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Democrat Tim Walls and Republican J.D. Vance face off in the only scheduled U.S. vice presidential debate next week, a chance for each to reinforce their partner’s message to voters in the weeks before the Nov. 5 election. can give
Here are some details about the event:
When and where is the debate?
The 90-minute debate, hosted by CBS News, will take place on October 1 at 9 pm ET (0100 GMT on October 2) in New York City, a Democratic stronghold that is home to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. There is a house. running against Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris.
Who are the moderators?
The debate will take place at the CBS Broadcast Center and will be moderated by CBS “Evening News” anchor Norah O’Donnell and “Face the Nation” moderator Margaret Brennan.
How can you view the debate?
The event will be broadcast on the CBS network and streamed live on all platforms where CBS News 24/7 and Paramount+ are available. CBS said it would also be made available for simulcast.
The September 10 presidential debate between Harris and Trump on ABC News drew 67 million television viewers.
What are ground rules?
There will be no audience. Candidates will stand behind the lecterns during the discussion. No props or pre-written notes will be allowed on stage. CBS News reserves the right to mute candidates’ microphones.
What to expect from Walls.
Wallis, the governor of Minnesota, will likely use his “regular guy” reputation to try to appeal to voters, including some independents, who view Harris, a former California senator, as too liberal. .
Walls, 60, is a former congressman who won election in a Republican-leaning district before becoming governor.
As governor, he has pushed a progressive agenda that includes free school lunches, tax cuts for the middle class and expanded paid leave for Minnesota workers.
Walls will likely try to needle Vance, as Harris successfully did in his debate with Trump. Walls has questioned Vance’s Midwestern credentials and derided her 2016 memoir “Hill Bully Elegy” for its portrayal of rural America.
“Like all the normal people I grew up with in the heartland, JD went to Yale, spent his career working with Silicon Valley billionaires,” Walls said at his first rally as Harris’ vice presidential pick. provided funding and then wrote a bestseller crushing that community”. “Come on! This isn’t middle America.”
Walls, also a former high school teacher and football coach, has dismissed Trump and Vance as “scary and, yes, weird” — a takedown that resonated widely among Democrats. .
The Democratic vice presidential nominee has linked Vance to a set of conservative policy proposals called Project 2025, which Trump has tried to distance himself from.
What to expect from Venus
U.S. Sen. Vance from Ohio will have to work hard not to get defensive throughout the debate if Walls uses Harris’s debate tactics.
Vance, 40, is likely to face questions about his inflammatory rhetoric and could fire back with his signature combative style.
In 2021, Harris was criticized for referring to Harris and other Democrats as “a bunch of childless cat ladies” and, more recently, for spreading false claims that Haitian immigrants ate pets in Springfield, Ohio. Targeted.
He has also claimed, without evidence, that the suspect in the latest assassination attempt against Trump was acting on inflammatory language from Democrats.
“The big difference between conservatives and liberals is … in the last two months, no one tried to kill Kamala Harris and now two people have tried to kill Donald Trump,” the White House rebuked.
On the campaign trail, Vance has portrayed Walls and Harris as radical liberals.
He has also questioned Walls’ portrayal of his military record and his family’s fertility struggles.
Vance, who served in the Marine Corps and was a public affairs officer during six months in Iraq, has accused Walls of leaving the Army National Guard to avoid being deployed to Iraq. has falsely suggested that he served in combat.
Walls, who served in the Guard for 24 years, retired to run for Congress. He has defended his record, but the Harris campaign has admitted that he misspoke in a 2018 video in which he “referred to the weapons of war that I carried in the war.” Walls never served in a combat zone.
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