"Focused on nitpicking": Vance stews over another fact-check

JD Vance really doesn't like being fact-checked.

The vice presidential candidate fumed over a correction during a recent debate with Tim Walz, and he stewed once again during a visit to ABC's "This Week" that didn't allow him to spread lies.

Vance started off the interview with a favorite canard of the Donald Trump campaign in recent weeks: that the federal response to Hurricanes Helene and Milton was delayed because affected areas reliably vote for Republicans. FEMA has outright rejected the idea that they are using voter maps to determine how quickly hard-hit areas receive aid, but that hasn't stopped the conspiracy from growing in right-wing circles, aided by boosts from both Trump and Vance.

"If these areas were a little more Democratic, maybe Kamala Harris would have focused on them more," Vance said of the response, declining to note that Harris is not currently the president of the United States.

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