Final (?) Debate thread before the election in 35 days.

Debate begins at 9 PM Eastern, 6 PM Pacific and runs 90 minutes.

Vice Presidential debates are always tricky since nobody has voted for Vice President in living memory.

Expect Vance to attack Walz on his military service.

Expect Walz to attack Vance on the whole ā€œimmigrants eating cats and dogsā€ thing.

Expect Vance to attack Walz on being an assistant coach, at best.

Expect Walz to roll out ā€œWeird!ā€ at least once.

CBS has announced the burden of fact checking will be on the candidates themselves.

https://apnews.com/article/cbs-debate-vice-president-fact-check-7a3b31c98ab092dd44915df57a359d10

How to watch here:

https://apnews.com/article/cbs-debate-vice-president-fact-check-7a3b31c98ab092dd44915df57a359d10

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Edit Impressive how a debate can go when one participant doesnā€™t have mental health issues! Thanks for coming everybody!

  • WoahWoah@lemmy.world
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    Walz seems really nice. And the VP doesnā€™t usually matter that much. But it sure would be nice if that was Buttigieg or Shapiro up there. Buttigieg loves sparring with Republicans. He is a great attack dog, but thats not really what Walzā€™s role seems to be, and thatā€™s OK, but considering the election is a coin flip, I just want every fraction of a percent of support Harris can get.

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      2 days ago

      In this case the VP matters, because for all the ā€˜Biden is too oldā€™ talk, trump is only a couple years younger, and he could easily drop dead during a next term, which would leave us with president Vance.

      eta: and the reason Buttigieg or Shapiro werenā€™t chosen was because, according to reports, an extreme life colonoscopy was performed on anyone under consideration, because trumpā€™s camp would also do that and capitalise on anything they found. Walz passed all those tests because heā€™s squeaky clean. In this election, thatā€™s pretty important. So far, that strategy has worked, and every straw trumpā€™s team has grasped at has blown up in their face. Weā€™ll soon see if this debate changes that (I doubt it).