and forth for months, each trying to one-up the other in the hopes of impressing the former president.
6 rioters who literally chanted, “Hang Mike Pence,” Vance said last night that “a few people” said “some bad things,” but he insisted it was “absurd” to hold Trump accountable for his radical followers’ rhetoric. Vance’s comments come three years after Trump personally defended rioters’ “hang Mike Pence” chants, describing the mantra as “common sense.
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