US VICE PRESIDENTIAL contenders JD Vance and Tim Walz faced off in a surprisingly civil debate overnight, despite tense moments on the hot topics of migration, abortion and the threat of war in the Middle East.
Republican Vance and Democrat Walz dug into policy and avoided the bitter personal attacks that presidential candidates Donald Trump and Kamala Harris exchanged during an often-heated clash in September.
Vance and his wife Usha Vance talk with Walz and his wife Gwen Walz after the vice presidential debate Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo
But the shadow of their bosses hung over the CBS debate, with Walz attacking Trump as a threat to democracy and unfit to lead America on the world stage, and Vance slamming Harris’s record on the economy and illegal migration as part of President Joe Biden’s administration.
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