How to watch both the debate and the election
The CBS tv debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris: a close look at two different approaches to tech issues during the November 2016 presidential debate
Unlike the last ABC debate between former president Donald Trump and vice president Kamala Harris, the microphones will remain on for the duration of the debate. The candidates will have two minutes to answer questions, two minutes to respond to their opponents, and one minute for rebuttals.
Like this year’s presidential debates, there will not be an audience. The candidates will be introduced starting with Walz because he’s in the incumbent party, but there won’t be opening statements. He chose to go second after a coin toss and give his closing statement.
The former teacher and the Hillbilly Elegy author both had stances on tech. After ride-haling app companies threatened to leave the state if his veto of a bill to raise the minimum pay for their drivers was not reversed, he signed a different bill to raise the pay of their drivers by an estimated 20 percent.
He has ruffled feathers with the stance he has taken on tech competition regulation. The former venture capitalist praised the Federal Trade Commission Chair for her progressive enforcement and rulemaking on technology, even though it was critiqued in a Wall Street Journal op-ed.
Tuesday’s debate will likely focus more on some of the key issues in this election, including immigration policy, reproductive healthcare, and the economy, but we’ll be listening in for any hints at how a Trump or Harris administration would impact tech.
The debate will be hosted by CBS and will be aired across the network’s broadcast and streaming channels, including Paramount Plus, CBSnews.com, and YouTube. Other major broadcasters and news channels will air it, as well as the one on tv, like most other debates.
Margaret Brennan, chief foreign affairs correspondent for CBS, will moderate the debate with Norah O’Donnell, anchor and managing editor of CBS Evening News.
The candidates will get two minutes to answer each question and two minutes to provide responses, with one minute for rebuttals. There is a choice of giving an additional minute to keep the topic going. The candidates won’t have a heads-up on questions and aren’t allowed to bring prewritten notes.
CBS Live Fact Checking: Where Are The Dems? What Do They Say About Kamala Harris, Donald P. Trump, and John Vance?
Rather than have the moderators jump in to fact-check in real time, CBS plans to display a QR code on the screen for viewers watching its channel, directing them to a live fact-checking page.
Going into Tuesday’s debate, former president Donald Trump and vice president Kamala Harris are neck and neck in the polls. A recent New York Times average of national polls shows Harris in the lead, but neither of the candidates has a significant lead in battleground states like Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.
Prior to being an Ohio senator, he built his profile as a Silicon Valley venture capitalist and author of a memoir about his life as a young adult from Ohio. In California, he was connected with tech investors like the one who gave millions to his Senate campaign. Walz, a former congressperson and current governor of Minnesota, was not as high-profile of a pick as Vance, but the Kamala Harris campaign has leveraged his background as a former teacher, football coach, and veteran to appeal to rural America. Walz has inspired much of the Democrats’ election messaging, like calling the GOP “weird.”
Neither candidate was asked about Ukraine, where these two campaigns have fundamentally different views, and Vance, in particular, has been a vocal critic of U.S. aid for Ukraine.
Walz didn’t have to account for his military record timeline or his misstatements on carrying weapons of war. Vance wasn’t asked about his “stolen valor” accusations about Walz’s service, either.
No one votes for the vice-presidential pick, so this debate likely will not have much effect on this presidential campaign. After all, the most important rule of being a running mate is, “First, do no harm.”
What Do We Really Know About American Politics? Donald Trump, Culture, and Politics: The Importance of Being Open and Confident
That exposes one of the biggest issues in America: People don’t agree on a shared set of facts. People have their own ideologies and are finding others who affirm what they believe — whether Trump or posts on social media — rather than having their minds changed by contrary evidence.
Trump played to cultural grievance by suggesting tariffs will pay for child care, which they won’t, because he told people there were simple solutions to complex problems. Vance embraces this line of thinking and says voters should trust Trump over others. Giving the example of conventional wisdom about the global economy, Vance said, “For the first time in a generation, Donald Trump had the wisdom and the courage to say to that bipartisan consensus, ‘We’re not doing it anymore.’ They called it that.
That posture mirrors how the right more broadly in the last decade of American politics has moved away from believing experts. Democrats have had to deal with being seen as elitist and talking to lower income voters. Republicans, like Trump, have exploited that.
On the Real (and The) Real (Mark Vance: How he Went to Hong Kong in 1989, and Why he Came to America
Walz’s best moments of the night came when talking about Jan. 6 and the 2020 presidential election. In one instance, Walz asked if Trump had lost the election. It was the real threat to democracy, rather thancensorship that the true threat to democracy was.
Instead of directly saying he misspoke, Walz gave a meandering answer that included him saying, “I will talk a lot,” which could imply you can’t believe everything he says.
He was weak when it came to his responses to questions about his time in China. During the spring of 1989 protesters took to the streets of Hong Kong, and Walz has said that he was there. Minnesota Public Radio and others have reported that he didn’t actually travel there until later in the summer.
Another Vance appeared Tuesday evening, one largely respectful of his opponent, despite his lower popularity than any VP running mate in modern history. The booing that takes place when a reporter asks a question at the campaign trail is far cry from the clapping and clapping of the folks at CBS.
On style, Vance was clearly more polished than Walz, and he likely accomplished what he sought out to do — appear more rational and agreeable than Trump and, frankly, himself. There is a real question as to who the real Vance is. He was once a Trump critic, who became one of Trump’s biggest cheerleaders. Since that transformation, he’s gotten a reputation as a hard-charging MAGA partisan willing to take on all comers, known for making controversial statements, whether about “childless cat ladies,” not caring what happens to Ukraine “one way or another” or propagating false claims about immigrants eating pets.
The only vice-presidential debate will feature arguments for and against, as well as for and against each other, on the part of Democrats and Republicans.
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom: The Vance-Walz Debate. And, Biden to assess North Carolina after Hurricane Helene
The birthday of former President Jimmy Carter was yesterday. The 39th president, who has been in home hospice care since February 2023, received birthday wishes from many, including President Biden. Plains held a parade in honor of him. Carter is the longest-living person to have served as a U.S. president.
There is a game named after the princess of the series that has been around for nearly four decades, but it has not had much attention until recently. Link plays the main character and saves the world from evil and saves Princess Zelda. She now flips the script by grabbing her wand to save a trapped Link in the series’ latest addition, The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom.
President Biden visits North Carolina today to assess the slow recovery in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. The death toll continues to climb in the southeast. Tens of thousands still lack electricity, water, cell service or all three.
Netanyahu vowed to retaliate against Iran for the missile attack that took place last night. Iran launched approximately 180 missiles, forcing millions of people across the country into bomb shelters. This comes after Israel’s recent killing of Hasan Nasrallah, the leader of the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah.
Source: Fact-checking the Vance-Walz debate. And, Biden to assess N.C. after Hurricane Helene
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