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In recent weeks, Tim Walz’s team has tried to dampen expectations of his debate with rival JD Vance. Now we know why.
Elected as vice president of the Democratic Alliance and Gov. Walz of Minnesota did not play in a disastrous way on the debate stage, but he was clearly eliminated by Sen. Vance from Ohio. Trump’s supporters who asked about the qualifications of the young senator from Ohio for the position of the president of the country, or asked why the former president chose him to be his supporter, slept better on Tuesday night. He was sharp, engaging, and politically savvy. Most importantly, Vance completely overcame the media’s dislike of him by being compassionate, respectful and likable.
Vance has had the opportunity to hold a number of media interviews in recent weeks; he was ready and tested. In contrast, Walz has barely held an off-the-record meeting with the media since becoming the Democrats’ vice president; his inability to go beyond talking points and delve into policy was not surprising.
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Walz spent much of the debate talking about initiatives he says have been successful in Minnesota, such as paid family leave. All he had to do on Tuesday night was open a case against his colleague Vice President Kamala Harris.
Over and over again during the nearly two-hour debate, Vance asked a very important question, one that Trump also asked during his debate. Harris has been in the White House for the past three and a half years – why hasn’t he moved forward with the policies he now claims will solve the nation’s problems?
Like the ABC presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, CBS news executives shamed themselves for openly favoring the Democratic candidate. In addition, CBS’s Margaret Brennan and Norah O’Donnell touched on the school’s grim tone, eager to moderate what was an extremely structured debate.
Their questions reflected well-worn Democrat priorities (climate change, abortion) and largely avoided topics that would play well with Vance, such as crime. O’Donnell challenged the senator to Trump who once called climate change a “hoax” and then unequivocally asserted that “the overwhelming consensus is that the climate is changing.”
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In addition, as they said they would not vet the candidates, the two women stepped in more than once to ask for a response from Vance, while doing so with Walz.
Unfortunately for the Minnesota governor, that one question he was flipping was a disaster. Asked why he lied about being in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, Walz presented a salad that would have made Kamala Harris proud, talking about his experiences while traveling in China. Asked again to answer why he was not truthful, Walz did not speak clearly and looked surprised. Actually, he was caught in a lie. Since he has a history of spinning lies about his past, and especially about his military rank, this didn’t help.
Vance, like Walz, was meant to challenge his running mate’s case, and he did. While the president and Walz mocked Trump’s claim during the presidential debate that he had a “strategic mind” about health care, Vance said Trump didn’t have a plan — he had a record. More than once during the night he reminded the audience that during the Trump presidency inflation, the border was closed and the world was at peace.
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When moderator Margaret Brennan pushed Vance to explain why Trump abandoned the Iran nuclear deal, thereby allowing the terrorist regime to accelerate its efforts to build a nuclear weapon, Vance noted that over the past three years Harris and Biden have been there. charge. He correctly pointed out that they helped rebuild Iran’s ability to fight a war by not enforcing Trump’s sanctions, thus allowing the mullahs to increase their income by $100 billion. As Iran recently attacked Israel with 180 missiles, Vance’s reference to the Reagan-Trump peace doctrine was strongly felt.
While Walz repeated Harris’ vague promises to make life better for middle-class families, Vance reminded the audience that take-home pay has risen under Trump and inflation has been low, while under Harris, prices on everything from food to housing have risen even higher. 20%. When Walz said economists supported Harris’ plan over Trump’s, Vance responded that Trump didn’t have Ph.Ds on his team, he was sane.
While Walz accused Trump of wanting to impose tariffs on imports, which would serve as a new tax on Americans, Vance congratulated President Joe Biden for keeping the former president’s tariffs on China in place, easing the issue.
Over and over again during the nearly two-hour debate, Vance asked a very important question, one that Trump also asked during his debate. Harris has been in the White House for the past three and a half years – why hasn’t he moved forward with the policies he now claims will solve the nation’s problems?
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Vance clearly won the border dispute, noting that Harris had bragged for three years about rolling back all of Trump’s restrictions. When Brennan challenged Vance on how Trump would handle separating families while deporting them, Vance referred to a shocking report that the Department of Homeland Security has lost track of more than 320,000 children brought across the border illegally — a sad and tragic situation that has led to. from Harris’ open border.
No wonder the debate raged on the issue of abortion. Vance criticized a Minnesota law signed by Walz that does not require a doctor to do everything necessary to care for a child who survives a late-term abortion. Walz objected to the casting, but Vance was right. Walz, meanwhile, accused Vance of previously supporting a 15-week national ban. Vance explained that he shares Trump’s view that states are now responsible for setting regulations.
The candidates clashed on other topics, and swiped the expectations of each other’s candidates, but both kept their peace and even agreed that on some issues, like school safety, they might find common ground. Especially given the Harris-Walz strategy of avoiding scrutiny and trying to hide their progressive agenda, it was an unusually useful event for the American electorate.
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The winner of the night, without a doubt, was JD Vance. Will it matter? After all, many argue that no one is voting for VP. But the voters are telling the voters that they have had enough of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.
Now they know more, and based on Tuesday night’s performance, Vance may have won over a few people. Since the race is a dead heat, everything counts.
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