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Vice Presidential Debate TV Review: A Staid & Soon Forgotten Matchup Sees Tim Walz Let JD Vance Off Easy


The biggest highlights from the 2024 vice presidential debate between Tim Walz and J.D. Vance.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s first running mate John Nance Garner famously once declared that the vice president’s office was “not worth a bucket of warm piss.” In the first and only VP debate of the 2024 election, Governor Tim Walz and Senator J.D. Walz likely to drift into political obscurity after serving out the rest of his term if the Democrats come up short, what tonight’s made for radio debate could do is determine Vance’s future in the GOP as either the incumbent vice president in 2028 or the presumptive nominee for the party, or not. Lacking the weight of history on his shoulders that Vance has, Walz tonight appeared to morph back into his 12 years as an agreeable congressman, centering on policy talking points and Trump’s “fickle” leadership on the world stage and his ego.

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