CBS News is presenting the only debate between the 2024 presidential running mates on Tuesday. Gov. Tim Walz, the Democrat from Minnesota, will face off against Sen.
JD Vance (R-Ohio) starting at 6 p.m. (Pacific).
The candidates will be questioned by “CBS Evening News” anchor Norah O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan, who queries Washington power players each week on the Sunday public affairs program “Face the Nation.” The event at the CBS Broadcast Center on Manhattan’s West Side will mark the first time two women have moderated any general election presidential or vice presidential debate. CBS is making the debate available across all cable news channels and major broadcast networks.
Streaming platforms will carry it as well, including Paramount+ and the division’s free service CBS News 24/7. The 90-minute debate will have two four-minute commercial breaks. Like the presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump, there will be no live audience.
Unlike the Sept. 10 presidential debate on ABC, the moderators will not fact-check the candidates for vice president during the proceedings on Tuesday. CBS News will provide real-time fact-checking on its live blog and on social media.
The moderators are veteran journalists with long tenures covering national politics. O’Donnell has spent her entire career in the Beltway, and both she and Brennan have served as White House correspondents for CBS. They have both traveled the world extens.