Factbox-When and where is the Vance-Walz US vice presidential debate? By Reuters
Written by Doina Chiacu
(Reuters) – Democrat Tim Walz and Republican JD (NASDAQ:) Vance will face off next week in the only scheduled debate for a US vice president, a chance for each man to reinforce his partner's message to voters in the weeks before the November 5 election.
Here are some details about the event:
WHEN AND WHERE IS THE CONTROVERSY?
The 90-minute debate, hosted by CBS News, will take place on October 1 at 9 pm ET (0100 GMT on Oct. 2) in New York City, a Democratic stronghold that is the former home of Donald Trump, the Republican president. who is running against Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris.
WHO ARE THE MODERATORS?
The debate will be broadcast on CBS and moderated by CBS “Evening News” anchor Norah O'Donnell and “Face the Nation” host Margaret Brennan.
HOW TO VIEW THE DEBATE?
The event will be broadcast on the CBS network and broadcast live on all platforms where CBS News 24/7 and Paramount+ are available. CBS said it will be available again for broadcast.
The Sept. 10 presidential debate between Harris and Trump on ABC News drew 67 million television viewers.
WHAT ARE THE WORLD'S LAWS?
There will be no audience. The candidates will stand behind the lecterns during the debate. No props or pre-written notes will be allowed on stage. CBS News reserves the right to mute candidate microphones.
EXPECTED FROM WALZ
Walz, the governor of Minnesota, will likely use his “common man” image to try to woo voters, including independents, who view Harris, a former California senator, as too liberal.
Walz, 60, was a congressman who won election in a Republican-leaning state before becoming governor.
As governor, he pushed a progressive agenda that included free school meals, tax cuts for the middle class and expanding paid leave for Minnesota workers.
Walz will likely try to inject Vance, as Harris successfully did in his interview with Trump. Walz has questioned Vance's Midwestern credentials and mocked his 2016 memoir “Hillbilly Elegy” for its portrayal of rural America.
“Like all the normal people I grew up with at heart, JD went to Yale, had his work funded by Silicon Valley billionaires and then wrote a best-selling book condemning that society,” Walz said at his first meeting as Harris' vice president. “Come on! It's not the middle of America.”
Walz, himself a former high school teacher and football coach, dismissed Trump and Vance as “scary and, yes, weird,” — a putdown that spread widely among Democrats.
The Democratic vice president linked Vance to a set of conservative policy proposals known as Project 2025, from which Trump has tried to distance himself.
EXPECTED IN VANCE
Vance, a US senator from Ohio, will have to work hard to avoid defending himself throughout the debate if Walz uses Harris' strategy.
Vance, 40, will likely face questions about his fiery speech and may respond with his usual combative style.
He was criticized for calling Harris and other Democrats in 2021 “a bunch of childless cat women,” and more recently, for spreading false allegations that Haitian immigrants in the Ohio city of Springfield were eating pets.
He also said without evidence that the suspect in the latest attempt to kill Trump was using the bad language of Democrats.
“The big difference between conservatives and liberals is … no one has tried to kill Kamala Harris in the last few months and two people have now tried to kill Donald Trump in the last few months,” Vance said. he reprimanded the White House.
On the campaign trail, Vance portrayed Walz and Harris as libertarians.
He also questioned Walz's portrayal of his military record and his family's fertility problems.
Vance, who served in the Marine Corps and served as a public affairs officer during six months in Iraq, accused Walz of leaving the Army National Guard to avoid deployment to Iraq and falsely claiming to have served in the war.
Walz, who worked for the Guardian for 24 years, retired to run for Congress. He defended his record, but Harris' campaign admitted he misspoke in a 2018 video in which he talked about “the weapons of war he brought into the war.” Walz has never worked in a combat environment.
