White House hopeful JD Vance was the undisputed champion of CBS News' Vice Presidential Debate Tuesday night, according to Fox News' Howard Kurtz.
It was civil. It was cordial. It was substantive. And there’s no question that JD Vance easily won the vice presidential debate. Tim Walz did better than anticipated – perhaps those expectations were deliberately set low – but despite some strong counterpunching, he frequently stumbled. Each man had a mission: to defend his running mate and rough up the opposing presidential candidate. But Vance had a second goal beyond talking up Donald Trump, and that was softening his own image.
There is a caricature of the Ohio senator as a hard-right ideologue with little sympathy for women, as reflected by the famous childless cat ladies comment. But when the subject of abortion came up, he went out of his way to sound sympathetic to the pro-choice side: 'I know a lot of Americans don't agree with everything that I've ever said on this topic.
Walz looked like a man who was happy to survive his turn on the national stage. The debate would have looked very different if Harris had picked Josh Shapiro, given that she’s tied with Trump in Pennsylvania. The Harris campaign has bubble-wrapped Tim Walz, not allowing him to do a single solo interview. JD Vance is constantly doing interviews, podcasts and press conferences, the best kind of preparation for a big debate. And that, in the end, may have been the difference.
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