Tim Walz and JD Vance shook hands in Tuesday night’s debate about immigration, the housing crisis, and fentanyl

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Ohio Sen. JD Vance don’t see eye to eye on much, but viewers who tuned into Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate might have been convinced otherwise.

Both candidates spoke about being in agreement with one another about a wide range of issues, including speeding up the asylum claim system, bringing jobs back to the U.S., and doing more to address gun violence.

There were some moments of common humanity between the two people, in a marked difference from the fiery tones of the two previous debates.

The two candidates shook hands at both the beginning and the end of the debate, at which point they were joined by their wives. Off-camera, Walz patted Vance on his arm and Vance gave Walz a pat on the back.

In Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance shied away from bombastic untrue claims about immigrants eating people’s pets and instead tackled issues such as the impact of immigrants on U.S.-born worker’s wages.

He promised that you would make it hard for illegal aliens to get cheaper wages. “A lot of people will go home if they can’t work for less than minimum wage in our own country. That will be great for our workers if they want to earn a fair wage for doing good work.

Vance carefully dodged questions regarding family separation, a policy that caused uproar during former President Donald Trump’s administration. He falsely claimed guns are smuggled into the U.S. over the border with Mexico (in fact, it’s the other way around), and spoke about immigrants as being responsible for the housing crisis — a complex issue that even conservative analysts say pre-existed the current wave of migration, but has been exacerbated by it.

Both candidates spoke about fentanyl as related to immigration, which remains a pervasive myth: Fentanyl is overwhelmingly brought into the U.S. by people crossing legally, through ports of entry. The street supply of fentanyl is also drying up.

The bill that would have strengthened border enforcement was brought up by the vice presidential candidate. It was killed at the behest of Trump, and Walz repeated the Democratic vow that if elected, Kamala Harris will sign it “on her first day in office.”

Immigration is one of the top concerns for voters and seen as a weak spot for Democrats, who, in response, have been flexing their muscle. On her recent trip to the Arizona border, Harrris vowed to “set rules at our border and to enforce them, and I take that responsibility very seriously.”

Still, on several occasions at Tuesday’s debate, Walz was critical of the Republican campaign’s rhetoric on immigration. He criticized Vance for how he spoke about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio.