A Two-Fingered Debate Between Trump and Harris on Tech: The ABC ABC7 Debate Presented to Margaret Brennan and Norah O’Donnell

The microphones will be on for the duration of the debate, which is different than the last ABC debate between Trump and Harris. The candidates will have two minutes to answer questions, two minutes to respond to their opponents, and one minute for rebuttals.

Like this year’s presidential debates, there will not be an audience. The candidates will be introduced starting with Walz because he’s in the incumbent party, but there won’t be opening statements. Vance won a coin toss and chose to go second with his two-minute closing statement.

The former school teacher and Hillbilly Elegy author have very different stances on tech. He signed a bill to raise driver pay by 20 percent without losing what he perceived to be, despite vetoing a state bill in the middle of a power struggle between them and ride hailing apps.

Vance has ruffled feathers in his own party with his stance on tech competition regulation. The former venture capitalist and Peter Thiel protégé has praised Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan as “one of the few people in the Biden administration that I actually think is doing a pretty good job,” even though her progressive enforcement and rulemaking on tech is often the subject of critical Wall Street Journal op-eds and corporate pushback.

Tuesday’s debate will likely focus more on some of the key issues in this election, including immigration policy, reproductive healthcare, and the economy, but we’ll be listening in for any hints at how a Trump or Harris administration would impact tech.

The debate is expected to run for 90 minutes and be broadcasted on CBS. Margaret Brennan, a Face the Nation correspondent, and Norah O’Donnell, CBS evening news anchor, will moderate. The debate, which takes place in New York City, will air on the CBS News and will be simulcast on other networks including CNN, C-SPAN, Fox News, MSNBC, NBC, and PBS. It can be viewed online on CBS News, Paramount+ and C-SPAN.

Norah O’Donnell, anchor and managing editor of CBS Evening News, and Margaret Brennan, moderator for Face the Nation and chief foreign affairs correspondent for CBS, will moderate the debate.

Two minutes to answer each question and two minutes to reply, with one minute for rebuttals are what the candidates will get. An extra minute will be granted to continue a topic. Candidates aren’t allowed to bring prewritten notes while they aren’t able to have a heads up on questions.

Tim Ryan and Tim Vance at CBS News: What will we learn from their debates about the Farm Bill, immigration, and the Trump era?

CBS plans to direct viewers to a live fact-checking page rather than have the moderators jump in to fact-check in real time.

“I am a farmer, and I want to hear both candidates talk about what they are going to do with the Farm Bill and immigration, instead of personal attacks from the other side,” he said.

The core GOP principles of diplomacy, statesmanship, personal responsibility, and compassion have all but been extinguished from the party.

“My expectations for him on the debate stage could not be lower since I was a local Democratic Chair who had been in the local GOP administration for twenty years”, said Chris Gibbons, who leads the Democratic Party in northwestern Ohio.

After winning a seven-way Republican primary and being endorsed by Trump, Tim Ryan came out on top in the race against Vance.

“I think you’ll see somebody being very aggressive at trying to frame the Harris-Walz ticket as super extreme, super out of touch. Ryan said that they would be blamed for everything and the world would end if they were elected. Donald Trump has an audience of one, so he’ll be hitting that hard.

The false and racist rumors that he has made about legal Haitian immigrants, as well as the negative comments he has made about childless women, are some of the controversial statements that Ryan said will probably come to light.

Ryan didn’t know if it was who he really was or if he thought he was at this point. He’s thin-skinned and uncomfortable, so if he’s in the right spot he can fly off the handle.

Ryan added that during the debate with Vance, Walz should be prepared to “fact-check him in real time”. The CBS News that is holding the debate said it will be up to the candidates to call out false statements.

But with his popularity lower than any vice-presidential running mate in modern history, another Vance showed up Tuesday night — one largely respectful of his opponent. Vance even thanked the “folks at CBS,” a far cry from the booing that takes place on the campaign trail at his rallies when a reporter asks a question.

“Republicans are energized, and many independents are impressed by his policy expertise and his eagerness to deftly answer all press questions while campaigning,” said Weaver, a consultant who’s has worked with a range of Republicans, from local officials in Ohio to former President Ronald Reagan.

