Vance and Walz agree to a vice presidential debate on Oct. 1 hosted by CBS News

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Vance and Walz agree to a vice presidential debate on Oct. 1 hosted by CBS News - Lemmy.World

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Ohio Sen. JD Vance have agreed to debate each other on Oct. 1, setting up a matchup of potential vice presidents as early voting in some states gets underway for the general election.

This will be entertaining

I dunno, these debates scare me. Harris/Walz is surging right now, and Trump/Vance is tanking: this gives Trump/Vance a chance to inject their brand of FUD by throwing shit against the wall and seeing if anything sticks.

For example, I suspect Vance is going to try and nail Walz to the wall with Walz’s 1995 DUI. That’ll be a hard one for him to talk his way out of, it’s ugly and then later his campaign lied about it.

Probably will invite the "both sides" crowd, but if I had to pick between someone who had a DUI charge but more importantly lied about it later...or someone who wrote a prologue and endorsed a fascist manifesto...not really a hard choice there. I mean, in WWII the Allies all had their problems and egomaniacs who could rightly be criticized for some bad decisions. But the other side was Hitler. So...
I don’t recall his campaign lying about the DUI, so I think the commentor is setting up a false problem. What I do know is that Walz gave up drinking afterwards and has been sober since. Thats what you lean into. “I fucked up and faced the problem head on.”
If you have to dig back to 95 to find dirt on somebody and that dirt was a dumb mistake thousands of people make each year and it led to meaningful change, you got a whole lot of nothing. How the hell are you going to turn that into “this guy shouldnt be VP”?