Tune in Tonight’s Presidential Debate to Discuss Tech Issues with the CBS Broadcaster Radio Network (CBS) During the 2016 Presidential Primary
One thing that’s different from the presidential debates this year is that neither candidate’s microphone will be muted by default when the other nominee is speaking, but CBS reserves the right to shut the mics down.
There will be no audience for this year’s presidential debates. The candidates will be introduced but there will be no opening statements. He decided to go second in the coin toss and speak for two minutes.
The former school teacher and the Hillbilly Elegy author have differing opinions on technology. Walz, for example, navigated a power struggle between ridehailing apps and their drivers, vetoing a state bill to raise minimum pay for Uber and Lyft drivers after the companies threatened to leave the state, then signing a different bill to raise driver pay an estimated 20 percent without losing what he saw as a key mode of transportation for many Minnesotans.
Vance has ruffled feathers in his own party with his stance on tech competition regulation. The former venture capitalist praised the federal trade commission chair for her progressive enforcement and rulemaking on tech, even though they are often criticized by the Wall Street Journal
Immigration policy, reproductive healthcare, and the economy are some of the key issues in this election, but we’ll be listening in for any hints on how a Trump or Harris administration would affect tech.
The debate will be aired on CBS in 90 minutes. Norah O’Donnell, CBS Evening News anchor and managing editor, and Margaret Brennan, Face the Nation moderator and chief foreign affairs correspondent, will moderate. The debate will be aired on CBS News and can be seen on MSNBC, C-SPAN, Fox News, and PBS. It can be streamed on the websites of CBS News, Paramount+ and C-SPAN.
Norah O’Donnell, anchor and managing editor of CBS Evening News, and Margaret Brennan, moderator for Face the Nation and chief foreign affairs correspondent for CBS, will moderate the debate.
The candidates will get about two minutes to answer questions, and then two minutes to give responses and one minute for rebuttals. Moderators can choose to grant an additional minute to continue a topic. The candidates can not bring pre written notes, and will not have a heads up on questions.
What will CBS News tell you about Vance’s upcoming term? How much do we care about what he’s saying, where he wants to go?
Rather than putting a link to a live fact-check on the screen for viewers, CBS will let them use a code to see the live fact-checking page.
Gibbs said as a farmer managing both crops and livestock, he wants to hear both candidates talk about immigration, trade, tariffs, biofuels and the Farm Bill, rather than personal attacks he expects Vance will launch at Walz.
The core principles of GOP diplomacy, statesmanship, personal responsibility, and compassion have been erased from the party’s books, according to a prediction made by a spokesman for the party.
The head of the Democratic Party in northwest Ohio said that his expectations were lower than for him when he worked for the local GOP.
Ryan, the former congressman of the area, defeated his opponent, who was also a seven-way Republican candidate, on the strength of Trump’s endorsement.
Someone will try to frame the Harris-Walz ticket as extreme and out of touch. They’ll be blamed for everything and the world’s going to end if they get elected,” Ryan said about Vance on the debate stage. Donald Trump’s audience is one reason he’ll be hitting that hard.
Ryan said there are a lot of false and racist rumors that have been made about legal Haitian immigrants in Springfield, as well as the negative comments he made about childless women.
“I don’t know if it’s who he really is or who he thinks he really is at this point,” Ryan said. He’s thin and so he can fly off the handle if you hit him in the right spot.
Ryan said that Walz should be ready to fact-check him during the debate. CBS News, which is hosting the debate, said it will be up to the candidates to call out inaccurate statements rather than relying on its moderators.
But with his popularity lower than any vice-presidential running mate in modern history, another Vance showed up Tuesday night — one largely respectful of his opponent. While the booing that occurs at campaign rallies when a reporter asks a question is different, Vance thanked the people at CBS.
“Republicans are energized, and many independents are impressed by his policy expertise and his eagerness to deftly answer all press questions while campaigning,” said Weaver, a consultant who’s has worked with a range of Republicans, from local officials in Ohio to former President Ronald Reagan.
Why does the vice president need to lose the 2020 election? The case for multiple slates of electors, argues JD Vance
As recently as this year, Vance told ABC News that he if he was vice president in 2020 he would not have certified the election like former Vice President Mike Pence did in 2021.
Going into Tuesday’s debate, former president Donald Trump and vice president Kamala Harris are neck and neck in the polls. A recent New York Times average of national polls showed Harris up three points in national polls, but neither candidate boasts a meaningful lead in battleground states like Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.
In Tuesday’s vice presidential debate, Republican Sen. JD Vance refused to answer when asked directly if former President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, and sidestepped other questions about election integrity.
I would’ve told the states that we need to have multiple slates of electors if I’d been vice president, and the congress should’ve fought over it from there. That is the way to handle an election that a lot of people, including me, think had a lot of problems. I think that’s what we should have done.”
The debate over the electors was a key topic of discussion for the Trump campaign. That scheme resulted in several criminal investigations.
There is nothing in the Constitution that would allow a vice president to force states to have multiple slates of electors. According to legal experts, it is up to states to decide that. And in the case of the 2020 election, there was no reason for states to consider multiple slates of electors.
The vice president’s role during certification is ceremonial. Most legal experts already realized that the vice president does not have the authority to determine the validity of electoral votes and that federal law clarified that.
Who is the real JD Vance? And 4 other takeaways from the vice-presidential debate: A critical look at a candidate that wasn’t
Neither candidate was asked about Ukraine, where these two campaigns have fundamentally different views, and Vance, in particular, has been a vocal critic of U.S. aid for Ukraine.
Walz didn’t have to account for his military record timeline or his misstatements on carrying weapons of war. Vance wasn’t asked about his “stolen valor” accusations about Walz’s service, either.
Moderators can only fit so much into a debate, but there were some things that have gotten attention in this campaign that weren’t brought up — some of which involve the vice presidential candidates directly.
That exposes one of the biggest issues in America: People don’t agree on a shared set of facts. People have their own ideologies and are finding others who affirm what they believe — whether Trump or posts on social media — rather than having their minds changed by contrary evidence.
In order to curry favor with the culture, Donald Trump has told people that there are simple solutions to complex problems, such as suggesting tariffs will not cover child care. Vance embraces this line of thinking and says voters should trust Trump over others. Vance said that Donald Trump had the wisdom and the courage to say to the people around him that it was time to not do it anymore. It was pronounced “woe”
The right more broadly in the last 10 years of American politics has moved away from believing experts. Democrats have had their own issues with being perceived as elitist and talking down to working-class voters. Republicans, like Trump, have exploited that.
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An Empirical View of Walz’s Time in China and Other Politics: What Will He Do If He’s Reelected?
Walz got off to a shaky start. He was asked about foreign policy at the beginning, which is clearly not his strong suit. He had some awkward pauses and misspoke (saying he’s “friends with school shooters,” for example, when he appeared to mean families of victims of school shootings).
Instead of directly saying he missed the boat, he gave a meandering answer which included him saying, “I will talk a lot” and suggesting that you can’t believe everything he says.
In addition to foreign policy, Walz was weakest in his response to questions about his time in China. Walz has said he was in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square protests, which took place in the spring of 1989. Minnesota Public Radio and others have reported that he didn’t actually travel there until later in the summer.
Vance also did a lot of laundering of Trump’s positions, especially on health care, child care and Jan. 6. Because Republicans have an advantage on the cost of living, his strongest moment was when he asked Harris why she hasn’t brought down prices already as part of the administration and implemented some of the things she’s promising to do if elected president.
Democrats and Republicans will have arguments in the vice-presidential debate about why their candidates did things differently at certain times.