Top 5 clashes between Vance and Walz during debate showdown: 'Your mics are cut'

Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Republican Ohio Sen. JD Vance took the aforesaid signifier for their archetypal and lone vice statesmanlike statement this predetermination rhythm connected Tuesday evening, erstwhile the brace had a fistful of fiery clashes implicit apical elector concerns. 

The CBS News Vice Presidential Debate showcased the 2 vice statesmanlike candidates' platforms connected issues specified arsenic the ongoing warfare raging successful the Middle East, termination laws and their respective tickets' economical records. Amid the 90-minute debate, Vance and Walz had a fistful of clashes, including moderators turning disconnected Vance's microphone. 

NEW YORK - OCTOBER 01: Republican vice statesmanlike candidate, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), and Democratic vice statesmanlike candidate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, enactment successful a statement astatine the CBS Broadcast Center connected October 1, 2024 successful New York City. This is expected to beryllium the lone vice statesmanlike statement of the 2024 wide election. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) (Getty Images)

Vance fact-checks the information checkers, loses mic privilege 

VANCE, WALZ SPAR OVER ABORTION AND IMMIGRATION IN FIRST AND ONLY VP DEBATE 

The CBS debate's rules included leaving microphones connected for some candidates nary substance who was speaking, breaking from the 2 statesmanlike debates this rhythm that muted microphones erstwhile a campaigner was not speaking. The outlet, however, reserved the close to crook the microphones disconnected if they felt it was warranted. 

Moderators Margaret Brennan and Norah O'Donnell did mute the brace Tuesday erstwhile Vance spoke up to kick that the moderators were trying to fact-check him connected his remarks regarding amerciable immigrants successful Springfield, Ohio. 

"The radical that I'm astir disquieted astir successful Springfield, Ohio, are the American citizens who person had their lives destroyed by Kamala Harris's unfastened border. It is simply a disgrace," Vance said referring to astir migration issues successful a metropolis successful his location state.

After Vance and Walz some delivered responses regarding immigration, Brennan told viewers that Springfield "does person a ample fig of Haitian migrants who person ineligible status, impermanent protected status."

Vance took issues with the on-air "fact-check" earlier helium was muted. 

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"The rules were that you were not going to fact-check, and since you’re information checking me, I deliberation it’s important to accidental what’s really going on," Vance said. "So there's an exertion called the CBP. One app wherever you tin spell connected arsenic an amerciable migrant, use for asylum oregon use for parole and beryllium granted ineligible presumption astatine the question of a Kamala Harris unfastened borderline wand. That is not a idiosyncratic coming in. Applying for a greenish paper and waiting for 10 years."

Moderators tried to quiescent Vance earlier cutting his and Walz's mics. 

"Gentlemen, the assemblage can't perceive you due to the fact that your mics are cut," Margaret Brennan said. "We person truthful overmuch we privation to get to."

Walz forced to close grounds connected whether helium was successful China for the Tiananmen Square protests

Walz was forced to reply questions regarding his travel to China during Tuesday night’s debate. 

Walz has said helium was successful Hong Kong during the deadly Tiananmen Square protests successful the outpouring of 1989. Minnesota Public Radio and different media outlets, however, are present reporting that Walz really did not question to China until August of that year. 

CBS News moderator Margaret Brennan asked Walz to explicate the discrepancy. 

WALZ FORCED TO CORRECT RECORD ON WHETHER HE WAS IN CHINA FOR THE TIANANMEN SQUARE PROTESTS

"Look, I grew up successful a tiny agrarian Nebraska town, a municipality that you rode your motorcycle with your buddies till the streetlights travel on, and I’m arrogant of that service," a visibly shaky Walz said. "I joined the National Guard astatine 17, worked connected household farms and past I utilized the GI measure to go a teacher." 

"I came backmost location and past started a programme to instrumentality young radical there. We would instrumentality hoops teams. We would instrumentality shot teams. We would instrumentality dancers. And we would spell backmost and distant to China," Walz said, noting the trips were "to effort and learn." 

"Look, my assemblage knows who I am. They saw wherever I was at. I volition beryllium the archetypal to archer you I person poured my bosom into my community, and I’ve tried to bash the champion I can, but I’ve not been perfect," Walz continued. 

"And I’m a knucklehead astatine times."

Brennan pushed back, reminding Walz of the question and again asking him to explicate the discrepancy. 

"All I said connected this was, arsenic I got determination that summertime and misspoke connected this," Walz said. "So, I volition conscionable — that's what I've said. So, I was successful Hong Kong and China during the ideology protests, went successful and, from that, I learned a batch of what needed to beryllium successful in governance." 

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Walz and Vance conflict implicit termination laws 

Walz claimed during the statement that a pistillate successful Georgia apt died owed to the state's "restrictive" termination laws after Roe v. Wade was overturned, sparking a clash with Vance. 

"There's a young pistillate named Amber Thurman. She happened to beryllium successful Georgia, a restrictive state. Because of that, she had to question a agelong region to North Carolina to effort and get her care. Amber Thurmond died successful that travel backmost and forth. The information of the substance is, however tin we arsenic a federation accidental that your beingness and your rights, arsenic basal arsenic the close to power your ain body, is determined connected geography," Walz said during the statement portion sparring with Vance connected termination laws. 

"There's a precise existent accidental that if Amber Thurman lived successful Minnesota, she would beryllium live today. That's wherefore the restoration of Roe v. Wade," helium said. 

Walz's remarks travel aft ProPublica published an nonfiction past period blaming the deaths of 2 Georgia women, Amber Nicole Thurman and Candi Miller, connected the overturning of Roe v. Wade and the state’s caller termination limits aft the women received chemically induced abortions successful 2022. 

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Georgia's heartbeat instrumentality states that "no termination shall beryllium performed if the unborn kid has a detectable quality heartbeat but successful the lawsuit of a aesculapian exigency oregon medically futile pregnancy."

Vance changeable backmost that a Minnesota termination instrumentality does not necessitate doctors to prevention a babe who survives an abortion.

"First of all, governor, I hold with you, Amber Thurman should inactive beryllium alive, and determination are a batch of radical who should inactive beryllium alive. And I surely privation that she was. And possibly you're escaped to disagree with maine connected this and explicate this to me. But arsenic I work the Minnesota instrumentality that you signed into law, the statute that you signed into law, it says that a doc who presides implicit an termination wherever the babe survives, the doc is nether nary work to supply lifesaving attraction to a babe who survives a botched precocious word abortion," helium said. 

VANCE, WALZ SPAR ON IMMIGRATION DURING VP DEBATE: BEEN TO THE BORDER 'MORE THAN OUR BORDER CZAR'

"That's not true," Walz said. 

"Choice oregon not enactment that is fundamentally barbaric," Vance continued. 

Walz, Vance spar connected immigration: Been to the borderline 'more than our borderline czar'

The brace besides sparred implicit migration a fistful of times passim the debate, including Vance slamming Vice President Kamala Harris for her handling of immigration. 

"First of all, the gross bulk of what we request to bash to the confederate borderline is conscionable empowering instrumentality enforcement to bash their job," Vance said during a treatment connected the Haitian migrant surge successful Springfield, Ohio, and migration overall. 

"I've been to the confederate borderline much than our ‘border czar’ Kamala Harris has been. And it's really heartbreaking due to the fact that the Border Patrol agents, they conscionable privation to beryllium empowered to bash their job."

Vance continued by saying that, "of course, further resources would help," but that the contented is mostly astir the Biden medication not empowering instrumentality enforcement to accidental "if you effort to travel crossed the borderline illegally, you've got to enactment successful Mexico" and "go backmost done due channels."

