Vice Presidential Debate TV Review: A Staid & Soon Forgotten Match-Up Sees Tim Walz Let J.D. Vance Off Easy
deadline.comFranklin Delano Roosevelt’s first running mate John Nance Garner famously once declared that the vice president’s office was “not worth a bucket of warm piss.” In the first and only VP debate of the 2024 election, Governor Tim Walz and Senator J.D.
Vance tonight went out of their way to prove the ornery Texan pretty much right. As different as two American politicians can be today except for both being white guys who are aiming for the ultimate bench warmer gig, Walz and Vance know their brief was to do no evil for 90-minutes on Tuesday.
Despite some sparing over who won the 2020 election, the January 6 MAGA assault on the Capitol near the end and Walz condemning Vance for “a damning nonanswer” on the matter, the two candidates sealed the fairly dull deal.
Often proving not ready for primetime since his July selection by Donald Trump, Vance raised his game and constantly reminded viewers that he came from the drug addled working class.
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