Elections 2024 live: What time and how to watch Vance and Walz take the vice presidential debate stage tonight
While his campaign manages expectations ahead of vice presidential debate, Trump lashes out at Kamala Harris’s running mate
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The Trump campaign appears to be trying to manage expectations ahead of tonight’s vice presidential debate between Senator JD Vance and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, but Donald Trump doesn’t seem to be on message, calling Kamala Harris’s running mate “a moron”.
Earlier, during a campaign call with reporters, senior Trump adviser Jason Miller said: “Walz is very good in debates. I want to repeat that: Tim Walz is very good in debates. Really good. He’s been a politician for nearly 20 years. He’ll be very well-prepared for tomorrow night.”
Walz will square up to Vance on the debate stage on Tuesday evening in what promises to be a hugely consequential and fiery encounter in New York. Betting odds currently favor the Democrat.
Meanwhile, Trump has continued to try to attack Harris and Joe Biden over the federal response to Hurricane Helene, which has wrought havoc in states including Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina. State governors have said they have received the support they need.
As the Biden administration coordinates the response to the disaster, the president and vice president are also monitoring Iran’s attack on Israel from the White House Situation Room.
Lincoln Project calls Vance ‘conniving liar’ who will ‘sane-wash ... Trump’s crazy and dangerous positions'
Anti-Trump conservative group The Lincoln Project has hit out at Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance, calling him “a conniving liar who will sane-wash and make palatable all of Trump’s crazy and dangerous positions”.
“Vance is a misogynist who has twisted, dark plans for America to turn women’s rights back 100 years,” said Lincoln Project Chief of Staff Ryan Wiggins. She continued, “Tonight he will lie about Trump’s past, lie about his own support for Project 2025, and deny that he ever believed Trump was ‘America’s Hitler’. The only thing Vance can be counted on is to defend Trump and wear terrible makeup.”
Watch the group’s latest ad here:
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