Ohio Republican Sen. JD Vance, former President Donald Trump’s running mate, went toe-to-toe with his Democratic Party opponent, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz in a debate on Monday night, and he delivered a total masterclass on how its done. It was clear from the beginning that the moderators were going to try and gang up on Vance the same way ABC News’ moderators did, but they were not prepared for Vance to fight back. Which he did. And he did so in such a firm, classy manner that he seems to have won folks over.
A very substantive conversation about policy was had by both candidates, but Vance was on fire the whole evening. Clearly, he was the winner. And even a CNN post-debate poll, which was skewed five points in favor of the Democrats, couldn’t keep him from being crowned the victor. The poll said Vance beat Walz 51 percent to 49 percent. Almost every major news network had a panel discussion about the debate and stated emphatically Vance took Walz to the woodshed.
CNN's post-#VPDebate poll had JD Vance winning the debate by 1% — 51% to 49% — despite the polling sample being FIVE points skewed to Democrats pic.twitter.com/zlg2IvUxaC
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) October 2, 2024
What this says is that Vance was indeed the right man for Trump to choose for his presidential campaign. He is clear, articulate and compliments the strengths of the former president nicely. You can tell his campaign did their homework.
Americans are clearly fed up with Harris-Biden administration and their policy failures that have wrecked their lives and bank accounts.
According to Newsbusters:
Under the harsh glare of Regime Media scrutiny, the consensus seems to be that Minnesota Governor and Democrat presidential nominee Tim Walz was either under or overprepared, and was hurt by the Harris campaign’s decision to keep him away from interviews. Watch as CNN’s Abby Phillip delivers a brutal assessment in the immediate aftermath of the debate:
CNN panel reluctantly admit Vance won the debate, say Walz was unprepared, overcoached and underexposed to local media pic.twitter.com/l7YkuP1QhL
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) October 2, 2024
ABBY PHILLIP: I think we shouldn’t lose track, I think- even in the civility, of the fact that JD Vance came to this debate to land a bunch of punches, and he did. He landed a lot of punches in between all the niceties and all of that. And the thing that- that really stood out to me was that Tim Walz did not seem prepared for it. He didn’t respond to a lot of the criticisms and attacks that Vance put on the table. He allowed some clear falsehoods to just go completely unanswered. He allowed JD Vance, essentially, to dodge on a whole host of issues: on climate change, on- on the issue of his flip flopping on Donald Trump he… he allowed Vance initially to claim that Trump salvaged the Affordable Care Act. It took him several sentences to get to the part of his answer- Walz’s answer,
PHILLIP: …where he- where he actually responded to that. I mean, I think there was a clear lack of preparation and execution here on Walz’s part.
DANA BASH: I think he- I think actually it’s the opposite. I think he had too much preparation.
PHILLIP: Maybe.
BASH: He had so many lines that he was clearly trying to say that he didn’t listen. And when- when JD Vance said one of the many, many things he really hit Kamala Harris on, not Tim Walz but Kamala Harris, he didn’t respond because he clearly had things in his mind. I think the lack of interviews that he has done with national media, with local media, it showed. He needed more reps.
What a fantastic job by Vance. He has to be feeling pretty good today. Let’s hope this helps convince those on the fence to get down and cast a ballot for Trump/Vance!
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