VP debate live updates: Vance thrived on stage while Walz struggled to find his footing

A botched late-term abortion isn’t a thing, but Vance also falsely said he has “not supported a national ban.” During the Senate race, he said he supported Senator Lindsey Graham’s proposal to ban abortions at 15 weeks of pregnancy.

While Walz gets emotional discussing complicated and life-threatening pregnancies and abortion care, Vance invokes a woman who needed an abortion while skirting his support for preventing her from getting one.

When confronted with the issue of abortion, Vance repeated the same policies that Trump has: leave abortion up to the states.

Vance promoted “pro-family” ideas to support Americans raise children.

But when further pushed on his past statements about supporting a “national minimum standard”, Vance falsely claimed he never supported a national abortion “ban”.

On the issue of reproductive rights and abortion, Vance is a slightly disadvantage. Democrats have been campaigning hard on the issue.

Moderators asked Vance about his previous criticisms of Donald Trump – something multiple outlets have reported on.

Like Walz, Vance said he “was wrong about Donald Trump.”

James Comer, chair of the House Oversight Committee, wants the FBI to investigate what he is calling Walz’s “longstanding connections” to the Chinese Communist Party “that make him susceptible to the Party’s strategy of elite capture, which seeks to co-opt influential figures in elite political, cultural, and academic circles to influence the United States to the benefit of the communist regime and the detriment of Americans.”

Trump’s campaign tonight is calling him “Tiananmen Tim” and promoting a “federal congressional investigation” that his own ally is launching.

Walz taught English and American history in China through Harvard University’s WorldTeach program in the late 1980s. He later started a program called Educational Travel Adventures with his wife Gwen Walz, who is also a teacher, to organize summer trips to China for American high school students.

Walz was one of the “first government sanctioned groups of American educators” in China after the country opened its doors to the world in the 1980s, and he was in China during pro-democracy protests in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989.

Moderators have confronted Walz about a trip he claimed to have taken to Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square protests but got the exact dates incorrect.

Walz attempted to circumvent an answer but ultimately admitted he “misspoke” about the timing of the trip.

“I got there that summer and I misspoke on this,” Walz said.

He added, “I’m a knucklehead at times,” Walz said.”