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Waltz really just needed to say "I goofed." And moved on. That was embarrassing.

Call ing out Vance’s disdain for trump, good

here we go. hold onto your buts.

GOP was setting the bar low for Vance before the debate, and he easily cleared it, so with low expectations, the consensus will be that he was fantastic. Walz was no surprise, he was fine, so I think folks are going to call it a slight Vance win. It won't matter, neither got hit hard enough, it won't move anything.

“Shortage” more like venture capitalism and artificially limiting supply.

They will have the study in 2 weeks. Also, was it done by the evil experts we can’t trust?

We're ~25 minutes in, and so far I would say this debate is close, but Walz is edging out Vance. He's not as polished, but he's coming across as more genuine, and he's directly answering.

Walz nailed the immigration question. Vance is making up lies and using buzzwords.

Vance is now pro-abortion exceptions? Are you kidding me?

Edit: typo

I really hope Walz hammers Vance on women’s rights and LGBTQ issues. Just make that the focus of the whole thing, because those are the issues that will win in the margins of historically nonvoters. I really hope this campaign can finally understand why many voters are disenfranchised, and start finally enfranchising them.

Vast swathes of voters are unaffiliated because nobody cares about them. I know the dem candidates are capable of caring, but they need to show it.

vance. those economic experts have PhD's but they don't have common sense.

First question is about the Middle East and Iran's attack on Israel. Walz is talking about how we need steady leadership for dealing with that, contrasting it with Trump.

Started a little stumbly, but already seems to be finding his footing.

Here we go. Yes, women’s rights.

Walz just dropped the pet eating bomb back on JDs head.

Do people actually believe the Vice President can single handily pass legislation?

I will say, I'm enjoying this debate more than I thought I would, simply because the moderators seem competent and both debaters are behaving like actual adults, even if Vance is a makeup-wearing Yale-bot.

woohoo. vance. lets just say its true carbon emissions cause global warming. lets just say.

It’s great that vance keeps heaping responsibility on Harris for events that happened while she was VP, events which were nothing a VP could affect.

Also, the world was “stable” under trump because tens of millions of people were dying from covid and the world was locked down. If trump wants to take responsibility for the covid virus, go for it.

now vance is trying to make it that its the democrats who don't believe in climate change. His argument is ridiculous given the signature ombudsman bill.

"We're the cleanest economy in the entire world." What the fuck does that mean?

There it is, "I don't know the details. But let me tell you about my kids again"

"You said you wouldn't call me out on my bullshit!" - JD

Dude, you admit to lying about stuff.

Remember that Walz by his own admission is "bad at debates" and that Vance is (an admittedly insane) Yale law school graduate. Walz has done few difficult interviews, almost every mainstream interview Vance has done has been difficult because he has to defend Trump. I just think it's important to have realistic expectations.

I'm honestly not sure what to expect, but I imagine Vance will seem like a more polished politician and debater. He is awkward and supports ugly things, but he doesn't seem to get goaded easily. If Walz can summon his "everydad" persona effectively to make it appear like there's a normal candidate and weird candidate up there and use his knack for a folksy phrase or comeback, that will probably be the "takeaway."

Due to the format, these debates have kind of turned into tiktok video farming events, so let's see who gets the most meme-able sound bytes. Let the games begin.

Not being “used” maybe the wildlife needs it?

Here we go, reproductive rights.

Why always do this crap, where they act like they're not going to let just babble at their leisure and then they just do it anyway.

No one’s answering the question.

woohoo. walz brought up the bill and how its doing the things vance is suggested they are not doing. looking good.

Walz is friends with school shooters? Lol whoops

"I'm rootin' for you." What? Rooting for me to do what?

Walz directly quoting Trump's promises about the wall, including the "Mexico will pay for it."

Springfield Ohio.

Please bring up cats and dogs. You know you want to. Fucking racist.

Walz pointing out that Trump jokes about big storms creating more beachfront property.

exactly . Trump wants issues to run on, not solutions. We just saw this as he tried to manipulate the senate to not fix things so he’d have the problem to rail against and run on. This is anti-American.