Vance says that he believes censorship is the greatest threat to democracy during debate

GOP Vice Presidential nominee JD Vance said Tuesday that he believes the greatest threat to democracy is censorship happening within the U.S. 

"I believe that we actually do have a threat to democracy in this country. But unfortunately, it's not the threat to democracy that Kamala Harris and Tim Walz want to talk about," Vance said during the vice presidential debate. "It is the threat of censorship. It's Americans casting lifelong friendships [aside] because of disagreements over politics. It's big technology companies silencing their fellow citizens."

The moderators asked both Vance and Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Tim Walz about threats to democracy and their thoughts on the Jan. 6 Capitol riot in 2021. 

Vance said that instead of wanting to debating issues, Harris supports suppression and censorship which is a major issue. 

"Rather than debate and persuade her fellow Americans, she'd like to censor people who engage in misinformation," he said. "I think that is a much bigger threat to democracy than anything that we've seen in this country in the last four years."

Many Republicans have brought forth concerns about Big Tech censorship and some hearings have taken place over biased censorship from companies like Meta.

"We ought to debate our differences," Vance said. "We ought to argue about them. We ought to try to persuade our fellow Americans. Kamala Harris is engaged in censorship at an industrial scale."