J.D. Vance & Tim Walz Face Off In VP Debate Tonight, Details Here

Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will take part in the only vice presidential debate Tuesday night in New York City.

The debate starts at 9 p.m. ET and will last 90 minutes.

“The debate, hosted by CBS News, is taking place at the network’s Manhattan headquarters,” NBC News noted.

Per CBS News:

Both campaigns agreed to a 90-minute debate with two four-minute commercial breaks. Campaign staff are not allowed to interact with the candidates during the breaks.

There will be no audience — a measure also implemented during the two previous presidential debates.

At the event’s start, the moderators will introduce the candidates in order of the incumbent party, with Walz coming first. There will be no opening statements.

Walz will stand behind the lectern on the left side of the stage, which will be on the right side of viewers’ screens. Vance will be at the podium on the right side of the stage, but the left side of screens.

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Candidates, who cannot bring pre-written notes or props on stage, will have two minutes to answer a question and two minutes to respond. They will be allowed one minute for rebuttals. At the moderators’ discretion, candidates may get an additional minute to continue a discussion.

Unlike the presidential debates, a candidate’s microphone will not be muted when their opponent is speaking, but CBS News reserves the right to turn off the microphones.

Vance won a virtual coin toss on Thursday, opting to go second with his closing statement. Each candidate will have two minutes for their closing remarks.

No topics or questions will be shared with the campaigns in advance.

CBS will start airing debate coverage at 8 p.m. ET.

“The debate can be streamed on the free CBS News app on your connected TV or smartphone, on Paramount+, and all platforms where CBS News 24/7 is available, including CBSNews.com and YouTube,” CBS News added.

“Kamala Harris and Tim Walz’s campaign bus was met by a sea of Trump and Vance supporters as it arrived in New York City ahead of Walz’s debate against JD Vance,” WLTReport noted.

“Videos on X show dozens of Trump and Vance supporters flocking the streets near CBS Headquarters,” the outlet added.

WATCH:

NYC greets Tim Walz ahead of the VP Debate pic.twitter.com/ciHwgYlHcq

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 1, 2024

JUST IN: New Yorkers welcome the Harris-Walz bus to CBS. New York is Trump Country! pic.twitter.com/WDY8BHXc1R

— Olivia Ingrassia (@OliviaIngrassia) October 1, 2024

NBC News reports:

Former President Donald Trump is traveling to Wisconsin for remarks at a pair of campaign events in Wanuakee in the afternoon and Milwaukee in the evening. Second gentleman Doug Emhoff also will be campaigning in Milwaukee in the early evening.

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are in Washington receiving briefings on Iran’s ballistic missile attack on Israel. Read live coverage of the attack here.

Both Biden and Harris announced separately that they will be traveling tomorrow to areas ravaged by Hurricane Helene.

Vance is feeling confident heading into the debate, POLITICO noted.

JD Vance doesn’t think he needs debate prep to defeat Tim Walz@Reporter_Mia https://t.co/pe4C57BoGg

— Nicholas Wu (@nicholaswu12) October 1, 2024

From POLITICO:

Ahead of his first and likely only national debate of the presidential cycle, JD Vance prepared for the event at his home in Cincinnati and virtually on Zoom. He recruited Republican Rep. Tom Emmer of Minnesota to play his opponent in mock sessions. And he brought in Donald Trump’s campaign strategist Jason Miller and his own wife, Usha, to help, people familiar with the debate said.

But in his words, he doesn’t need to get ready.

“We have well developed views on public policy so we don’t have to prepare that much,” Vance said in a Teamsters press call on Wednesday morning. “We feel a lot more confident and frankly, you don’t have to prepare if you don’t have to hide what you say.”

His statement was in many ways exactly why Republicans — and especially Trump — continue to support him: He’s pithy, plainspoken and gets spirited with the media. And unlike Trump, he stays relentlessly on message and is known as an agile debater.

“It will be the first time a lot of Americans see him, and I think they’re going to be very impressed with him, especially answering questions in that format,” said Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, a close ally to Vance who was also in the running to be Trump’s running mate. “I mean, he’s been answering the questions he’s going to get asked at that debate now for years, certainly in his whole time in the Senate and as a public figure.”

Vance is only in his second campaign, after his successful run for Ohio Senate in 2022. But the Yale Law School alumni and author of “Hillbilly Elegy” has already gained a reputation as a strong communicator and policy whisperer for the Trump campaign, as well as the torchbearer for the MAGA movement. In addition to regularly taking media questions for the campaign, he often joins cable news networks and Sunday shows — sometimes before unfriendly questioners — to defend Trump’s policies.

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