After any political debate, it’s customary for news outlets to do some fact-checking, sometimes on the spot. During CNN’s post-debate coverage, anchor Dana Bash caught up with GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy and confronted him with facts.

Ramaswamy had quite a newsworthy night – maybe not the way he would have wanted to be covered or exactly the way he wanted to be covered, with many fiery moments while he was on the debate stage. Bash, who dove right in with “Where do I even start?” started by asking Ramaswamy about why he attacked everyone including the Republican National Committee and NBC, which aired the debate that gave him a lot of camera time. He responded with his frustration with his party and then launched into the fantastical theory that President Joe Biden was not going to be the Democratic candidate in 2024:

  • admiralteal
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    2 years ago

    She didn’t “shut him down”. She tried to get in a point across and he barged right on along unimpeded by her and continued peddling more bullshit and conspiracy theory.

    The truth means absolutely nothing to a conservative. Evidence means nothing when you never cared about reality in the first place.

    • @bus_go_fast@lemmy.world
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      292 years ago

      The truth means absolutely nothing to a conservative.

      When someone tells me they are a conservative, I always ask “what does that mean? Does that mean you lie all the time? You cheat on your wife? You’re a bigot?”

    • @anon_8675309@lemmy.world
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      52 years ago

      Annoys me that their supporters use fake as a synonym for wrong. Anything at all that is wrong is now fake. That clock isn’t wrong it’s showing fake time. They’ve literally turned people into right-wing zombies.

    • @lobut@lemmy.ca
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      12 years ago

      Tucker Carlson said Obama had a gay lover and that everyone knew about it and doesn’t see why he just doesn’t admit it. With really no evidence.

      If you’re a conservative voter you just see these stories every now and again and are probably like, well I’m sure one or two could be wrong but overall the Dems are obviously terrible. Meanwhile calling Republican criticism fake news.