How and where to watch the Vance-Walz vice-presidential debate?

CBS News has outlined the rules for the debate, which volition beryllium akin to the statesmanlike statement betwixt Vice President Kamala Harris and erstwhile President Donald Trump held earlier this month.

No unrecorded assemblage volition beryllium present, and portion the candidates’ microphones volition stay connected throughout, CBS reserves the close to mute them if necessary.

No committee connected statesmanlike debates this year

This predetermination marks the archetypal clip since 1988 that the Nonpartisan Commission connected Presidential Debates has not been progressive successful organising the debates.

In 2022, the Republican National Committee withdrew from the commission, citing concerns implicit bias against GOP candidates, peculiarly Donald Trump. For the 2024 election, media outlets person been negotiating straight with the campaigns to docket and organise the debates.

When and wherever is the VP debate?

The statement is scheduled for Tuesday, October 1, opening astatine 9 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) and lasting for 90 minutes. It volition instrumentality spot astatine the CBS Broadcast Center successful New York City, a metropolis inactive grappling with a governmental ungraded pursuing the indictment of Democratic Mayor Eric Adams connected bribery and fraud charges.

How to ticker the VP debate

US viewers tin ticker the statement unrecorded connected the CBS News web oregon watercourse it via CBS News 24/7 and Paramount+. The lawsuit volition besides beryllium simulcast connected platforms similar PBS News, C-Span, and Fox News.

How JD Vance is preparing for the VP debate

Senator JD Vance has been preparing for the statement for implicit a month, a root progressive successful the process told CBS News. His mentation has included “murder board” sessions with his woman and advisers, arsenic good arsenic elder Trump advisor Jason Miller.

Vance’s absorption has been studying Walz’s statement benignant and argumentation record, intending to item what helium sees arsenic the Minnesota governor’s “left-wing views.”

Senator JD Vance has been preparing for the statement for implicit a month, a root progressive successful the process told CBS News. (File Photo)

Vance aims to usage the statement arsenic a level to explicate however the Trump-Vance medication would amended the country’s well-being. “We’re studying up arsenic overmuch arsenic we tin connected the issues that substance to the American people,” Vance told reporters past week, arsenic reported by the CBS news.

House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, a chap Minnesotan and Republican, has been lasting successful for Walz during Vance’s mock statement sessions. Emmer, acquainted with Walz, has spent the past period studying his mannerisms and code patterns to assistance Vance prepare. “My occupation was to beryllium capable to play Tim Walz truthful JD Vance knows what he’s going to see,” Emmer told ABC’s This Week.

How Tim Walz is preparing for the VP debate

Governor Tim Walz has been moving with a adjacent squad of advisers to hole for the debate, according to sources acquainted with his preparations. His squad includes individuals who helped Vice President Kamala Harris successful her statement prep, on with long-time aides from his erstwhile gubernatorial campaigns.

Governor Tim Walz has been moving with a adjacent squad of advisers to hole for the debate, according to sources acquainted with his preparations. (File Photo)

For Walz, the statement presents an accidental to present himself to a nationalist audience, arsenic his sanction designation has been mostly constricted to Minnesota. “You’ll perceive maine speech astir issues that interaction Americans, making definite they person the accidental to thrive,” Walz told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow earlier this month. “I’m looking guardant to it. I’ll enactment hard, that’s what I do.”

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is lasting successful for Vance during Walz’s statement prep. Buttigieg, the erstwhile politician of South Bend, Indiana, is adjacent successful property to Vance and besides assisted Harris during her 2020 statement preparations.

How to ticker the VP debate

CBS News 24/7 volition statesman its sum astatine 4 p.m. ET, with the statement itself starting astatine 9 p.m. ET connected October 1. The 90-minute lawsuit volition beryllium streamed connected CBS News 24/7, Paramount+, and CBSNews.com, and simulcast crossed different broadcast and cablegram networks.