On Tuesday evening, vice presidential nominees JD Vance and Tim Walz will debate one another for the primary and solely time forward of the November presidential election.
Earlier than turning into a Republican senator from Ohio, 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 traders just like the conservative Peter Thiel, who donated thousands and thousands to his 2022 Senate marketing campaign. Walz, a former US 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 enchantment 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 vice chairman Kamala Harris are neck and neck within the polls. A latest New York Instances 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 September’s debate between Trump and Harris on ABC, the microphones will stay on at some stage in the talk. The candidates can have two minutes to reply questions, two minutes to answer their opponents, and one minute for rebuttals.
The talk is scheduled to be broadcast on CBS dwell at 9 pm ET and is predicted 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. Along with the CBS broadcast, the talk, which takes place in New York Metropolis, will probably 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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