Vice presidential nominees J.D. Vance and Tim Walls will debate tonight.

I'm Elizabeth Mitchell and this is the Daily Signal top news for Tuesday October 1st. Senator JD Vance in Ohio Republican and Minnesota Governor Tim Walls, a Democrat,

face off in the vice presidential debate Tuesday evening in New York City.

Sources told CBS News that Vance first elected to public office in 2022 has spent more than a month

preparing while maintaining a vigorous campaign schedule. Beyond the issues, Vance and his company

have keyed in on Walls' own policy record and his debate style in previous outings.

Vance's goal, it seems, is to cast the Harris Wall's ticket as far left and incapable of solving the nation's problems, namely

illegal immigration, inflation, and worldwide instability.

So far, Wall's has been on the offensive on the campaign trail. He has called Trump and Vance weird. He's

told the GOP ticket to mind your own business when it comes to abortion and he's

repeatedly claimed that he can't wait to debate Vance.

Nonetheless, a report from CNN claims that Wall's actually warned

running mate Kamala Harris in August that he is a bad debater.

More than a dozen campaign staffers told CNN that the Minnesota Governor is

afraid he will let Harris down.

Walls also has been intensely preparing for the debate with campaign advisors,

several of whom reportedly also were involved in Harris's debate prep.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buda Judge has played Vance opposite walls.

Buda Judge also helped Harris prepare for her vice presidential debate in 2020.

Sources told CNN that Walz's strategy is to brush Vance aside and focus on Trump

because as was recently asserted at a fundraiser in New York City, Vance is selling his soul to

Donald Trump.

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