Vice presidential candidates — Republican Ohio Sen. JD Vance and Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz — faced off Tuesday night in the first and only scheduled vice presidential debate of the 2024 presidential election cycle. The stakes are high. Vance and Walz have just 34 days left to make their pitches to voters across the country.
The biggest oddity of VP debates is that, though the running mates are onstage, it’s the presidential nominees who get the lion’s share of attention. Vance and Walz will be onstage to talk up their candidate — and run down the other party’s. Vance has spent months hitting Vice President Kamala Harris on her record on the border and immigration. Walz, meanwhile, has hit Vance and former President Donald Trump on their opposition to reproductive rights, tying them to the highly unpopular Project 2025.
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