The TV confrontation between the two candidates for the US vice presidency began with a handshake and continued in heated but always civil tones. There are many issues of conflict, from the war in the Middle East to migrants, from abortion to climate change
The handshake at the beginning, the final shake with the exchange of a couple of words. And in between
a civil debate, at times almost friendly. The confrontation between the two US vice presidential candidates Tim Walz (for the Democrats) and JD Vance (for the Republicans) which aired in the United States in prime time did not end in confrontation or insult. The two challengers expressed opposing positions on everything, from the migrant emergency to the economy, from the spread of weapons to oil drilling, from the right to abortion to climate change, but they spoke to each other while avoiding personal attacks and low blows.
Middle East, Walz: “Trump is not up to par”. Vance: “He made the world safer”
There was no shortage of direct attacks on Donald Trump from Walz. “Donald Trump is not capable of managing the crisis in the Middle East because he looks to Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korea, instead he needs the calm leadership of Kamala Harris” declared Walz, but avoided answering the question of one of the CBS moderators who asked if they agreed with an Israeli attack on Iran. “It’s up to Israel to decide,” Vance replied, then added: “We must support our allies wherever they are when they fight the bad guys.” Donald Trump “consistently made the world safer” and as president, he believed that “peace must be pursued through strength,” Vance continued.
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Climate change, Vance does not answer. Walz attacks
On climate change, it was JD Vance who evaded the question when asked about the fact that climate change according to Donald Trump is a hoax: “Many people are rightly worried about all these crazy weather patterns,” he said, adding that both he and Donald Trump are in favor of “clean air, clean water.” The United States is “the cleanest economy in the world”, he continued, without answering, however, how a Trump administration would reduce the impact on climate change. “Trump says climate change is a hoax, hosts oil workers at Mar-a-Lago and says
they ‘give me campaign money and I’ll make you do whatever you want’. We can be smarter than this,” Walz attacked.
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The clash over migrants and face-checking by the CBS journalist
On the hot topic of migrants, JD Vance reiterated that in Springfield, Ohio “there are schools that are overwhelmed, there are hospitals that are overwhelmed, there are housing that are totally unaffordable because we have brought in millions of illegal immigrants to compete with the Americans” . At this point he was corrected with a fact-check by host Margaret Brennan, who reminded him how the Haitians settled in Springfield – who he falsely accused of eating residents’ pets – have legal status and how their arrival contributed to repopulate the city. A clarification that was not liked by Donald Trump, who accused the CBS journalists of being “prejudiced”. Walz for his part accused JD Vance of “defaming and dehumanizing migrants.”
Vance accuses Dems over abortion
There were also sparks when abortion was discussed. JD Vance accused the Democrats of a “radically pro-abortion” position and reiterated Donald Trump’s line, which is against a national ban and in favor of leaving the decision to the states. Vance said he is a “Republican who proudly wants to protect innocent life in this country” and that he and Trump are striving to be “pro-family in the fullest sense of the word,” that he supports fertility treatments and that he wants mothers to be able to afford to have children. “Women must have the right to choose and decide about their own bodies,” Walz said instead.
Use Weekly News, the Harris-Trump debate, and the Swift endorsement
The first debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump took place in Philadelphia, in one of the most important states for these elections. At the center were the issues of abortion and immigration, which heated up the conversation, even when Trump spoke of immigrants “eating animals” in Ohio. Once the debate was over, the surprise arrived on social media: Taylor Swift’s endorsement of the ticker Harris-Walz arrived on social media. Edited by Valentina Clemente
The first (and perhaps only) Harris-Trump debate – Two different visions, but also two tones, two styles, two different ways of occupying the stage. The first and perhaps only television duel between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump brought two opposing worlds together in an hour and a half of confrontation, which never deteriorated, despite a couple of moments in which the tycoon lost control
Harris decided to attack from the beginning, when the viewers’ opinion is statistically formed in the first half hour. Then the skirmish began. “This government has been a disaster,” attacked the tycoon. Harris, however, aimed to ridicule her opponent, accusing him of “selling out America in exchange for flattery” to Putin
The debate and abortion – The former president reiterated the accusation that the Democrats had authorized in Virginia to “kill the child after birth, like an execution”, provoking the reaction of one of the two moderators, the journalist Linsey Davis, who recalled how is not permitted in any state in America. Then Trump relaunched the story that in Ohio illegal immigrants steal dogs and cats to eat them, a phrase that caused surprise and laughter from Kamala Harris