Tonight, starting at 9 p.m. Eastern, Ohio senator J.D. Vance (Republican) and Minnesota governor Tim Walz (Democratic) will participate in a debate hosted by CBS News. Per CBS' 'What to Know' page, the debate will run for 90 minutes, will not have an audience, and will not feature opening statements. Also per that page: "Candidates, who cannot bring pre-written notes or props on stage, will have two minutes to answer a question and two minutes to respond. They will be allowed one minute for rebuttals. At moderators' discretion, candidates may get an additional minute to continue a discussion." CBS "reserves the right" to turn off a given candidates' microphone, but mics will not be muted by default while a candidate's opponent is speaking.
News and Analysis
CBS: Meet the moderators for tonight's VP debate, Norah O'Donnell and Margaret Brennan
CBS: How the VP debate rules will work for the Walz-Vance 2024 showdown
CBS: What to know about JD Vance's views and policy record before the VP debate
CBS: What to know about Tim Walz's views and policy record before the VP debate
AP: What to watch as JD Vance and Tim Walz meet for a vice presidential debate
AP: CBS News says it will be up to Vance and Walz to fact-check each other in veep debate
Fact Checking
Live fact checking will be provided by Politifact and can be viewed here on PBS' website, and a roundup of Politifact's pre-debate fact-checking can also be viewed on this PBS page.
Live Pages
For those wishing to follow along with the debate via text-based updates, check out any of the following pages from: CBS, AP, NPR, NBC, ABC, The New York Times (soft paywall), The Washington Post (soft paywall), CNN (soft paywall), The Guardian, USA Today, MSNBC, CNBC, The Independent, Vanity Fair, or Yahoo.
Where to Watch
The debate will be broadcast on CBS, and can also be viewed live (or later) at any of the following pages. All times in this section are US Eastern.
CBS via YouTube: Watch Live: JD Vance and Tim Walz vice presidential debate, hosted by CBS News (Stream goes live at 4 p.m.)
CBS via YouTube: Watch Live: Vance-Walz VP debate highlights and analysis (Goes live at 10:30 p.m.)
PBS NewsHour via YouTube: Vance and Walz debate — PBS News simulcast of CBS’s 2024 Vice Presidential Debate
Discussion Thread: 2024 Vice Presidential Debate Between Senator J.D. Vance and Governor Tim Walz
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What happens during the handshake before the debate? No handshake?
Does someone cross over the middle of the stage to handshake like Kamala did to Trump?
What does the debate start
What does the debate start
hoping for at least one “you betcha” and an uffda if we’re lucky
All those childless cat ladies out there, HMU.
The conundrum of JD Vance
– He would be more convincing and relatable if he had principles
– However if he had principles he wouldn’t be a Trump supporter
Tim Walz encountered juvenile “I think I’m smarter than you” kids as a high school teacher all the time.
He’ll be fine tonight
Walz should just bring up Vance’s past comments about trump.
When the union calls, Minnesota delivers.
JD Vance doesn’t listen to Taylor’s Version
This debate will be so free if Walz can capitalize off of a blunder and tie it to the fact that Vance is already extremely unpopular and would be the next president after Trump is too old
What I really want Walz to do, when Vance starts yapping over top of him during an answer (which we all know he’ll do), is just stop and look over at Vance and say “You need to shut up when someone’s talking. In Minnesota we call that ‘manners’. Did you learn manners at Yale, Senator? Well you need to use them.”
not Steve Kornacki doing serious multi-page statistics presentation on how much people hate JD Vance lmao
What are we sipping on and/or munching on for this evening’s ~~discussion of public policy~~ debate?
JD is doing this for his audience of 1
If Gov Walz exceeds expectations tonight it could end a few of the swing states
My popcorn is ready! I can’t wait for Walz to wipe the floor with Vance tonight!
Learn Irish why you wait
English : Why is that weird person wearing eye liner?
Irish : Cén fáth a bhfuil an duine aisteach sin ag caitheamh línéar súl?
Are we, perhaps, putting too much faith in Walz destroying Vance?
Remember back when not being able to spell “potato” was disqualifying from office?
Now-a-days being a potato isn’t even disqualifying
Hold me, Mommy.
What do we think the odds are that Vance beelines to Walz’s podium trying to corner him for a handshake solely because it worked for Kamala? Does Walz counter by going to stage center and pulling a ‘what are you doing over there?’
This thing is at 10:30 pm? really that late?
These undecided people on NBC are… something
Will anything tonight top the memes that came from the Harris / Trump debate? Doubt it. This lives rent free in my head:
https://x.com/FearghasKelly/status/1833826081754808363
Walz is, by his own admission, not the strongest debater. Vance is also not a 68-year-old in the early stages of dementia. This will probably be much closer than the presidential debate.
i was gonna say i’m excited to see vance make a fucking fool out of himself, but then again it doesn’t even matter, he’ll get around half the vote anyway
I’m here for it!
I hope the topic of Healthcare comes up and Walz says something to the effect of, “the average lifespan of an American is about 78yrs, roughly 75for men,80 for women. I want all of us to live that long, but half of us don’t”.
Kind of a subtle way of mentioning Trump’s age issue.
1 more hour or so!
“It will run 90 minutes — the same length as the two presidential debates — and end at 10:30 p.m. ET. (7:30 p.m. PT etc.)”
Other question I’m looking forward to: “Today is President Jimmy Carter’s 100th birthday, the first American President to live to 100. Please explain how your policy stances are similar to and different from President Carter’s.
Walz: Eloquent and authentic response about relating to every day Americans and working in his community.
Vance: Thrashing about coastal liberal elites, without demonstrating any evidence of knowing who Jimmy Carter is or the hallmarks of his Presidency.
Vance also said that he didn’t really feel as though he would need to prepare. Sound familiar?
JV Vance campaign staff has already announced he plans on appearing on camera in the spin room after the debate. Can’t have Donald be the only loser. lol
My ass is ready!
Where’s everyone streaming the debate?
What the hell, this starts at 9 et? I thought 8
Here’s what I think; when asked about Carter and his birthday, Vance will probably say something along the lines of why should we care about his birthday and that he’s likely to die soon anyway, because he’s so old, and that it should be good for him to die.
That is exactly the type of person that Vance is.
I’ll make a list of crazy stuff JD says, good okay. Throughout the night. And the copy-paste and add. We can vote on the dumbest in the post.
Walz is gonna tear him a new one lol