Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) said Thursday that he has agreed to an Oct. 1 debate with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) hosted by CBS News, setting the stage for at least one televised showdown between the Republican and Democratic vice-presidential nominees before the general election in November.<\/p>\n
Vance said he not only accepted the Oct. 1 invitation but also challenged Walz to another debate in September.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe American people deserve as many debates as possible \u2026\u201d Vance wrote on X. \u201cNot only do I accept the CBS debate on October 1st, I accept the CNN debate on September 18th as well. I look forward to seeing you at both!\u201d<\/p>\n
According to CBS News, the network proposed four dates for a vice-presidential debate.<\/p>\n
Walz said Wednesday at a Boston fundraiser that he had accepted an invitation to debate Vance on Oct. 1.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m really looking forward to how that goes. \u2026 We have very different visions of America,\u201d Walz said then.<\/p>\n
Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019s campaign also confirmed Wednesday that Walz had agreed to the Oct. 1 debate.<\/p>\n
The scheduling of at least one vice-presidential debate comes after weeks of reticence from former president Donald Trump over whether he would debate Harris after she became the Democratic presidential nominee.<\/p>\n
Trump had previously agreed to debate President Joe Biden on Sept. 10 on ABC News, but pulled out after Biden announced last month that he would not seek reelection.<\/p>\n
After much back and forth, Trump said last week that he would debate Harris on Sept. 10 after all, according to ABC. Trump also proposed two other debates.<\/p>\n
Dylan Wells contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) said Thursday that he has agreed to an Oct. 1 debate with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) hosted by CBS News, setting the stage for at least one televised showdown between the Republican and Democratic vice-presidential nominees before the general election in November. Vance said he not only accepted the Oct. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7941,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}