On Tuesday night, vice presidential nominees J.D. Vance and Tim Walz will debate one another for the first and only time ahead of the November presidential election.
Before becoming an Ohio senator, Vance built his profile as a Silicon Valley venture capitalist and author of “Hillbilly Elegy,” a memoir detailing his life as a young adult from Middletown, Ohio. In California, Vance connected with tech investors like the conservative Peter Thiel who donated millions to his 2022 Senate campaign. Walz, a former congressperson and current governor of Minnesota, was not as high-profile of a pick as Vance, but the Kamala Harris campaign has leveraged his background as a former teacher, football coach, and veteran to appeal to rural America. Walz has inspired much of the Democrats’ election messaging, like calling the GOP “weird.”
Going into Tuesday’s debate, former president Donald Trump and vice president Kamala Harris are neck and neck in the polls. A recent New York Times average of national polls showed Harris up three points in national polls, but neither candidate boasts a meaningful lead in battleground states like Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.
Unlike the last ABC debate between former president Donald Trump and vice president Kamala Harris, the microphones will remain on for the duration of the debate. The candidates will have two minutes to answer questions, two minutes to respond to their opponents, and one minute for rebuttals.
The debate is scheduled to be broadcast on CBS live at 9:00pm ET and is expected to run 90 minutes. Norah O’Donnell, CBS Evening News anchor and managing editor, and Margaret Brennan, Face the Nation moderator and chief foreign affairs correspondent, will moderate. The debate, which takes place in New York City, will air on the CBS News and will be simulcast on other networks including CNN, C-SPAN, Fox News, MSNBC, NBC, and PBS. It can be streamed online on CBS’s News’s YouTube channel, Paramount+, and C-SPAN’s website.
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