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In the Vice-Presidential Debate, Tim Walz Had Better Policy Points, but His Agitated Delivery Rolled Right Off JD Vance’s Reaganesque Smoothness


In the vice-presidential debate, Tim Walz won on policy points, but J.D. Vance was almost Reaganesque

But his other epic lie, and this was the insidious one, was to simply wipe away reality and treat Donald Trump’s presidency as if it were a lost utopia of rising wages and world peace and low inflation and — what about those corporate tax cuts? Right out of the gate, answering the very first question about Iran’s ballistic-missile attack on Israel today, Walz was full of alarm about the things Trump would do in response, but he didn’t enunciate the idea that he and Kamala Harris would keep the world safe. For a long time, before James Carville ever uttered his immortal fortune-cookie secret of all presidential-campaign wisdom, “It’s the economy, stupid,” it was an unquestioned truth in America that the #1 priority for people voting for president was the issue of national security.

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