Let’s get the easy stuff out of the way. The Vice President has knocked Bret Baier away from Ohtani and I don’t think he’s playable anymore. Remember, Tim Walz delivered his KO punch late in his debate, when J. Divan Vance refused to say whether he thought the former president* lost the 2020 election. (On Wednesday, by the way, he answered “No.”) The vice president did the same to Baier when he tried — via a clipped piece of videotape — to minimize the “enemy within” poison that the Republican ticket brings. been scooping out last month. The vice president called him out for that tape sleight of hand and then sent him flying at a significant launch angle.

“Bret, I’m sorry, and with all due respect, that excerpt was not what he said about the enemy in there, what he repeated. When he’s talking about the American people, that’s not what you just showed,” she said. “He has repeated it many times, and you and I both know it. And you and I both know that he has talked about turning the American military against the American people. He has spoken about pursuing people involved in peaceful protest. He’s talked about locking people up because they disagree with him.

“This is a democracy! And in a democracy, the president of the United States, in the United States of America, should be willing to take criticism without saying he would lock people up for it. And this is what is at stake. That’s why you have someone like the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff saying what Mark Milley said about Donald Trump being a threat to the United States of America.”

That seems like a roundabout way of saying, “Look, this has been a farce, and you’re an unapologetic hack, so let me take away your last shred of professional dignity and go back to the hotel,” but that’s just me.

Now on to the real meat of Thursday’s campaign. El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago held two meet-the-voters appearances, one a “women’s event” and the other a performance on Univision to reach “Hispanic voters.” On both occasions, he has provided further evidence that he is not worthy of cleaning up the White House fluff.

The “women’s event” was hosted by Fox anchor Harris Faulkner and featured an audience of screaming MAGA scarves and Republican activists. Faulkner pointed out that the family of Amber Thurman, the woman who died because of the Supreme Court ruling he is so proud of, held a news conference with the vice president. And this is what the Republican presidential candidate responded: