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Republican vice statesmanlike nominee Sen. JD Vance of Ohio and Democrat vice statesmanlike nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz faced disconnected Tuesday nighttime successful their first—and only—debate, sparring implicit issues from overseas argumentation to borderline security; termination to clime change; and introducing themselves and their records to the American radical with conscionable 5 weeks to Election Day.
Vice statesmanlike debates are traditionally seen arsenic second-tier, but with erstwhile President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris improbable to statement again earlier voters formed their ballots connected Nov. 5th, the stakes were raised for their moving mates arsenic they attempted to tackle the most important issues facing the nation.
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CBS News anchors Norah O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan moderated the statement successful New York City Tuesday night, which was filled with much substantive argumentation treatment than idiosyncratic jabs, connected a time that began with astir 50,000 unionized dock workers going connected onslaught from Maine to Texas and ended with Iran launching its largest onslaught connected Israel successful history, firing astir 250 ballistic missiles astatine the Jewish State.
The archetypal question for Walz and Vance was whether they would enactment a preemptive onslaught by Israel connected Iran.
A visibly shaky Walz had a pugnacious commencement to the debate, pausing and stumbling implicit his words arsenic helium spoke astir the request for "steady leadership" from the White House. Instead of answering the question, Walz took a changeable astatine Trump.
"What’s cardinal present is that dependable enactment is going to matter," Walz said, pointing to Trump’s statement show against Harris past month. "It’s clear, and the satellite saw it connected that statement signifier a fewer weeks ago, a astir 80-year-old Donald Trump talking astir assemblage sizes is not what we request successful this moment."
But Vance, successful his archetypal answer, defended Trump, saying helium "delivered stableness to the world, and helium did it by establishing effectual deterrence."
"People were acrophobic of stepping retired of line," Vance said. "Donald Trump recognized that for radical to fearfulness the United States, you needed bid done strength. They needed to admit that if they got retired of line, the United States planetary enactment would enactment stableness and bid backmost successful the world."
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As for a preemptive strike, Vance said "it is up to Israel what they deliberation they request to bash to support their state safe."
"And we should enactment our allies wherever they are, erstwhile they’re warring the atrocious guys," Vance said.
Walz fired back, slamming the Trump medication for pulling retired of the Iran Nuclear Deal, saying Iran is "closer to a atomic limb than they were earlier due to the fact that of Donald Trump’s fickle leadership," portion saying Harris is providing "steady leadership."
But Vance fired back.
"You blasted Donald Trump, but who has been the vice president for the past 3 and a fractional years? And the reply is, your moving mate—not mine," Vance said.
Democratic vice statesmanlike nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speaks during a vice statesmanlike statement hosted by CBS News, with Republican vice statesmanlike nominee Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024, successful New York. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Vance, again defending Trump, said helium "consistently made the satellite much secure."
"Gov. Walz tin knock Donald Trump’s tweets, but effective, astute diplomacy and bid done spot is however you bring stableness backmost to a precise breached world," Vance said. "Donald Trump has already done it erstwhile before."
Vance besides urged voters to inquire themselves "when was the past clip that an American president didn’t person a large struggle interruption out?"
"The lone reply is during the 4 years that Donald Trump was president," Vance said.
The statement shifted to the ongoing situation astatine the confederate border—a apical contented for voters.
Vance said helium has already been to the borderline much than "border czar" Kamala Harris, portion touting Trump’s program to unafraid the border.
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But Walz blasted Trump for his alleged efforts to get Republicans to ballot against a borderline bill.
"As soon arsenic it was getting acceptable to walk and really tackle this, Donald Trump said no. told [lawmakers] to ballot against it, due to the fact that it gives him a run issue," Walz said. "What would Donald Trump speech astir if we really did immoderate of these things?"
On the aforesaid topic, moderators asked Vance whether helium and Trump would enactment household separation arsenic portion of Trump's projected "mass deportation" should helium beryllium elected.
"We person 320,000 children that the Department of Homeland Security has efficaciously lost," Vance explained. "Some of them person been enactment trafficking; immoderate of them, hopefully are astatine homes with their families; immoderate of them person been utilized arsenic cause trafficking mules," Vance said. "The existent household separation argumentation successful this state is, unfortunately, Kamala Harris's wide unfastened confederate border. And I'd inquire my chap Americans to retrieve erstwhile she came into office, she said she was going to bash this. Real enactment would beryllium saying, you cognize what, I screwed up. We're going to spell backmost to Donald Trump's borderline policies. I privation that she would bash that. It would beryllium bully for each of us."
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Walz pushed back, saying children person not been utilized arsenic "drug mules," and defending Harris, saying she was lawyer wide successful California and "prosecuted transnational gangs for quality trafficking and drugs."
Walz besides deed Vance implicit claims helium had made astir Haitian migrants successful Springfield, Ohio, saying helium had demonized them.
"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," Vance said.
At that point, moderators tried to close Vance--but the GOP vice statesmanlike nominee pushed back, reminding that the moderators said they would not fact-check the candidates.
The moderators said that galore Haitian residents successful Springfield, Ohio person ineligible impermanent status. Vance jumped successful to "say what's really going on."
While explaining the process and tying it to a Harris-backed process, the moderators spoke implicit him, sarcastically thanking him for "describing the ineligible process" earlier they chopped disconnected his microphone arsenic Tim Walz attempted to reason with him.
"We person truthful overmuch we person to get to, convey you truthful overmuch for explaining the ineligible process," Margaret Brennan said earlier asking her co-moderator to inquire the adjacent question.
As for the contented of abortion, different apical contented for voters this cycle, Walz maintained that helium and Harris are pro-choice, portion Vance said Republicans request to "do truthful overmuch amended of a occupation astatine earning the American People's Trust backmost connected this issue, wherever they frankly, conscionable don't spot us."
"And I deliberation that's 1 of the things that Donald Trump and I are endeavoring to do. I privation america arsenic a Republican Party, to beryllium pro-family successful the fullest consciousness of the word. I privation america to enactment fertility treatments. I privation america to marque it easier for moms to spend to person babies," Vance said. "I privation to marque it easier for young families to spend a location truthful they tin spend a spot to rise that family. And I deliberation there's truthful overmuch that we tin bash connected the nationalist argumentation beforehand conscionable to springiness women much options close now."
PRAIRIE DU CHIEN, WISCONSIN - SEPTEMBER 28: Republican statesmanlike nominee, erstwhile U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to attendees during a run rally astatine the Prairie Du Chien Area Arts Center connected September 28, 2024 successful Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. With 38 days remaining, the erstwhile president continues rallying supporters and campaigning successful battleground plaything states astir the country. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
Vance echoed Trump's presumption of abortion--supporting the Supreme Court's determination to instrumentality the contented of termination backmost to the states, portion supporting exceptions for rape, incest, and beingness of the mother.
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"The due mode to grip this, arsenic messy arsenic ideology sometimes is, is to fto voters marque these decisions," Vance said. "Let the idiosyncratic states marque their termination policy. And I deliberation that's what makes the astir consciousness successful a precise large a precise diverse. And let's beryllium honest, sometimes a very, precise messy and divided country."
Meanwhile, the moderators switched to questions of leadership—with the moderators pressing Walz connected whether helium was really successful China for the Tiananmen Square protests, similar helium claimed.
A visibly tense Walz attempted to explicate the discrepancy, yet saying helium "misspoke" and was not determination until aboriginal that year.
And the question for Vance was astir his past criticisms of Trump.
Vance said, astatine the time, helium disliked Trump due to the fact that helium "believed immoderate of the media stories that turned retired to beryllium dishonest fabrications of his record."
US Vice President and Democratic statesmanlike campaigner Kamala Harris speaks during a run rally successful Douglas, Arizona, connected September 27, 2024. ((Photo by Rebecca NOBLE / AFP) (Photo by REBECCA NOBLE/AFP via Getty Images))
"Donald Trump delivered for the American radical rising wages, rising take-home pay, an system that worked for mean Americans, a unafraid confederate border. A batch of things, frankly, that I didn't deliberation he'd beryllium capable to present on. And yeah, erstwhile you screw up, erstwhile you misspeak, erstwhile you get thing incorrect and you alteration your mind, you ought to beryllium honorable with the American radical astir it," Vance said.
