With the US presidential election campaign for both political parties entering the final days before Tuesday’s vote, Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance has seemingly sought to detoxify Donald Trump’s image by claiming his running mate has never called for his critics to be “censored or silenced”.

Former President Donald Trump's running mate has Democratic jaws dropping after he suggested there was one thing his boss would never do. Sen. J.D. Vance told rally attendees in Aston, Pennsylvania, on Sunday that the Republican presidential nominee always had championed Americans' right to freedom of speech — and always would.