VP Debate: Vance and Walz Agree to Disagree?
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🗓️ 2 October 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance met Tuesday for the first and only vice presidential debate ahead of the November election. It’s also likely to be the final debate for both campaigns, making it one of the last big moments before voters decide who will take over the White House. The two men kept things pretty civil over their 90 minutes on stage, and neither committed the kind of egregious error that could hurt their respective tickets. WAD host Jane Coaston recaps the highlights with longtime Washington reporter Todd Zwillich. Later in the show, she’s joined by ‘Pod Save America’ co-host Tommy Vietor for more analysis.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, October 2nd. |
| 0:03.6 | I'm Jane Kosten. |
| 0:04.6 | And I'm Todd Zwillick. |
| 0:05.6 | And this is What Today, the show where God Help Us. |
| 0:08.9 | We watched last night's Vice Presidential Debate |
| 0:11.3 | so you didn't have to. On today's show, JD Vance does his impression of a normal guy who's never |
| 0:26.0 | said he's proud of lying to everyone in the country. Plus, Tim Waltz knows who |
| 0:30.6 | won the 2020 election, but is he alone? |
| 0:34.0 | We're recapping last night's vice presidential debate between Ohio Senator J.D. Vance and |
| 0:38.3 | Minnesota Governor Tim Waltz. |
| 0:40.3 | Now, generally speaking, the rule of thumb for vice presidential debates is do no harm to your respective |
| 0:46.1 | campaign. |
| 0:47.1 | And by that measure, I think both men largely succeeded. |
| 0:50.6 | It was a tense 90 minutes, way more focused on policy than the two previous presidential debates, but did you think there was a winner Todd? |
| 0:59.7 | I don't know. I guess JD Vance would have won on points but then like if you just |
| 1:05.9 | scratch the first two skin cells off of that I mean so much of it was complete not |
| 1:12.1 | only falsehoods but really cogent and coherent in ways that the |
| 1:16.2 | candidate Donald Trump never has been never will be and can't be doesn't have the |
| 1:20.4 | ability to be. Yeah I was really interested and I'm interested to hear what your thoughts. |
| 1:24.3 | Like, what was the benchmark of success here? |
| 1:27.0 | Because it really seemed to be, for lack of a better term, |
| 1:30.5 | don't screw up or throw up on television and neither of them did so so I was trying to |
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