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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appeared to question the deployment service of Ohio Republican Sen. JD Vance, who is Donald Trump’s running mate, during a discussion about Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
During the interview, Pelosi appeared to struggle at times to provide an answer, but her most animated moment came during the discussion of Vance’s war zone service.
“To stick with Tim, so well-liked, nominated and elected by the members to be our top Democrat on the Veteran’s Affairs Committee where he brought his knowledge, his priorities, his vision for how we could help our vets better,” Pelosi told MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell.
“And he was working with Chad Edwards of Texas, who was the appropriator, and our caucus did more for veterans in that period of time than since the GI Bill,” she claimed.
“J.D. Vance has criticized him as never having been in combat,” Mitchell noted.
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“Has he? Has he? Has J.D. Vance been in combat?” Pelosi interjected.
“He was over in Iraq, I think, as a public relations officer, as…
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