Republican Vice Presidential nominee JD Vance called for “dialing down the rhetoric” during a campaign stop in Atlanta on Monday night, even as his running mate continued to engage in it.
Channel 2′s Richard Elliot was at the Cobb Galleria where Vance spoke to evangelical voters at the Faith & Freedom Coalition dinner just a day after a failed assassination attempt on his running mate, Donald Trump .
Vance said he spoke with Trump just 10 minutes after the incident and learned the former president was unharmed.
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“We can disagree with one another. We can debate one another. But we cannot tell the American people that one candidate is a fascist and if he’s elected, it’s going to be the end of American democracy.
But Trump was busy on social media Monday doing just that, calling his Democratic opponent “Comrade Kamala Harris” and accusing her of using “Communist left rhetoric” to enflame violence.
Vance, meanwhile, talked about the economy, immigration, crime, and abortion – praising Trump for being pro-life and appointing Supreme Court justices who overturned Roe V. Wade.