Logement, avortement, immigration… Les candidats à la vice-présidence se sont exprimés sur de nombreux sujets mardi soir. Nos journalistes ont examiné quatre de leurs déclarations les plus percutantes.
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Tout ce que j’ai dit à ce sujet, c’est que je suis arrivé à l’été [1989] and that I expressed myself badly on this subject. So I’ll just – that’s what I said. So I was in Hong Kong and China, during the democracy protests, I went there.
Tim Walz, Democratic candidate
Tim Walz taught English in China. He first went there in 1989, the year of protests that culminated in a June massacre of hundreds of people in Tiananmen Square. The governor has claimed in the past that he was in Hong Kong during the events, but records from the time indicate he was still in Nebraska in the spring. He is said to have traveled to Hong Kong, then to mainland China, in August 1989.
The law that you signed into law, it says that a doctor who performs an abortion that the baby survives… The doctor has no obligation to provide life-saving care to the baby who survives a botched late-term abortion.
JD Vance, Republican candidate
In 2023, the governor of Minnesota signed a law to guarantee the right to abortion. There is no limit on the stage of pregnancy. The law has recognized, for many years, that if a child is born alive after an abortion procedure, they are recognized as a person, with the same legal protections. But in 2023, Democrats changed the phrase “all measures must be taken by medical personnel to preserve the life and health of the infant born alive” to “all measures must be taken by medical personnel to provide care to the infant.” infant born alive. For a nonviable infant, this may effectively result in comfort care rather than an attempt to prolong life.
Donald Trump has paid no federal taxes in the last 15 years.
Tim Walz, Democratic candidate
In fact, Donald Trump paid taxes… not a lot, but he paid some. For the years 2016 and 2017, he had paid $750 per year in federal income tax, revealed the New York Times in 2020. For ten of the previous 15 years he had paid no tax. During three years of his mandate, he paid $1 million in taxes… then nothing in 2020. While his rival Kamala Harris made public her tax returns from the last 20 years when she entered the race this summer, Donald Trump has so far not given the slightest sign that he is going to do so.
You have completely unaffordable housing because we have brought in millions of illegal immigrants who compete with Americans for scarce housing.
JD Vance, Republican candidate
Donald Trump’s running mate took up this assertion which has been qualified, even denied, several times by experts. House construction declined sharply during the 2008 recession and never regained the pace of the early 2000s. The population continued to increase, in particular due to immigration. Some studies, as Mr. Vance mentioned during the debate, indicate that immigration has increased the demand for housing. Other studies suggest that reducing immigration levels would have a negative effect on home construction, since many immigrants work on construction sites.