Vice-presidential candidates had one job to do during debate – do no harm In some ways, Walz and Vance had a more difficult task than that faced by the two presidential candidates during their debate last month. David Shribman, Globe And Mail Oct 2, 2024 10:50 AM Share by Email Share on Facebook Share on X Share on LinkedIn Print Share via Text Message Senator J.D.
Vance of Ohio and Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota – respectively, the Republican Party nominee for vice-president and the Democratic Party nominee squared off on Tuesday night in a televised debate. Photo by Brett Sayles/Pexels Listen to this article 00:05:14 A vice-presidential debate is the greater sage-grouse of American politics: rare, featuring figures with roundish bodies, and with the males of the species known for undergoing dramatic changes of shape. Tuesday night’s debate fit the avian description nearly perfectly, especially considering that those scarce birds have a broad range.
Indeed, Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio and Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota – respectively, the Republican Party nominee for vice-president and the Democratic Party nominee, both of whom have undergone dramatic changes in the shape of their political profiles – ranged widely in both the subject and tone of their remarks.
From courtly to contentious, from congenial to combative, they stretched to appeal to an unusually broad range of audiences, in some ways a more difficult task than that faced by the two presidential candidat.
