Vice-presidential debates rarely matter much in presidential campaigns and Tuesday’s clash between Democrat Tim Walz and Republican JD Vance may matter less than ever — not because of what was said or not said, but because events have suddenly interceded in ways that could affect the election in its closing weeks much more than what […]Read More

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) and Ohio Sen. JD Vance (R) met on the debate stage Tuesday night in what is likely to be the only vice-presidential debate of the 2024 election cycle. Throughout the event, the two candidates sought to depict their opponents’ stances as at odds with their running mates, while sparring with […]Read More

Donald Trump describes Kamala Harris as the most “radical left” person to run for president, a “Comrade Kamala” who wants to raise taxes to fund a liberal agenda. But the most progressive members of Congress — many of whom served alongside Harris when she was in the Senate — paint a very different picture of […]Read More

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s son, Gus, witnessed a shooting last year at a St. Paul recreation center in which a teenager was shot in the head — something the Democratic vice-presidential nominee said as he argued for policies to reduce gun violence at Tuesday night’s debate. During a line of questioning about gun violence — […]Read More

Former president Donald Trump once again downplayed the traumatic brain injuries suffered by American soldiers in an Iranian missile strike on an air base in Iraq in 2020, describing them as “a headache,” in response to a questionat a campaign event in Milwaukee on Tuesday. Trump’s repeated dismissal of the attack’s effect on U.S. troops […]Read More

Gone was the JD Vance of “childless cat ladies.” Gone was the JD Vance who falsely claimed Haitian immigrants were eating their neighbors’ cats and dogs. And gone was the JD Vance of gleefully owning the libs online. Instead, Vance — the Republican senator from Ohio and Donald Trump’s running mate — used Tuesday night’s […]Read More

In the vice-presidential debate Tuesday night, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) proved he could match his running mate on the falsehood meter, though with a bit more verve and polish. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) misled on occasion, such as claiming Republicans supported a “registry for pregnancies.” Here is a roundup of 21 claims that caught […]Read More

It is one of the featured elements of Tim Walz’s biography: how as a teacher he often went to China, and how it informed his worldview. In his telling, it broadened his life experience. It helped educate his students, and Walz himself. But during Tuesday’s vice-presidential debate, the episode yielded one of Walz’s clumsiest moments […]Read More

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