Meanwhile, Vance offered his sympathies to Walz during the conception of the statement focused connected weapon violence, erstwhile helium learned that Walz's lad had witnessed a shooting.
Walz said his 17-year-old lad "witnessed a shooting astatine a assemblage halfway playing volleyball."
"I didn't cognize that your 17-year-old witnessed a shooting. I'm atrocious astir that -- Christ, person mercy," Vance said.
The 2 spoke astir schoolhouse shootings and their plans to lick weapon violence.
"We person to marque the doors locked better. We person to marque the doors stronger. We've got to marque the windows stronger, and of course, we've got to summation schoolhouse assets officers. Because the thought that we tin magically question a wand and instrumentality guns retired of the hands of atrocious guys, it conscionable doesn't acceptable with caller experience," Vance said.
Walz said the speech was a bully commencement but had to spell further.
"Even though they person a precocious weapon ownership complaint successful the country, determination are tenable things that we tin bash to marque a difference. It's not infringing connected your Second Amendment. And the thought to person immoderate of these weapons retired there, it conscionable doesn't marque immoderate sense," helium said.
And connected different apical contented this cycle: democracy.
Vance was pushed connected his past comments, successful which helium said helium would not person voted to certify the 2020 predetermination results connected Jan. 6, 2021.
Vance fired backmost astatine the assertion that Trump could airs a "threat to democracy," saying that helium believes "we really bash person a menace to ideology successful this country."
"But unfortunately, it's not the menace to ideology that Kamala Harris and Tim Walz privation to speech about. It is the menace of censorship. It's Americans casting speech lifelong friendships due to the fact that of disagreements implicit politics. It's large exertion companies silencing their chap citizens," Vance said.
Walz redirected the treatment backmost to Jan. 6, 2021, blasting Trump and Republicans for allegedly denying the events of that day.
"I volition archer you this, that erstwhile this is over, we request to shingle hands this predetermination and the victor needs to beryllium the winner. This has got to stop. It's tearing our state apart," Walz said.
But Vance replied, saying it is "really 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."
"As we person done for 250 years successful this country, we are going to shingle hands aft this statement and aft this election. And of course, I anticipation that we win, and I deliberation we're going to win," Vance said. "But if Tim Walz is the adjacent vice president, he'll person my prayers. He'll person my champion wishes and he'll person my assistance whenever helium wants it."
But Vance reminded Americans 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," Vance said. "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."
As the statement came to a close, Vance and Walz some promised voters a caller absorption for the United States.
"Kamala Harris is bringing america a caller mode forward," Walz said. "She's bringing america a authorities of joy. She's bringing existent solutions for the mediate class. And she's centering you astatine the bosom of that, each the portion asking everyone, articulation this movement. Make your voices heard."
Vance besides gave a connection of alteration to the voters.
"We request change. We request a caller direction. We request a president who has already done this erstwhile earlier and did it well. Please ballot for Donald Trump," Vance said. "And whether you ballot for maine oregon ballot for Tim Walz, I conscionable privation to accidental I'm truthful arrogant to beryllium doing this and I'm rooting for you.
Walz came into the statement with amended canvass numbers than Vance.
According to the latest Fox News nationalist poll, Walz was somewhat supra h2o with a 43% favorable standing and a 40% unfavorable rating. Vance stood successful antagonistic territory, astatine 38%-50% favorable/unfavorable.
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Heading into the debate, Vance had been precise talkative, sitting for scores of interviews and taking plentifulness of questions from reporters connected the run trail.
Both moving mates get close backmost connected the run way connected Wednesday successful 2 of the cardinal 7 battleground states that volition apt find whether Harris oregon Trump win President Biden successful the White House.
Vance holds run events successful Auburn Hills and Marne, Michigan. And Walz takes portion successful a run autobus circuit plaything done parts of cardinal Pennsylvania which kicks disconnected astatine the airdrome successful Harrisburg, the authorities capital.
Brooke Singman is simply a governmental analogous and newsman for Fox News Digital, Fox News Channel and FOX Business.
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