The JD Vance VS Tim Walz Vice Presidential Debate!
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Vice presidential candidates JD Vance and Tim Walz have taken part in their first, and likely only, debate of the 2024 US election.
There were heated moments discussing January 6th, one muted microphone, and lots of policy ground covered: foreign policy, immigration and abortion rights. Will Vance and Walz’s performances help or hurt Donald Trump or Kamala Harris?
Sumi joins Marianna and Anthony who analyse who said what, and how much it matters to the presidential race.
HOSTS: • Anthony Zurcher, North America Correspondent • Marianna Spring, Disinformation and Social Media Correspondent • Sumi Somaskanda, BBC Chief Presenter
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | All right, I have just come off air after the Vice Presidential debate. |
| 0:08.1 | And Anthony, you're in the spinroom. |
| 0:10.0 | I am in what's left of the spin room. |
| 0:11.8 | They're breaking it down all around me. |
| 0:13.3 | There are people loading up cameras and packing up all the signs that say America |
| 0:17.2 | decides. Well, it's another month before America decides, but we're done with the vice presidential debate and perhaps done with all of the |
| 0:25.0 | debates in this election campaign. |
| 0:27.0 | And at such a busy time the backdrop to tonight is those rockets fired by Iran into Israel, |
| 0:32.0 | the Middle East on the brink and fast |
| 0:34.4 | escalating situation. It was the first question to both the candidates at a moment of |
| 0:38.5 | high stakes for the world. It was just one of many topics that they |
| 0:41.8 | spart over, so who came out on top? |
| 0:43.7 | Welcome to AmeriCast. |
| 0:45.7 | Americast. |
| 0:48.9 | Americast from BBC News. |
| 0:51.3 | There was blood pouring everywhere, and yet I had God on my side. |
| 0:56.3 | So I decided the best way forward |
| 0:58.2 | is the past torch for a new generation. |
| 1:00.1 | You think you just fell out of a coconut tree? |
| 1:03.0 | We're effectively run in this country by a bunch of childless cat ladies. |
| 1:06.5 | You know it, you feel it. |
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