On Tuesday evening, vice presidential nominees J.D. Vance and Tim Walz will debate each other for the primary and solely time forward of the November presidential election.
Earlier than changing into an Ohio senator, Vance constructed his profile as a Silicon Valley enterprise capitalist and creator of “Hillbilly Elegy,” a memoir detailing his life as a younger grownup from Middletown, Ohio. In California, Vance related with tech buyers just like the conservative Peter Thiel who donated hundreds of thousands to his 2022 Senate marketing campaign. Walz, a former congressperson and present governor of Minnesota, was not as high-profile of a choose as Vance, however the Kamala Harris marketing campaign has leveraged his background as a former trainer, soccer coach, and veteran to attraction to rural America. Walz has impressed a lot of the Democrats’ election messaging, like calling the GOP “bizarre.”
Going into Tuesday’s debate, former president Donald Trump and vp Kamala Harris are neck and neck within the polls. A latest New York Occasions common of nationwide polls confirmed Harris up three factors in nationwide polls, however neither candidate boasts a significant lead in battleground states like Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.
Not like the final ABC debate between former president Donald Trump and vp Kamala Harris, the microphones will stay on at some point of the controversy. The candidates could have two minutes to reply questions, two minutes to answer their opponents, and one minute for rebuttals.
The controversy is scheduled to be broadcast on CBS reside at 9:00pm ET and is anticipated to run 90 minutes. Norah O’Donnell, CBS Night Information anchor and managing editor, and Margaret Brennan, Face the Nation moderator and chief overseas affairs correspondent, will average. The controversy, which takes place in New York Metropolis, will air on the CBS Information and shall be simulcast on different networks together with CNN, C-SPAN, Fox Information, MSNBC, NBC, and PBS. It may be streamed on-line on CBS’s Information’s YouTube channel, Paramount+, and C-SPAN’s web site.
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