The Campaign Moment: Walz vs. Vance
Post Reports
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🗓️ 2 October 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Democratic Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota and Republican Sen. JD Vance of Ohio faced off at what was expected to be the only vice presidential debate on Tuesday night. But it was much less dramatic than the presidential debates.
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“Post Reports” co-host Elahe Izadi talks with senior political reporter Aaron Blake about Walz’s stumbling performance, Vance’s efforts to soften his image on unpopular issues for the GOP, like abortion, and whether either performance could significantly impact the race.
Today’s show was produced by Laura Benshoff and Emma Talkoff. It was edited by Lucy Perkins and Mary Jo Murphy and mixed by Rennie Svirnovskiy.
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| 0:00.0 | How are you tonight, Aaron? |
| 0:04.2 | I'm doing okay. How are you a lot? |
| 0:05.8 | I'm doing good. |
| 0:06.8 | You know, we just watched the Vice Presidential debate and as I was watching them debate I was trying to imagine what was the pump-up song that each of them |
| 0:16.1 | listened to before they took the debate stage? Like what song did they listen to to hype themselves up? And then it made me |
| 0:22.1 | ask myself, what would errands pump up |
| 0:24.4 | song be if he had to go debate someone what would you listen to you know I have |
| 0:28.6 | this mix of very this is gonna surprise some people but I have a mix of very angry 90s hip-hop that I listen to when I'm working out of the gym. |
| 0:39.0 | Give me a title. |
| 0:41.0 | The first one that comes to mind. I don't even know if I can say this on a |
| 0:45.0 | Washington Post podcast but hit him up by Tupac is on there like literally like |
| 0:50.0 | the angriest angriest nineties hip-hop that I can think of and I made this |
| 0:54.3 | playlist and it's like yeah |
| 0:55.8 | err and Blake you and I are kindred spirits because I too have a 90s hip-hop song and it is a Wu-Tang song so oh here we go we're gonna have to debate each other Triumph because I'm in a triumph in the debate. That makes more sense. |
| 1:14.0 | I should add that to the play list actually. |
| 1:16.0 | Yeah, totally. |
| 1:17.0 | Welcome to the campaign moment on this very early morning on Wednesday, October 2nd. |
| 1:25.2 | I'm Ella Haye Zadi, co-host of Post Reports. |
| 1:28.3 | And I'm Aaron Blake, senior politics reporter and author of the campaign moment newsletter. |
| 1:32.8 | Just a heads up to our listeners, the audio of our conversation might sound a little |
| 1:42.4 | different than what you're used to because |
| 1:44.3 | we're recording this late and we ran into some tech issues but we've got it |
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