The Electoral College and Certified Elections: What Did Vance Have to Say About The Trump Campaign in 2020? A Commentary on the Attorney General at the Brennen Center for Justice

As recently as this year, Vance told ABC News that he if he was vice president in 2020 he would not have certified the election like former Vice President Mike Pence did in 2021.

Going into Tuesday’s debate, former president Donald Trump and vice president Kamala Harris are neck and neck in the polls. A recent New York Times average of national polls showed Harris up three points in national polls, but neither candidate boasts a meaningful lead in battleground states like Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.

Even if every governor certified the election results, Vance was asked if he would challenge them as vice president. They also asked about his past remarks on the 2020 election, particularly what he has said about asking states to “submit alternative electors” before certifying the election.

“If I had been vice president, I would have told the states, like Pennsylvania, Georgia and so many others, that we needed to have multiple slates of electors, and I think the U.S. Congress should have fought over it from there,” Vance said. I think that’s the way to deal with an election that a lot of people, including me, think had a lot of problems in 2020. I think that was what we should have done.

The Trump campaign wanted to change the results of the 2020 election by tampering with the outcome of the Electoral College. Several criminal investigations were a result of that scheme.

There is nothing in the Constitution that would allow a vice president to force states to have multiple slates of electors. According to legal experts, it is up to states to decide that. And in the case of the 2020 election, there was no reason for states to consider multiple slates of electors.

And lastly, a vice president’s role during certification is largely ceremonial. According to the Brennen Center for Justice, federal law “clarifies what was already evident to most legal observers: the vice president’s role in the joint session is limited to ‘ministerial duties,’ and she or he does not have the authority to determine the validity of electoral votes or otherwise ‘adjudicate or resolve disputes.’”

The real JD Vance: And 4 other takeaways from the vice-presidential debate (with links to the podcast, The New York Times, Technews, and Wired)

Both candidates were not asked if they supported or opposed aid forUkraine, and neither has been a critic of it.

Walz didn’t have to account for his military record timeline or his misstatements on carrying weapons of war. He was not asked about his accusations about the service of Walz.

In this campaign there are some things that have not been brought up that have gotten attention, but they are related to the vice presidential candidates.

That exposes one of the biggest issues in America: People don’t agree on a shared set of facts. People have their own ideologies and are finding others who affirm what they believe — whether Trump or posts on social media — rather than having their minds changed by contrary evidence.

In place of trusting traditional sources of knowledge, Trump has played to cultural grievance, telling people there are simple solutions to complex problems — like suggesting tariffs will pay for child care, which they will not. Vance embraces this line of thinking and says voters should trust Trump over others. When it came to the global economy, Donald Trump had the wisdom and the courage to say, “We’re not doing it anymore.” I say that.

The right more broadly in American politics has moved away from believing experts in the last decade. Democrats have had to deal with the perception that they are elitist and talking to working-class voters. Republicans, like Trump, have exploited that.

Source: Who is the real JD Vance? And 4 other takeaways from the vice-presidential debate

Tim Vance meets Tim Walz during the 2018 Vice-Presidential Debate: Where do we stand? Where are we going? What can we learn from his night in Minnesota?

His best moment of the night was talking about the 2020 presidential election. The man asked if Trump had lost the election. Vance deflected and claimed instead that the real threat to democracy was “censorship.”

Instead of saying he misspoke, he gave a meandering response that included him stating, “I will talk a lot.” which could mean you can’t believe everything he says.

In addition to foreign policy, Walz was weakest in his response to questions about his time in China. The Tiananmen Square protests took place in Hong Kong during the spring of 1989. He did not actually travel there until later in the summer according to Minnesota Public Radio.

He laundered Trump’s positions on health care, child care and Jan. 6. Because Republicans have an inherent advantage on the cost of living in this election, his strongest moments were when he questioned why Harris hasn’t brought down prices already as part of the administration and implemented some of the things she’s promising to do if elected president.

Partisans on both sides will have arguments for why their guy did well at certain times and not as well at others in the first and only vice-presidential debate Tuesday night between Republican JD Vance and Democrat Tim Walz.