I still believe that Vance missed some key points. One was when they once again prattled on about not believing that the 2020 election was perfect.
He should have shot back at Walz if he demanded the same from Democrats when they declared that Trump was illegitimate and tried to stop the electoral vote count for him.
Vance crushes Walz, debate was over in first minute
VANCE CRUSHES WALZ, DEBATE WAS OVER IN FIRST MINUTE. New York — “I guess we now know the story about Walz being nervous and a bad debater wasn’t an expectation-lowering exercise — it was a leak,” said one top Republican leaving the just-concluded vice presidential debate between Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) and Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) late Tuesday night. Indeed, when the debate began at 9 p.m., it was clear from its first moments that Walz was just what the stories had said — nervous and a bad debater. It was also clear that Vance was going to win the debate decisively.
Chris LaCivita, the co-manager of the Trump campaign, said he could tell what was happening almost immediately. When I asked what the key moment of the debate was, LaCivita quickly answered, “The first 20 seconds.” Why was that? “Because the first question out of the gate is dealing with leadership on the world stage, everything going on in the Middle East, and Tim Walz comes up on stage and he’s completely rattled. He does not project the image of the type of leadership that you want in the White House. So right then and there framed the whole thing.”
Yes, it did. Walz’s shaky start cast a pall over the night for Democrats, and even when he got better, which he did, Walz still wasn’t as good as Vance. The Republican out-argued Walz on world crises, on the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, and on immigration, and he fought him to at least a draw on gun violence.
Then there were the moments when Walz inexplicably beat himself. When co-moderator Margaret Brennan asked about Walz’s oft-repeated tale of having been in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square uprising in 1989, when in fact he was in Nebraska, Walz went into a long song and dance about being from a small town. And then he said, “I’ve not been perfect, and I’m a knucklehead at times.” And then he said that he is given to talking too much. “I will talk a lot. I will get caught up in the rhetoric,” Walz said. In that moment, he did an excellent job of arguing that he is too emotional to be a heartbeat away from the presidency. And then, finally, when prodded by Brennan, he admitted that he “misspoke” about Hong Kong. Why didn’t he just do that to begin with?
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He should have shot back at Walz if he demanded the same from Democrats when they declared that Trump was illegitimate and tried to stop the electoral vote count for him.
Vance crushes Walz, debate was over in first minute
VANCE CRUSHES WALZ, DEBATE WAS OVER IN FIRST MINUTE. New York — “I guess we now know the story about Walz being nervous and a bad debater wasn’t an expectation-lowering exercise — it was a leak,” said one top Republican leaving the just-concluded vice presidential debate between Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) and Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) late Tuesday night. Indeed, when the debate began at 9 p.m., it was clear from its first moments that Walz was just what the stories had said — nervous and a bad debater. It was also clear that Vance was going to win the debate decisively.
Chris LaCivita, the co-manager of the Trump campaign, said he could tell what was happening almost immediately. When I asked what the key moment of the debate was, LaCivita quickly answered, “The first 20 seconds.” Why was that? “Because the first question out of the gate is dealing with leadership on the world stage, everything going on in the Middle East, and Tim Walz comes up on stage and he’s completely rattled. He does not project the image of the type of leadership that you want in the White House. So right then and there framed the whole thing.”
Yes, it did. Walz’s shaky start cast a pall over the night for Democrats, and even when he got better, which he did, Walz still wasn’t as good as Vance. The Republican out-argued Walz on world crises, on the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, and on immigration, and he fought him to at least a draw on gun violence.
Then there were the moments when Walz inexplicably beat himself. When co-moderator Margaret Brennan asked about Walz’s oft-repeated tale of having been in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square uprising in 1989, when in fact he was in Nebraska, Walz went into a long song and dance about being from a small town. And then he said, “I’ve not been perfect, and I’m a knucklehead at times.” And then he said that he is given to talking too much. “I will talk a lot. I will get caught up in the rhetoric,” Walz said. In that moment, he did an excellent job of arguing that he is too emotional to be a heartbeat away from the presidency. And then, finally, when prodded by Brennan, he admitted that he “misspoke” about Hong Kong. Why didn’t he just do that to begin with?
Vance crushes Walz, debate was over in first minute - Washington Examiner
Indeed, when the debate began at 9:00 p.m., it was clear from its first moments that Walz was just what the stories had said -- nervous and a bad debater.
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