Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance will meet Tuesday for the first and only vice presidential debate scheduled.
The 90-minute CBS 2024 Vice Presidential Debate will air on Tuesday, October 1st at 9pm ET. PBS News coverage begins on NewsHour at 6pm ET, and stay tuned for special analysis after the debate. You can watch live in the player above.
Walz, who is Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, and Vance, who is on the Republican ticket with former President Donald Trump, plan to make their case for their candidacy five weeks before Election Day. . They travel the country to introduce themselves to voters, paying particular attention to the handful of battleground states that will decide the winner.
Who is hosting it?
CBS Evening News anchor Norah O’Donnell and CBS Face the Nation’s Margaret Brennan will host the event. CBS News is broadcasting the debate live on its broadcast networks, and CBS News 24/7 and Paramount+ will live stream it on all available platforms. Simultaneous broadcasting is also possible and will be broadcast on networks such as PBS.
Where is the discussion?
The vice presidential debate is being held in New York City.
New York, which frequently hosts fundraising events for candidates of both parties, is considered a solidly Democratic state in the general election. But Trump, a native New Yorker, insists he has a chance to be in the Republican column this year, holding events in the South Bronx and Long Island, despite losing the state in his past two presidential bids. was held.
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Meanwhile, Harris announced she would skip this year’s Al Smith Dinner, a Catholic Charities charity event typically held in New York City to promote camaraderie and humor. Harris’ campaign said she planned to speak in battleground states instead of attending the Oct. 17 gala, where Trump will be the only speaker.
How are candidates preparing?
Walz and Vance will meet in person for the first time on the biggest stage of their political careers. Both candidates have been preparing for the debate by appointing stand-ins for their opponents.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is playing the role of Vance in preparations for the waltz debate at a downtown Minneapolis hotel, according to a person familiar with the preparations. The person said Buttigieg was chosen because of his excellent communication skills, and the campaign believes Vance would be a formidable opponent.
On the Republican side, Walz and fellow Minnesota Republican Rep. Tom Emmer will replace Democrats in a similar way, according to a person familiar with Vance’s preparations. People familiar with the plans of both candidates spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to discuss preparations privately.
CBS is expected to release further information regarding debate rules in the coming days.
Will there be another presidential or vice presidential debate?
No additional presidential or vice presidential debates are scheduled, but the situation is always subject to change.
After the September 10 presidential debate between Harris and Trump, Harris said she would be open to debating the former president again. She said she would “gladly” accept CNN’s invitation on Oct. 23 and hoped President Trump would do the same.
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But President Trump said it was “too late” that day, less than two weeks before the November election. Early voting has already begun in some states.
But the proposed schedule would roughly match the past two presidential cycles. The last debate of 2020 between Trump and President Joe Biden was on October 22nd, and the third and final debate with Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016 was on October 19th. Ta.
Presidential candidates typically debate multiple times each cycle, but this year is different in several ways. In contrast to the previously bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates, where the rules of debates were negotiated in private, debates are organized on an ad hoc basis by a host network. Mr. Trump and Mr. Biden debated once this year, but Mr. Biden’s dismal performance in their June meeting was said to be one of the factors that led to his decision to end his re-election campaign and select Ms. Harris as the Democratic nominee. It became.
— Meg Kinard, Associated Press
Associated Press writers Chris Megerian and Farnoush Amiri in Washington contributed to this report.