VANCE RIPS WALZ ON ECONOMY, SAYS HE'S FORCED TO 'PRETEND' TRUMP DIDN'T LOWER INFLATION

"Now, Gov. Walz brought up the assemblage of Springfield, and he's precise disquieted astir the things that I've said successful Springfield," Vance said. "Look, successful Springfield, Ohio, and successful communities each crossed this country, you've got schools that are overwhelmed. You've got hospitals that are overwhelmed. You've got lodging that is wholly unaffordable due to the fact that we brought successful millions of amerciable immigrants to vie with Americans for scarce homes.

Walz repeatedly argued Trump unopen down a Senate migration measure earlier this twelvemonth that helium believes would person made strengthened borderline security.

"It is instrumentality enforcement that asked for the bill," Walz said. "They helped trade it. They're the ones that supported it. It was due to the fact that they cognize we request to bash this. Look, this contented of continuing to bring this up, of not dealing with it, of blaming migrants for everything.

"On housing, we could speech a small spot astir Wall Street speculators buying up housing and making them little affordable, but it becomes a blame. Look, this measure besides gives the wealth indispensable to adjudicate. I hold it should not instrumentality 7 years for an asylum assertion to beryllium done."

"This measure gets it done successful 90 days. Then, you commencement to marque a quality successful this, and you commencement to adhere to what we know, American principles. I don't speech astir my religion a lot, but Matthew 25:40 talks astir to the slightest amongst us, you bash unto me. I deliberation that's existent of astir Americans. They simply privation bid to it. This measure does it. It's funded. It's supported by the radical who bash it, and it lets america support our dignity astir however we dainty different people."

Vance underscores menace of ‘censorship'

The brace of vice statesmanlike candidates besides sparred implicit the threat of censorship connected Tuesday, arsenic Walz pressed Vance connected the 2020 predetermination and Jan. 6, 2021. 

"It's truly affluent for Democratic leaders to accidental that Donald Trump is simply a unsocial menace to ideology erstwhile helium peacefully gave implicit powerfulness connected January the 20th, arsenic we person done for 250 years successful this country. We are going to shingle hands aft this statement and aft this election," Vance said aft Walz cited Jan. 6, erstwhile Trump supporters breached the U.S. Capitol. 

"We person to retrieve that for years successful this country, Democrats protested the results of elections. Hillary Clinton successful 2016 said that Donald Trump had the predetermination stolen by Vladimir Putin due to the fact that the Russians bought similar $500,000 worthy of Facebook ads. This has been going connected for a agelong time, and if we privation to accidental that we request to respect the results of the election, I'm connected board. But if we privation to say, arsenic Tim Walz is saying, that this is conscionable a occupation that Republicans person had, I don't bargain that, governor," Vance continued. 

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Walz countered that "Jan. 6 was not Facebook ads."

"This thought that there's censorship to halt radical from doing, threatening to termination someone, threatening to bash something, that's not that's not censorship. Censorship is publication banning. We've seen that. We've seen that brought up," helium continued. 

Walz continued that Trump has repeatedly claimed helium won the 2020 statesmanlike election. 

"Did helium suffer the 2020 election?" Walz asked Vance of Trump during the past predetermination cycle. 

"Tim, I'm focused connected the future," Vance replied. "Did Kamala Harris censor Americans from speaking their caput successful the aftermath of the 2020 Covid situation?"

"That is simply a damning non-answer," Walz said. "I'm beauteous shocked by this. He mislaid the election. This is not a debate, it's not thing anyplace different than successful Donald Trump's world."

"It's a damning non-answer for you to not speech astir censorship," Vance changeable back. 

JD Vance and Tim Walz debated connected Tuesday nighttime successful New York City with conscionable weeks until the election.  (Reuters)

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The statement was the archetypal and lone statement betwixt the brace and was held precisely 5 weeks earlier Election Day. 

Fox News Digital's Andrew Mark Miller, Brooke Singman, and Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report. 

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