“The Candidates actually listened to one another,” exclaims Charles Lipton in Spectator. Senator JD Vance and Governor Tim Walz delivered a serious debate for high office, claims pundits Lipton and WSJ’s Daniel Henninger. “It was calm but impassioned, thoughtful, and truly helpful to any voter who wants to understand the policy differences between the two tickets.”
Tim Walz did what was asked of him: he made a strong, coherent argument for the top of the ticket.
A Job Too Big
In NRO, Jim Geraghty is being kind, writing that Tuesday night couldn’t have gone much better for one Vep-hopeful. J. D. Vance was polished, smooth, and detail-oriented.
A Happy Warrior
Tim Walz, however, Kamala’s Veep choice, also bordered on the erratic. When improvising, he looked like an erupting volcano. The contrast couldn’t have been starker. “A vice-presidential nominee only gets two big moments in the campaign spotlight — the convention speech and the debate. Vance aced both,” praises Jim Geraghty in NRO. J.D. Vance stood out as a happy warrior.
Fish Tales from Minnesota
The Minnesota guy looked like it just registered that the job is too big for him. His default expression? One of worry, never a commanding presence. As you watched Walz glancing down at his notes much too often, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Walz was trying to solve a challenging crossword puzzle.
Minnesota Public Radio Is Apprehensive Walz Was at Tiananmen Square
CNN moderator Margaret Brennon asked Waltz about the discrepancy of his boasting of being in Hong Kong during the deadly Tiananmen Square protest in the spring of 1989.
Brennon: “Minnesota Public Radio and other media outlets are reporting that you actually didn’t travel to Asia until August of that year. Can you explain that discrepancy? You have two minutes.”
Walz did explain, “I need to be clearer” after a series of misstatements and exaggerations about his experiences and biography created a distraction for Democrats weeks before the election.
Knuklehead, a Heartbeat Away
Blah, blah, blah, bleated Tim Walz, before finally explaining repeated false statements about being in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square protests in China., “No. All I said on this was, is, I got there that summer and misspoke on this, so I will just, that’s what I’ve said. So I was in Hong Kong and China during the democracy protest, went in, and from that, I learned a lot of what needed to be in governance.”
“I’m a knucklehead at times,” self-incriminated Mr. Walz (but please, voters, put me a heartbeat away from the presidency in a dangerous world).
Really, Mr.Walz? God help us all.
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