republican JD Vance and democrat Tim WalzThe candidates for Vice President of the United States faced each other this Tuesday (1st) in an important debate, in which they compete for the decisive votes in the swing states of the United States.
Republican running mates Donald Trump and democrat kamala harris The handshake took place in the CBS New York studios, where moderators and reporters Norah O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan began asking the candidates questions about the issue. Crisis in the Middle East and Hurricane HelenWhich resulted in more than 155 deaths in the United States.
Other topics followed, such as immigration, climate change and abortion, all addressed in the heated election campaign.
The debate between Walz, the Minnesota governor chosen by Kamala Harris as her number two, and Vance, the Ohio senator and Donald Trump’s running mate, could be the last debate of the 2024 presidential election campaign.
Trump has ruled out a rematch with Kamala, so Tuesday’s showdown on the CBS network in New York should be the last chance to see a showdown between the two candidates.
Vance, 40, and Walz, 60, defend being the true voices of key swing states in the Midwest that by a few thousand votes could decide the winner of these elections, which, according to the polls, were technically tied five weeks ago. Live. Election.
History shows that vice-presidential candidate debates rarely impact the outcome, but in an election campaign in which Kamala Harris replaced President Joe Biden midway through the race, this Tuesday’s clash could add up to points. .
During this unusual campaign, Vance and Trump used divisive rhetoric, prompting a heated televised debate. “It will whet a lot of people’s appetite for November 5,” Thomas Whalen, an associate professor of social sciences at Boston University, told AFP.
But tensions in the Middle East, and particularly the approximately 180 missiles fired by Iran at Israel – which intercepted them – threaten to dominate the debate.
This Tuesday, during a visit to Wisconsin, one of the swing states, Trump did not even mention his running mate’s debate, but said that if he were in charge of the country, “Today’s attack against Israel would never would had.”
Kamala, in turn, reiterated her “unwavering” commitment to Israel, and said she “fully” supports Biden’s order for the US military to intercept Iranian missiles.
This also includes 155 deaths and destruction caused by Hurricane Helen in some states on the US East Coast.
Walz and Vance were chosen to attract votes in states in the center of the country, where, because of the old Electoral College system that elects the president, a few thousand votes can define the winner of an election.
‘high intensity’
The two running backs are military veterans with solid working-class credentials: Vance is best known as the author of the memoir “Once Upon a Dream” (Hillbilly Elegy), and Walz as a former teacher and football coach. Known in.
But the similarities end here. Vance shares Trump’s addiction to creating controversy, whether it’s shaming Democratic women for preferring cats over having children, or promoting false claims that Haitian immigrants in an Ohio town are abandoning their pets. Eat.
His goal will be to overcome polls that initially placed him as one of the least popular vice presidential candidates in history following revelations of past comments about women and abortion.
Whalen said, “Vance has to be careful because I believe he was the victim of a trap.” In turn, as Harris rapidly ascends as Biden’s replacement in the Democratic nomination, Walz will try to present herself to an audience that barely knows her.
His progressive politics and the “outsider” label imposed on Vance and Trump have given them a boost within the Democratic ranks, but this will actually be one of Vance’s fronts of attack as he and Trump denounce Walz and Kamala as “Marxists.” Let’s try to portray.
Televised debates this year have already demonstrated their ability to cause chaos: Biden was forced to withdraw from re-election after a disastrous performance against Trump in a debate in June.
Whalen says that in the United States in the past “there have rarely been vice-presidential debates in which there has been a significant margin”, but Tuesday’s performance could be “high intensity” for viewers who enjoy political theater. Let’s take.
(AFP)
