Minnesota nice ran headlong into Ohio smart on Tuesday night as Governor Tim Walz faced off against Senator JD Vance in a CBS News vice presidential debate in New York City. The best Democrats can hope for is that voters were watching ‘Dancing With The Stars’ instead. Walz was exposed as a stuttering lightweight with no business being a heartbeat away from the Oval Office, while Vance delivered the most persuasive case for ‘America First’ Trumpism yet, in what may be the last debate of the 2024 election. From the opening exchange, Walz looked like a deer caught in the headlights—unsure of what was going on but aware big trouble was barrelling in his direction. He was caught red-handed in a lie about being in Beijing during the deadly Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989, when the Chinese Communist regime brutally put down student protesters. It turns out, as even The New York Times acknowledged, that Walz was in Nebraska at the time. Walz pathetically called himself a ‘knucklehead,’ but this isn’t just a question of incompetence. Beneath the ‘folksy’ act, Tiananmen Tim is a liar to his core. Add this fib to his long list of fabrications and egregious exaggerations; he claimed that he was deployed to a warzone as a member of the National Guard (false), that he wasn’t drunk during his 1996 drunk driving arrest (wrong), that his wife underwent IVF treatments (not true)… and on and on it goes. ‘I will talk a lot. I will get caught up in the rhetoric,’ explained Walz Tuesday night. Right, there’s a word for that: liar. Harris should have picked Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro for her running mate. Heading into Tuesday night, JD Vance had one goal: to prove that he is a thoughtful and composed statesman, not a ‘childless cat lady’-obsessed weirdo of the mainstream media’s imagination. Success! But Vance did that and more. The Ohio Senator delivered a Republican debate performance for the ages. From his deftness on bread-and-butter economic questions to his handling of the opening question on war in the Middle East, Vance hit home runs. ‘Governor Walz can criticize Donald Trump’s tweets, but effective, smart diplomacy and peace through strength is how you bring stability back to a very broken world,’ he said. ‘When did Iran and Hamas and their proxies attack Israel? It was during the administration of Kamala Harris,’ Vance asked and answered. After Trump selected the 40-year-old author-turned-venture capitalist and populist politician in July, many doubted the pick. Those days are now over. Talk about hillbilly energy. Vance even showed something rare seen on a debate stage: humility. He admitted that Republicans are not persuading voters to come around to their side on the thorny topic of abortion. ‘We’ve got to do so much better of a job at earning the American people’s trust back on this issue where they frankly, just don’t trust us,’ he said. Vance operates on an entirely different playing field than Walz, and it showed last night—bigly. If only his boss could be as articulate. Just as the Ohioan elevated Tuesday evening’s affair, the CBS News moderators dragged it down, turning in a shambolic performance that doubled as a Harris-Walz in-kind contribution. CBS News’s Norah O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan were as catastrophically biased as ABC News’ David Muir and Linsey Davis were during Trump’s debate against Harris last month.
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