happens tonight in New York City, where Governor Tim Walz and Senator J.D. Vance will face off in the first and only vice presidential debate, hosted by CBS News. With just over a month left before Election Day and early voting already underway in several states, polls show that the race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump is effectively a toss-up; tonight their running mates will try to make a difference. Whether that happens or not, it’s bound to get heated. Below are live updates, commentary, and analysis of the VP debate from the entire Intelligencer team.
How the debaters tonight impress voters as politicians in their own right will be one of the benchmarks used to evaluate them in the end. Do their popularity or unpopularity affect the strength of the presidential ticket they are running on? Tim Walz enters the debate as a more well-liked politician by all measures. He does, in fact, have the highest “favorability” ratio out of the four contenders for president and vice president. Based on averages from FiveThirtyEight polls, Walz’s rating is 40 percent favourable and 36.5 percent unfavourable. In the meantime, Vance’s favorable/unfavorable ratio is 34.8 percent. The other candidates on their ticket also have a marked difference in popularity: Donald Trump is at 42.9 percent favorable/52.6 percent unfavourable, while Kamala Harris is at 47.5 percent favorable/46.2 percent unfavourable.
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