Vice presidential candidates Vance and Walz will square off tonight in New York City in their first and likely only debate before the November election.
The debate kicks off at 8 p.m. CST with moderators Margaret Brennan and Norah O'Donnell, who are both veteran journalists on the famous TV network.
When the questioning begins, Tim Graham of the Media Research Center says he will be watching for biased topics and questions from the moderators. That’s because MRC analysts found news coverage at CBS News has been 85% positive for the Harris-Walz ticket compared to 81% negative for the Trump-Vance ticket.
“Are they going to sound like prosecutors with the Republicans and then sound like facilitators with the Democrats?” Graham asks.
Conservative activist Gary Bauer, of the Campaign for Working Families, predicts the debate could be “significant” since it appears to be the final debate before Election Day now five weeks away.
During the back-and-forth discussion, Bauer says the debate will give Vance an opportunity to expose the governor as a far-left radical on the ticket.
“She didn't go to the center with that selection. She went far left,” Bauer says. “So I think J.D. Vance might have a real opportunity to show just how far left the governor is and, by doing so, remind people of just how far left Kamala Harris is."
Washington Times columnist Robert Knight tells AFN that Walz will likely be on the defensive during the debate, beginning with his “cozy” relationship with China. That history includes a one-year teaching job, a visiting fellow at Macau Polytechnic University, and returning to China every year to take high school students there through a company he established, Educational Travel Adventures, Inc.
Walz and his wife even honeymooned in the communist country in 1993.
On the eve of tonight’s debate, the Harris-Walz campaign is now changing the number of student trips Walz says he led – 15 trips instead of 30 – according to a Fox News story.
When Walz steps on the stage tonight, Knight says, the V.P. nominee will have to defend every “radical aspect” of the Democratic Party’s agenda.
“From open immigration and unsecured borders to their radical environmental movement that wants to ban gasoline-powered cars,” Knight says.
