When and where is the US vice presidential debate between Vance and Walz?

Democrat Tim Walz and Republican JD Vance will face off next week in the only vice presidential debate scheduled in the United States, an opportunity for each of the candidates to reinforce his running mate’s message to voters just a few weeks before the November 5 elections.

Here are some details about the event:

When and where is the debate?

The 90-minute debate, presented by CBS News, will take place on October 1 at 9:00 pm ET (01:00 GMT on October 2) in New York, Democratic stronghold and former home of Donald Trump, the Republican presidential candidate facing Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris.

Who are the moderators?

The debate will take place at the CBS Broadcast Center and will be moderated by CBS Evening News anchor Norah O’Donnell and Face the Nation moderator Margaret Brennan.

How to watch the debate?

The event will be broadcast on the CBS network and live on all platforms where CBS News 24/7 and Paramount+ are available. CBS said it will also be available for simulcast.

He September 10 presidential debate between Harris and Trump on ABC News attracted 67 million viewers.

What are the basic rules?

There will be no public. The candidates will remain behind podiums throughout the debate. No notes of any kind will be allowed on stage. CBS News reserves the right to turn off candidates’ microphones.

What to expect from Walz?

Walz, governor of Minnesotawill likely use his “regular guy” reputation to try to appeal to voters, including some independents, who consider Harris, a former senator from California, too liberal.

Walz, 60, is a former congressman who won election in a Republican-leaning district before becoming governor.

As governor, he has pushed a progressive agenda that includes free school meals, tax cuts for the middle class and expanded paid leave for Minnesota workers.

Walz is likely to try to provoke Vance, as Harris did successfully in her debate with Trump. Walz has questioned Vance’s Midwestern credentials and mocked his 2016 memoir “Hillbilly Elegy” for its depiction of rural America.

“Like all the normal people I grew up with in the heartland, JD studied at Yale, had his career funded by Silicon Valley billionaires, and then wrote a bestseller destroying that community,” Walz said at his first rally as a candidate for Harris vice president. “Come on! That’s not average America.”

Walz, who is also a former high school teacher and football coach, has called Trump and Vance “creepy and, yes, strange,” a criticism that spread widely among Democrats.

The Democratic vice presidential candidate has linked Vance to a set of conservative policy proposals known as the Project 2025from which Trump has tried to distance himself.

What to expect from Vance?

Vance, a U.S. senator from Ohio, will have to work hard not to be on the defensive throughout the debate if Walz employs Harris’ debate strategy.

Vance, 40, will likely face questions about his incendiary rhetoric and could respond with his combative style.

He has been criticized for referring to Harris and other Democrats in 2021 as a “group of childless cat ladies” and, more recently, for spread false claims that Haitian immigrants in the Ohio city of Springfield were eating pets.

He has also claimed, without evidence, that the suspect in the latest assassination attempt against Trump acted based on Democrats’ inflammatory language.

“The big difference between conservatives and liberals is that … no one has tried to kill Kamala Harris in the last few months and now two people have tried to kill Donald Trump in the last few months,” Vance said in comments that drew pushback from the House White.

During the election campaign, Vance has described Walz and Harris as radical liberals.

He has also questioned Walz’s descriptions of his military history and his family’s struggles with infertility.

Vance, who served in the Marine Corps and was a public affairs officer during a six-month stint in Iraq, accused Walz of leaving the Army National Guard to avoid being deployed to Iraq and of falsely suggesting he served in combat.

Walz, who served in the Guard for 24 years, retired to run for Congress. He has defended his record, but the Harris campaign has acknowledged that he was wrong in a 2018 video in which he referenced “weapons of war that I took to war.” Walz never served in a combat zone.

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