JD Vance has just responded to the outrage over him missing a vote and a radical leftist getting confirmed as a consequence. He says the leftist nominee would have gotten through even if they had showed up.

Vance is responding to Grace Chong directly who is the “CFO/COO of WarRoom”, who he calls a mouth breathing imbecile. But you might say he’s also responding to DeSantis, who also slammed Republicans for allowing this leftist to get confirmed.

Here’s what Vance had to say:

Grace Chong is a mouth breathing imbecile who attacks those of us in the fight rather than make herself useful.

If I had shown up to the vote in question, the nominee would have succeeded 49-46 rather than 49-45. If every Republican had showed up, Fetterman would have come in and the Democrats still would have gotten their nominee across.

When this 11th Circuit vote happened, I was meeting with President Trump to interview multiple positions for our government, including for FBI Director.

I tend to think it’s more important to get an FBI director who will dismantle the deep state than it is for Republicans to lose a vote 49-46 rather than 49-45.

But that’s just me.

He’s probably right that if they had all showed up, Fetterman would have as well and that would have made it a tie – in which Kamala would have given it to the Dems. Even if the Republican surprised Schumer by showing up, he would have likely held the vote open to make sure Fetterman got there, assuming he was in town.

But you can’t blame DeSantis for being upset because it does affect his state and none of them even tried to show up to block it.

But Vance isn’t wrong either.

UPDATE: I’m not sure why, but now I see that Vance deleted his tweet.