Did you know that if only Joe Biden were president back in May that the sainted George Floyd would still be alive today?

That’s what Biden’s Democratic running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris, proclaimed at Wednesday’s vice presidential debate when she said Floyd “would still be alive today” because she and Biden support a ban on police chokeholds and physical apprehensions that put force near a subject’s carotid artery. (This more or less permits police to confront hostile suspects with a whistle and a little gun that fires off a flag that says “BANG.”) Harris made this claim with a straight face even though basically no one was talking about banning police chokeholds until after Floyd’s death.