Trump Campaign Fact-Checks Tim Walz After J.D. Vance Torches Him in Debate Showdown — Here are the Details

J.D. Vance delivered a devastating verbal takedown of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, and the Trump campaign wasted no time fact-checking Walz’s blunders.

Trump’s campaign co-managers Susie Wiles and Chris Lacivita congratulated J.D. Vance on his dominant debate victory.

“Senator Vance unequivocally won tonight’s debate in dominating fashion. It was the best debate performance from any Vice-Presidential candidate in history.

Senator Vance spoke the truth, eloquently prosecuted the case against Kamala Harris’ failed record, and effectively held Governor Tim Walz accountable for his lies on behalf of the Harris-Biden Administration.

Senator Vance also perfectly articulated the Trump-Vance vision to make America safe again with their plan to launch the largest mass deportation operation in history; to make America strong again with a peace through strength foreign policy agenda; and to make America wealthy again by cutting taxes, unleashing American energy dominance, and ending inflation.

Tonight, Senator Vance proved why President Trump chose him as his running mate. Together, they make the strongest and most dynamic presidential ticket ever, and they are going to win on November 5th.”

Vance’s debate performance made it abundantly clear: Americans cannot afford four more years of Kamala Harris’s disastrous leadership, and Walz did nothing to change that.

According to Trump’s campaign:

Tonight, Senator JD Vance succinctly outlined the Trump-Vance plan for restoring prosperity, safety, and security to the American people after four years of destruction at the hands of Kamala Harris.

Tampon Tim Walz, meanwhile, humiliated himself by offering the same failed, weak, radical leftism that has failed us — unable to answer the most basic question: why hasn’t Kamala done any of what she’s proposing during her 3.5 years in the White House?

Here are the most memorable moments:

• Walz nodded in agreement when Vance said Kamala “enabled the Mexican drug cartels to operate freely in this country.”
• Vance fact checked CBS’s “fact check” on Kamala’s app that allows unvetted illegal aliens to enter the country — and CBS got so annoyed, they cut off his microphone.
• Vance questioned why Kamala hasn’t done anything she is proposing: “Kamala Harris has been the vice president for three-and-a-half years. She’s had the opportunity to enact all of these ‘great’ policies — and what she’s actually done instead is drive the cost of food higher by 25%, drive the cost of housing higher by 60%, open the American southern border, and make middle class life unaffordable.”
• Vance cooked Walz on the economic records of President Trump and Kamala Harris: “You have to pretend that Donald Trump didn’t deliver rising take home pay, you have to pretend Donald Trump didn’t deliver lower inflation and you have to simultaneously defend Kamala Harris’ atrocious economic record.”
• Walz denied Kamala Harris has let millions of illegal aliens invade the country after she decimated President Trump’s border security.
• Walz was unable to name a single thing Kamala has done for the middle class during her tenure.
• Walz bizarrely claimed he has “become friends with school shooters.”
• Walz lied about President Trump’s tariffs — many of which were so successful, the Harris-Biden administration kept them in place.
• Walz dodged the fact that most Americans trust President Trump on the economy.
• Tiananmen Tim humiliated himself trying to explain why he lied about being in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square massacre — when he was actually in Nebraska.
• Walz refused to say if he supports ANY limits on abortion-on-demand — after he legalized unrestricted abortion-on-demand until birth in Minnesota.
• Walz lied about a law he signed in Minnesota eliminating the requirement to provide lifesaving care for babies born alive following botched abortions.
• Walz admitted he “learned a lot of what needed to be in governance” from communist China.
• Vance called out Walz for his support of censoring the views of Americans with whom he disagrees.
• Vance scorched the Harris-Biden administration’s appeasement of the Iranian regime.
• Walz denied Kamala — who supported mandatory gun confiscation — is “taking your guns.”

Walz made clear why Americans will reject the Harris-Walz ticket in November:Kamala Harris has had three-and-a-half years in the White House — and Americans are worse off because of it.

Why would Americans reward her with another term?

The Trump campaign wasted no time fact-checking the liberal governor’s baseless claims in real-time. Here are the fact checks from Trump’s campaign:

FACT CHECK: Walz Is An Open Borders Radical — Just Like Kamala

Walz is lying about the border after Kamala unleashed the worst border invasion in modern history — and it’ll be much, much worse if the two are elected.

Walz has done everything possible to bring the open border to Minnesota:

• Walz backed mass amnesty for millions of illegal aliens.
• Walz refused to call Kamala’s unprecedented border invasion a “crisis.”
• Walz wants to provide “ladder[s]” to aid illegal immigrants in scaling the border wall.
• Walz signed legislation giving illegal aliens free, taxpayer-funded health care and college.
• Walz signed legislation allowing illegal aliens to get driver’s licenses and title vehicles.
• Walz opened an “Office of New Americans,” which spends taxpayer dollars “solely on supporting immigrant and refugee integration” in the sanctuary state.
• Walz bragged about mass migration overwhelming a small Minnesota town.
• Walz fully supports “sanctuary cities” and “sanctuary states.”

