VP Debate Night: Vance Sanitized Trumpism, Walz Called Himself a Knucklehead
WIRED Politics Lab
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🗓️ 2 October 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Vice Presidential candidates Gov. Tim Walz and Sen. J.D. Vance faced off last night in their first and only debate. Will Vance’s repackaging of Trump’s record on issues like abortion and January 6 land with independents and swing state voters? Where was the fiery Walz who won social media by calling Republicans “weird?” And will any of this really matter on election day? WIRED’s Tim Marchman and Makena Kelly join Leah to discuss.
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| 0:21.6 | I'm Leah Feiger, the senior politics editor at Wired. |
| 0:24.6 | Vice presidential candidates Tim Walls and J.D. Vance faced off last night in their first and only debate. |
| 0:30.6 | Some of what the candidates talked about was pretty predictable. |
| 0:33.6 | We hit several squares of our custom-wired VP debate bingo, reproductive rights, |
| 0:38.6 | climate change, border security, and January 6th. But while J.D. Vance managed to coagently |
| 0:43.7 | sanitize Trumpism, Tim Walls faltered. Will Vance's pitch to independence and swing state voters |
| 0:49.0 | work? What version of the debate is the algorithm going to serve you today? And does any of this |
| 0:53.9 | really matter? |
| 0:55.3 | Joining me to talk about it all is Tim Marchman, Wired's director of science, politics, and |
| 1:00.0 | security. |
| 1:00.8 | Hey, Tim. |
| 1:01.7 | Hey, thanks for having me. |
| 1:03.1 | And Wired senior reporter McKenna Kelly. |
| 1:05.8 | Hey, McKenna, welcome back. |
| 1:07.2 | Hey, it's good to be back. |
| 1:08.3 | Guys, we're recording this right after the debate. |
| 1:11.5 | What did we just see here? |
| 1:12.8 | What were the highlights for you, Tim? |
| 1:14.6 | My overwhelming impression of it was J.D. Vance doing a great job of appealing, |
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