MORNING GLORY: The VP debate is an example of Kamala Harris’s horrible judgment when it comes to picking staff

The statement betwixt the candidates for vice president — GOP nominee Ohio Senator JD Vance and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz — was dominated by Vance, and each but a fistful of hardened partisan pundits hold connected that conclusion. 

Walz wobbled and panicked from the archetypal question — which everyone successful the satellite knew would beryllium astir Iran’s ballistic rocket onslaught connected Israel earlier successful the day. Yet Walz inactive fumbled his response, and it got worse from determination until the CBS moderators invoked the unwritten mercy regularisation for left-wing moderators watching the Democrat melt and tossed Walz immoderate softballs connected J6 astatine the debate’s close, by which clip the net was howling and laughing astatine the Minnesota governor. 

There were 3 important takeaways:  

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First, Vance is simply a superb and calm debater and a reassuring fig connected the nationalist stage. 

Ohio Sen. JD Vance (L) and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz showed a large woody astir the competence of the statesmanlike candidates who chose them.

Second, Walz is not, and helium represents the 1 large determination Vice President Kamala Harris has had to marque since President Joe Biden dropped out. It was a unspeakable decision. Imagine her Cabinet and White House unit if somehow, she wins.  

Third, bequest media is irretrievably breached and cannot beryllium reclaimed from its lurch into rote leftism and utmost partisanship, oregon adjacent pulled backmost to a minimum level of seriousness connected large occasions.  

Do executives astatine these networks — ABC, CBS, CNN and NBC— not spot what has happened? Americans don’t spot the quality divisions astatine the bequest networks. It’s arsenic if those divisions are tally by a operation of fresh-from-campus-demonstration interns and hardened partisans from the Obama years.  

The CBS statement was not, however, arsenic overtly biased against Vance arsenic ABC’s earlier statement was against Trump, but it was inactive very, precise biased against the center-right and blimpish audience. Viewers saw the question acceptable veer rapidly from a satellite situation and the borderline situation to get to the left’s favourite contented of abortion.  

With the satellite tuning successful lone hours aft Iran launched 180 ballistic missiles astatine Israel, the moderators Norah O'Donnell and Margaret Brennan did unfastened with an obligatory circular of questions connected that crisis. But, aft 10 minutes, they plowed connected to a speedy speech connected migration and the Biden-Harris monolithic neglect connected the alleviation efforts successful the aftermath of Hurricane Helene’s savaging of North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia and Virginia successful bid to get to … abortion, which had been discussed astatine magnitude successful the ABC statement and astir which determination are zero mysteries.  

Three rounds of questions connected abortion, really? And 3 rounds marked by the rote framing favored by the hard left? Predictable but inactive shocking.  

The statement ended successful a morass of childcare questions and past the obligatory "Wasn’t January 6th terrible?" questions.  

What a farce. Not 1 question connected China’s immense subject build-up and its menace against Taiwan and the Philippines. Not 1 question connected the Chinese Communist Party spies changeable done our country, including the bureau of New York’s existent and past governor.  Not 1 question connected the Russian penetration of Ukraine.  

The vice-presidential statement didn't spell good for CBS oregon the remainder of the bequest media. CBS News anchors Norah O’Donnell (L) and Margaret Brennan moderated the statement betwixt Republican vice statesmanlike candidate, Sen. JD Vance, R-OH, and Democratic vice statesmanlike candidate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz astatine the CBS Broadcast Center connected October 1, 2024, successful New York City.  (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

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Yes, determination was a speedy dash done the consequences of much than 10 cardinal amerciable immigrants flowing crossed the confederate borderline nether the Biden-Harris regime, but besides a speedy cut-off erstwhile Vance began what was an evidently embarrassing factcheck of the CBS factcheck connected the "legal status" of the Haitians successful Springfield, Ohio. "We person a batch to get to," was the trigger for cutting disconnected thing uncomfortable.  

Walz was asked astir his lying astir his trips to China — benignant of. It was near hanging. A knuckleheaded reply for a knuckleheaded squad of statement organizers. Chinese President Xi Jinping is a benignant of Voldemort for the networks — ne'er to beryllium named — possibly due to the fact that ABC and CBS each person firm ties to companies that indispensable bash concern there?  

Look, immoderate votes were moved by the statement moved toward the GOP due to the fact that Vance hammered that the costs of everything from nutrient to state skyrocketed nether Biden-Harris, gave a speedy tutorial connected wherefore operation costs person soared and frankincense the terms of houses, and repeatedly reminded the assemblage of Harris’s nonaccomplishment successful her occupation arsenic "border czar," portion besides stressing the request for much home vigor production. Tim Walz provided comic relief.  

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The loser wasn’t conscionable Walz though. It was besides CBS, which joined ABC successful a bequest media hallway of shame. When we get backmost to debates successful 4 years, the bully quality is the "debate commission" is already dormant and that, by 2028, the thought of the large networks hosting debates unchecked by center-right moderators volition beryllium arsenic well. The candidates volition telephone connected C-SPAN and find immoderate just moderators. Siri could person done a amended occupation successful our past 2 debates this year.  

What has to beryllium dawning successful the C Suites of networks — if they are astatine each self-aware — is that their merchandise and their endowment are awful, and their audiences person already near oregon volition soon leave. Tuesday nighttime was conscionable the astir caller illustration of why. 

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