Instant Reaction: Vice Presidential Debate
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🗓️ 2 October 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Ohio Senator and Trump running mate JD Vance faced off with Minnesota Governor and Harris VP pick Tim Walz for the first Vice Presidential debate - and possibly the last debate of the 2024 election cycle.
The candidates touched on key topics such as foreign policy, climate change, and immigration. Walz opened with sharp criticism toward Donald Trump, noting that many of the former president’s own aides had questioned the Republican presidential candidate’s suitability for office. Vance repeatedly targeted Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, suggesting she should have done more over the past four years to address chaos abroad and a struggling economy.
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| 0:37.1 | And 90 minutes of debate between Senator JD Vance and Governor Tim Wells ends. |
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| 0:43.6 | simulcast coverage of this debate on CBS. Of course over the last 90 minutes |
| 0:48.8 | we saw Mike's hot and facts sometimes checked although JD Vance was not too happy about that |
| 0:55.9 | as they fielded questions on a number of subjects and Governor Walls described |
| 0:59.5 | himself as someone who frequently misspeaks he admitted he misspoke about a trip to China, the timing of that in 1989. |
| 1:06.9 | He appeared to misspeak once again in this debate saying he'd become friends with school shooters. |
| 1:11.6 | While JD Vance toward the end of their discussion |
| 1:13.9 | refused to say whether or not Donald Trump lost in the 2020 election. |
| 1:19.1 | There were a number of topics as well, Joe Matthew, that were not broached in this debate including |
| 1:24.1 | questions around Ukraine for example or the military service of Governor |
| 1:28.6 | Walz. Yeah both of which we expected we hear quite a bit of time spent on here not the case this evening some |
| 1:34.4 | interesting choices when it came to topics for instance family leave instead of |
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