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Walz, Vance clash in policy-heavy vice presidential debate

Walz, Vance clash in policy-heavy vice presidential debate

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The vice-presidential debate between Tim Walz, the running mate of Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris, and JD Vance, the running mate of former President Donald Trump, focused on several key issues. The debate began with a question about the Middle East crisis, with Walz criticizing Trump's foreign policy record and Vance questioning Harris's leadership on the issue. The two candidates also clashed on immigration, taxes, abortion, climate change, and the economy, with Walz accusing Trump of being an unstable leader and Vance criticizing Harris for not doing enough to address middle-class problems. Walz and Vance also discussed the Capitol riot and abortion, with Walz expressing support for reproductive rights and Vance opposing abortion. The debate was notable for its relatively civil tone, with the two candidates avoiding personal attacks and focusing on policy differences.

Tim Walz
Democratic Party
1. Will you stand up? Will you keep your oath of office even if the president doesn't?
2. It's those who are closest to Donald Trump that understand how dangerous he is when the world is this dangerous.
3. No one's trying to scaremonger and say we're taking your guns, but I ask all of you out there: Do you want your schools to be hardened to look like a fort? Is that where we have to go, when we know there are countries around the world where their children aren't practising these kinds of [school shooting] drills?
4. Less than 2% of that wall got built, and Mexico didn't pay a dime.
5. We had a coalition of nations that had boxed Iran's nuclear programme in.
6. Donald Trump pulled that programme and put nothing else in its place. So Iran is closer to a nuclear weapon than they were before because of Donald Trump's fickle leadership.
7. What is fundamental here is that steady leadership is going to matter.
8. That's not how this works. This is basic human rights. We have seen maternal mortality skyrocket in Texas, outpacing many other countries in the world.
9. How can we, as a nation, say that your life and your rights – as basic as the right to control your own body – is determined on geography?
10. A nearly 80-year-old Donald Trump talking about crowd sizes is not what we need at this moment.
11. Look, I grew up in small, rural Nebraska, a town of 400, a town that you rode your bike with your buddies until the street lights come on, and I'm proud of that service.
12. Economists? Can't be trusted. Scientists? Can't be trusted. National security folks? Can't be trusted.
13. We invested … and it starts to make it easier, cut some of the red tape.
14. Israel's ability to be able to defend itself is absolutely fundamental. Getting its hostages back – fundamental. And ending the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. But the expansion of Israel and its proxies is an absolute fundamental necessity for the United States to have a steady leadership there.
15. When our allies see Donald Trump turn towards Vladimir Putin, turn towards North Korea, when we start to see that type of fickleness about holding the coalitions together — we will stay committed.
16. When Iranian missiles did fall near US troops and they received traumatic brain injuries, Donald Trump wrote it off as 'headaches.'
17. Kamala Harris was the attorney general of the largest border state in California. She's the only person in this race who prosecuted transnational gangs for human trafficking and drug interventions.
18. The consequences in Springfield were the governor had to send state law enforcement to escort kindergarteners to school.
19. We're pro-women. We're pro-freedom to make your own choice.
James David Vance
Republican Party
1. The idea that we can wave a magic wand and take guns out of the hands of bad guys, it just doesn't fit with recent experience.
2. I was wrong, first of all, because I believe some of the media stories that turned out to be dishonest fabrications of his record. But most importantly, Donald Trump delivered for the American people.
3. If Kamala Harris has such great plans for how to address middle class problems, then she ought to do them now.
4. In Springfield, Ohio, and in communities all across this country, you've got schools that are overwhelmed, you've got hospitals that are overwhelmed, you've got housing that is totally unaffordable, because we brought in millions of illegal immigrants to compete with Americans for scarce homes.
5. Something these guys do is they make a lot of claims about if Donald Trump becomes president, all of these terrible consequences are going to ensue.
6. Donald Trump actually delivered stability in the world. Iran, which launched this attack, has received over $100 billion in unfrozen assets thanks to the Kamala Harris administration.
7. Gov. Walz can criticize Donald Trump's tweets, but effective, smart diplomacy and peace through strength is how you bring stability back to a very broken world.
8. It is up to Israel what they think they need to keep their country safe, and we should support our allies wherever they are when they're fighting the bad guys.
9. As much as Governor Walz just accused Donald Trump of being an agent of chaos, Donald Trump actually delivered security in the world, and he did it by establishing effective deterrence. People were afraid of stepping out of line.
10. It is really rich for Democrats to say Trump is a unique threat to democracy when he peacefully gave over power on January 20 as we have done for 250 years in this country.
11. Governor, you say trust the experts. But those same experts for 40 years said that if we shipped our manufacturing base off to China, we'd get cheaper goods. They lied about that.
12. We ought to debate our differences. We ought to argue about them. Kamala Harris is engaged in censorship on an industrial scale.
13. Donald Trump recognised, for people to fear the United States, you needed peace through strength.
14. I remember when I was being raised by my grandmother, when she didn't have enough money to turn on the heat some nights because Ohio gets pretty cold at night and because money was often very tight.
Mark Kelly
Senate Armed Services Airland Subcommittee
1. It makes me rather concerned about whether we could find ourselves in a situation again where we have a challenge in certifying the election and you know, what could happen in the days that follow.
Filippo Trevisan
1. There was a surprising amount of civility. We haven't had a debate like this since before 2016. It wasn't only different from the Trump/Harris debate in September, but also the Harris/Pence vice presidential debate in 2020.
Stuart Stevens
Lincoln Project
1. How humiliating must it be for J.D. Vance that he can't admit America has a legal election or his boss will fire him.

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