Democrat Tim Walz and Republican J.D. Vance will face off next week in the only scheduled U.S. vice presidential debate, a chance for each man to reinforce his partner’s message to voters just weeks before the Nov. 5 election.
Here are some details about the incident:
When and where is the debate?
The 90-minute debate, hosted by CBS News, will take place on October 1 at 9 pm ET (October 2 at 0100 GMT) in New York City, a Democratic stronghold that is the former home of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. 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 watch 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 was watched by 67 million television viewers.
What are the basic rules?
There will be no spectators. Candidates will stand behind the lectern during the duration of the debate. No props or pre-written notes will be allowed on stage. CBS News reserves the right to disable candidates’ microphones.
What to expect from Walz?
Minnesota Governor Walz will likely use his “regular guy” reputation to appeal to voters, including some independents, who view Harris, a former senator from California, as too liberal.
Walz, 60, is a former congressman who won election in a Republican-leaning district before becoming governor.
As governor, he has pushed a progressive agenda including free school meals, tax cuts for the middle class, and expanded paid leave for Minnesota workers.
Walz will likely try to put the strings on Vance, as Harris successfully did in her debate with Trump. Walz has questioned Vance’s Midwestern credentials and ridiculed his 2016 memoir “Hillbilly Elegy” for its depiction of rural America.
“Like all the regular people I grew up with in the Heartland, JD studied at Yale, getting his career funded by Silicon Valley billionaires,” Walz said at his first rally as Harris’ vice presidential nominee. And then wrote a bestseller that ruined that community.” “Come on! This isn’t Middle America.”
Walz, who is also a former high school teacher and football coach, has dismissed Trump and Vance as “creepy and, yes, weird” — a dismissal that spread widely among Democrats.
The Democratic vice presidential nominee has linked Vance to a set of conservative policy proposals called Project 2025, from which Trump has tried to distance himself.
What to expect from Vance?
If Walz adopts Harris’ debate strategy, Vance, the US senator from Ohio, will have to work hard not to remain defensive throughout the debate.
Vance, 40, will likely face questions about his inflammatory rhetoric and may hit back with his characteristic combative style.
In 2021, she has been 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 were eating pets in the Springfield, Ohio city of .
He has also claimed, without evidence, that the suspect in the latest assassination attempt against Trump was acting on the Democrat’s inflammatory language.
Vance said in his remarks, “The big difference between conservatives and liberals is that … no one has tried to kill Kamala Harris in the last few months and now two people have tried to kill Donald Trump in the last few months.” Have tried.” Received rebuke from White House
On the campaign trail, Vance has portrayed Walz and Harris as radical liberals.
They have also questioned the portrayal of Walz’s military record and his family’s fertility struggles.
Vance, who served in the Marine Corps and was a public affairs officer during a six-month stint in Iraq, has accused Walz of leaving the Army National Guard to avoid deploying to Iraq and falsely suggesting that he Had served in the war.
Walz, who served in the Guard for 24 years, retired to run for Congress. He has defended his record, but the Harris campaign has acknowledged that he made a mistake in a 2018 video in which he referenced “weapons of war that I took into battle.” Walz never served in a war zone.
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