Kamala has done everything possible to decimate American border security:

• Kamala admitted her policy was to “undo” President Trump’s successful border security — and she made good on that promise. On day one, she terminated almost every Trump policy by halting the border wall, suspending deportations, terminating ‘Remain in Mexico,’ implementing catch-and-release, and more.
• In 2021, Kamala was crowned “border czar” and illegal border crossings went one way: UP. The average number of illegal border crossings each month has nearly tripled under Kamala (196,000/month) over President Trump, while the number of illegals released into the country went from two-digit monthly releases under President Trump to five- and six-digit monthly releases under Kamala — and that doesn’t include the illegals she ferried in through her phone app and migrant flights.
• Kamala handed control of the border to the brutal cartels and gangs who haveexploited the crisis to expand their grip. Mexican cartels are now making 26 TIMES as much as they made in 2018 while the infamous Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang builds a “criminal empire” in the U.S.
• President Trump didn’t need a “border bill” to secure the border — and Democrats don’t either. It was a MASS AMNESTY bill that would have put illegal aliens on a fast-track to citizenship, established a first-ever minimum number of illegals who must be imported (1.8+ million per year), funneled millions of dollars to left-wing organizations that enable human trafficking, and more.

A Harris-Walz presidency would take it ten steps further if they are elected in November — granting mass amnesty to tens of millions of illegal aliens, decriminalizing illegal border crossings, giving taxpayer-funded health care to illegal aliens, and more.

• Harris-Walz will make every state a “sanctuary state.”
• Harris-Walz will grant MASS AMNESTY to tens of millions of illegals already in the country.
• Harris-Walz will decriminalize illegal border crossings.
• Harris-Walz will give taxpayer-funded health care coverage to illegal immigrants.
• Harris-Walz will shutter immigration detention centers and release thousands of criminals.

FACT CHECK: Harris-Walz’s NO GROWTH Energy Future

A Harris-Walz presidency guarantees a NO-GROWTH FUTURE — with windmills, solar panels, and massive national energy taxes.

The Harris-Walz energy agenda would have devastating effects on key states like Pennsylvania — the third-largest fossil fuel producing state, where the oil and natural gas industry directly accounts for 93,000+ jobs and supports hundreds of thousands more. 

The Harris-Walz energy agenda would destroy Pennsylvania’s economy as we know it:

• Kamala supports a ban on fracking, which accounts for tens of thousands of jobs in Pennsylvania.
• Kamala supports mandating a “net-zero” electric grid by 2035 and going fully “net-zero” by 2050, which ultimately makes energy more expensive.
• Kamala supports a carbon tax, electric vehicle mandate, and ban on gas-powered vehicles.
• Kamala backs the Harris-Biden administration’s effective shutdown of power plants.

Tim Walz takes Kamala’s destructive positions even further to the left:

• Walz mandated an end to all carbon-producing energy in Minnesota by 2040, forcing reliance on unreliable wind and solar — which could cost the state $340 billion and lead to rolling blackouts.
• Walz attempted to force through a California-style ban on gas-powered vehicles.
• Walz opposed a critical oil pipeline because it lacked a “social permit.”
• Walz proposed a “low carbon fuel standard,” which is another tax on consumers.
• Walz backed cap-and-trade, which would’ve killed 2.5 million jobs and raised electricity rates by 90%.
• Under Walz, manufacturers have shut down factories and foundries due to the high electricity costs — killing American jobs.

Britain already followed the Harris-Walz route on “net zero,” which led to their worst peacetime economic growth since 1780 and explosive electricity costs for consumers and businesses.

Nationwide, electricity prices have already surged 30%+ under Harris — but Harris-Walz will make it exponentially worse.

FACT CHECK: The Costs Of Harris-Walz

The Harris-Walz economic “vision” for the country is a trifecta of destruction that includes tax hikes, energy spikes, and inflation bites.

 Tim Walz and Kamala Harris haven’t met a tax hike they didn’t like — and a Harris-Walz presidency would be a trifecta of tax increases that hit hardworking Americans right where it already hurts.

TAXES

• Harris-Walz is pushing the largest tax hike in U.S. history — a multi-trillion-dollar boondoggle that would kill jobs, decrease incomes, and shrink the economy.
  • The Harris-Walz plan would raise taxes by as much as $36,000 per family, while her pledge to eliminate President Trump’s tax cuts alone would raise taxes by $2,581/person.
  • It would also raise taxes on almost 26 million small businesspeople, kill 786,000 American jobs, add trillions to the deficit and national debt, and spike the debt-to-GDP ratio past the record set after WWII.
  • The true costs are likely much higher. That’s what happens when you raise income taxes, business taxes, investment taxes, capital gains taxes, and death taxes — not to mention a new tax on unrealized gains.

ENERGY

• The Harris-Walz “NO-GROWTH” energy plan would ultimately be a massive national energy tax.
  • A Harris-Walz fracking ban would