ABC reporter grumbles that it took '90 minutes' in the VP debate before a January 6 question

It was "striking" to ABC News main Washington analogous Jonathan Karl that it took 90 minutes into the vice statesmanlike statement earlier determination was a question connected Jan. 6.

Karl, on with ABC News White House analogous Mary Bruce, discussed the aftermath of the CBS News Vice Presidential Debate betwixt Ohio Sen. JD Vance and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz connected "Good Morning America" connected Wednesday. Bruce reported the Harris run was already attempting to capitalize connected the candidates’ comments regarding the Jan. 6 Capitol protests and the 2020 election.

"Yeah, 90 minutes in, they consciousness that that was the infinitesimal that defined this debate. That speech connected January 6, defending the Constitution, In fact, this greeting they are rushing to get retired an advertisement connected that speech what Walz called Vance’s ‘damning non-answer,’" Bruce said.

Republican vice statesmanlike nominee Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, speaks during a vice statesmanlike statement hosted by CBS News, with Democratic vice statesmanlike campaigner Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, connected Tuesday, Oct. 1, successful New York.  (AP/Matt Rourke)

Karl expressed his vexation that it took truthful agelong to get to the question, considering "this is not a mean election."

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"What was striking to maine is that you had 90 minutes into this statement earlier you deed the information that this is not a mean election, that Donald Trump tried to overturn the past election. And successful that past answer, what you saw is JD Vance saying helium wouldn’t bash what Mike Pence did. He wouldn’t basal up to Donald Trump if helium tried to bash it again. He would assistance him, and helium would person helped him past clip overturn an American antiauthoritarian election," Karl said.

He added, "You yet got to that astatine the end. But, for the archetypal 90 minutes oregon so, this looked similar it is simply a run astir argumentation differences. And it’s truly not, George. It is much than that."

ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent discussed the vice statesmanlike statement connected "Good Morning America" Wednesday.

"It is. It is perfectly stunning, the lone clip successful American past it has ever happened," big George Stephanopoulos responded.

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During the debate, Walz confronted Vance implicit his stance connected the results of the 2020 election.

"This was a menace to our ideology successful a mode that we had not seen, and it manifested itself due to the fact that of Donald Trump's inability to accidental – helium is inactive saying helium didn't suffer the election," Walz said. "Did helium suffer the 2020 election?"

"Tim, I'm focused connected the future. Did Kamala Harris censor Americans from speaking their caput successful the aftermath of the 2020 COVID situation?" Vance responded.

Walz called it a "damning non-answer."

Though voters seemingly did not o.k. of Vance's reply connected the 2020 election, galore considered him the victor of the debate. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

According to the Fox News Debate Dial, the dials for independents and Democratic voters dropped importantly astatine Vance’s reply connected whether erstwhile President Trump mislaid the 2020 election, with independents seeing the sharpest decline.

However, galore viewers and adjacent New York Times columnists person said they believed Vance yet won the statement Tuesday night.

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