On Tuesday night, vice statesmanlike nominees J.D. Vance and Tim Walz volition statement 1 different for the archetypal and lone clip up of the November statesmanlike election.
Before becoming an Ohio senator, Vance built his illustration arsenic a Silicon Valley task capitalist and writer of “Hillbilly Elegy,” a memoir detailing his beingness arsenic a young big from Middletown, Ohio. In California, Vance connected with tech investors similar the blimpish Peter Thiel who donated millions to his 2022 Senate campaign. Walz, a erstwhile congressperson and existent politician of Minnesota, was not arsenic high-profile of a prime arsenic Vance, but the Kamala Harris run has leveraged his inheritance arsenic a erstwhile teacher, shot coach, and seasoned to entreaty to agrarian America. Walz has inspired overmuch of the Democrats’ predetermination messaging, like calling the GOP “weird.”
Going into Tuesday’s debate, erstwhile president Donald Trump and vice president Kamala Harris are cervix and cervix successful the polls. A caller New York Times mean of nationalist polls showed Harris up 3 points successful nationalist polls, but neither campaigner boasts a meaningful pb successful battleground states similar Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.
Unlike the past ABC statement betwixt erstwhile president Donald Trump and vice president Kamala Harris, the microphones volition stay connected for the duration of the debate. The candidates volition person 2 minutes to reply questions, 2 minutes to respond to their opponents, and 1 infinitesimal for rebuttals.
The statement is scheduled to beryllium broadcast connected CBS unrecorded astatine 9:00pm ET and is expected to tally 90 minutes. Norah O’Donnell, CBS Evening News anchor and managing editor, and Margaret Brennan, Face the Nation moderator and main overseas affairs correspondent, volition moderate. The debate, which takes spot successful New York City, volition aerial connected the CBS News and volition beryllium simulcast connected different networks including CNN, C-SPAN, Fox News, MSNBC, NBC, and PBS. It tin beryllium streamed online connected CBS’s News’s YouTube channel, Paramount+, and C-SPAN’s website.
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