Vice Presidential Debate Megapost! Tue, 10/1/2024
Final (?) Debate thread before the election in 35 days.
Debate begins at 9 PM Eastern, 6 PM Pacific and runs 90 minutes.
Vice Presidential debates are always tricky since nobody has voted for Vice President in living memory.
Expect Vance to attack Walz on his military service.
Expect Walz to attack Vance on the whole "immigrants eating cats and dogs" thing.
Expect Vance to attack Walz on being an assistant coach, at best.
Expect Walz to roll out "Weird!" at least once.
CBS has announced the burden of fact checking will be on the candidates themselves.
https://apnews.com/article/cbs-debate-vice-president-fact-check-7a3b31c98ab092dd44915df57a359d10
How to watch here:
https://apnews.com/article/cbs-debate-vice-president-fact-check-7a3b31c98ab092dd44915df57a359d10
"How can you watch the VP debate on cable?
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Debate coverage on CBS News 24/7 begins at 4 p.m. ET."
Edit Impressive how a debate can go when one participant doesn't have mental health issues! Thanks for coming everybody!
In the last Canadian debate one of the questions was that if you reduce housing prices how will the elderly who own all the houses afford their retirement. I thought it was ridiculous, but it's interesting that it's not even in the discussion tonight
Sell the houses?
Yeah, the implication was that if anyone actually made substantial progress in reducing prices that it would result in getting less from the sale. I thought it was the worst question and missing the point but all leaders answered it as if it was a huge concern and how there'd need to be balance
Nobody really brought it up and nobody seemed to care in any of the coverage of that debate, even on that other site, so I thought maybe it would be a talking point