The numbers 2 of this electoral campaign, JD Vance and Tim Walz, faced each other this Tuesday on the CBS networkearly Wednesday morning in Spain, in the only vice presidential debate in New York. He Ohio Republican SenatorJD Vance, Donald Trump’s number 2, and the Democratic governor of MinnesotaTim Walz, Kamala Harris’ number 2, have debated Iran, the first question of the debate after Tehran’s attack hours before against Israel, immigration, climate change or abortion.
Vance has proven to be more comfortable during the vice presidential debate of these presidential elections, which will be held on November 5. While, Tim Walz has babbled and even confused Iran with Israel. Vance has more experience doing interviews. The Harris-Walz campaign has avoided them. Instead, during the debate, Walz had to confront the two moderators, who asked him about his lies, Margaret Brennan and Norah O’Donnell. It was Brennan who questioned him about why he had said he had been in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen protests in China in 1989.
Here are the five best moments from the vice presidential debate between JD Vance and Tim Walz with 34 days left until the elections. presidential elections on November 5:
- 1. “I’m an airhead”. Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz, governor of Minnesota, was forced to answer questions about his lies and controversial trips to China. Walz has said he was in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square protests in the spring of 1989. But Minnesota Public Radio and other media outlets have noted that Walz did not travel to China until August of that year. “Sometimes I’m an airhead,” Walz explained when he was asked twice why he had lied. «Look, my community knows who I am. They saw where it was. “I will be the first to tell you that I have gone out of my way, and I have tried to do the best I could, but I have not been perfect,” Walz tried to justify himself.
- 2. Vance defended himself against the CBS moderators, who indicated that they were not going to correct the candidates, when they tried to rectify their comments on immigration. «The rules were that you were not going to verify the facts,” Vance reminded them. “And since you’re correcting me, I think it’s important to say what’s really happening,” Vance said, while explaining the immigration process of obtaining legal status.
- 3. “I am friends with school gunmen.” Minnesota Governor Tim Walz became nervous and accidentally declared that “I’m friends with school shooters.” The mistake occurred when Walz was asked about his change of stance on the assault weapons ban, which he previously opposed and now supports. «I sat with those parents of Sandy Hook. I have become friends with school gunmen. “I’ve seen it,” he said, referring to one of the worst shootings in the United States.
- 4. Vance acknowledged that he called Trump “America’s Hitler”. “Sometimes, of course, I disagree with the president, but I have also been extremely open about the fact that I was wrong about Donald Trump. “I was wrong, first of all, because I believed some of the media stories that turned out to be lies,” Vance said.
- 5. Walz complained that Trump only built 2% of the border wall and that Mexico didn’t pay a cent. «“Donald Trump had four years, he had four years to do it, and he promised it would be easy,” Walz said. The Democratic vice presidential candidate criticized Trump for not building a bigger wall on the border, despite the fact that politicians from his party have criticized Trump’s idea: ““He built less than 2% of the wall, and Mexico did not pay a single cent.”
