Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) and Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) will face off Tuesday in the first and only vice presidential debate of the 2024 cycle. When you're deeply involved in politics, it's easy to attach great importance to the vice presidential debate. It's worth remembering that people who haven't yet decided who to vote for are the same kinds of people who aren't going to spend Tuesday night watching the gubernatorial and senatorial debates. This reality means that these types of events are becoming more and more like team sports, with different sections rooting for the players rather than watching to learn a little more about their selections.
Of course, this time may be different. The lack of top-tier debates in this race, the bunkering strategy of Walz and Kamala Harris, and the perception that this is the last debate of the cycle combine to bring perhaps more attention to this contest than ever before. It means coming together.
Mr. Walz's politically calculated lies undermine the popular “Coach Walz” reputation that Democrats have worked hard to build from scratch.
Additionally, the Trump campaign has made such deep inroads into popular culture that AI images and techno remixes may include controversial lines like “eat dog” and “eat cat.” level of internet fame Even the elusive and lost cannot help but notice. This kind of viral success could help overcome the reality exposed by the paywalled Rasmussen report: that only 1% of presidential debate audiences had yet made up their minds. There is.
The reality for Democrats is that Mr. Walz has more to lose than Mr. Vance. Walz has joined the running mate behind the scenes as Democrats across the country face pressure to respond to presidential policy announcements that Harris herself has refused to explain. Axios analysis In an article published on September 19th, Vance's media appearances include national television (24-1), local television (15-1), press conferences (12-0), and national newspapers (8-0). was shown to have defeated Waltz many times.
To make matters worse, the man Democrats wanted to portray as a Homer Simpson-like American father has stumbled time and time again in a career full of politically calculated lies — just like that. That's what Vance's team intends to remind the nation with this incident. discussion. Here are five people who could appear on Tuesday night.
Stolen courage. This is the most obvious attack vector, yet the corporate media does everything in its power to argue otherwise. Most reporters were so far removed from military service that weekends in the National Guard seemed indistinguishable from serving in a combat zone. Unfortunately for Democrats, in a decade of interviews and speeches, Mr. Walz has made blatantly false claims about his retired rank, the reason for his resignation, and his non-existent military service in a combat zone. It turned out. His fellow soldiers have receipts to back it up.
What started out as a major talking point for Democrats quickly faded into the background. The memory of John Kerry's quick boat escape still haunts me. By the time he coyly sat down next to his boss in CNN's Dana Bash's big interview, he had excused his 10 years of stolen courage as a grammatical error.
Then there's the time he blamed the mayor for the deadly riots in Minneapolis. It's not a joke. He traveled to the torched city, where a police precinct was among dozens of buildings destroyed by insurgent criminal gangs, and lashed out at city officials. When the mayor made text messages and phone calls imploring the governor to send in the National Guard, Walz's officials said those did not count as National Guard troops. formal request. Grammar and formal requests. It's truly amazing.
And then there's the whole IVF thing. IVF is a big part of Waltz's identity. The article made its debut at the Democratic National Convention as a story of personal outrage highlighting the Republican Party's push to outlaw infertility treatments. Democratic reporters repeated this. NBC aired an article about his family's “seven-year IVF journey.” The taxpayer-funded NPR called Waltz “a new kind of reproductive messenger.”
The problem is, it was all a lie. Walz and his wife had never used IVF, and none of them had conceived a child through it. Moreover, not a single Republican has advocated outlawing the process. Another obvious political lie. Politically useful lies are almost constant for Waltz.
He once claimed schoolchildren in Minnesota. Did not miss school for more than 10 days during the novel coronavirus infection period. In fact, he ordered schools closed for the remainder of the school year.
He also falsely claimed that President Trump wanted to create a government agency to monitor women's pregnancies to prevent abortions. Walz said the agency is the brainchild of conservative Project 2025. Mr. Trump has never suggested anything like that. There is also no mention of it in the Project 2025 proposal, which in any case is not part of the Trump campaign and has been repeatedly disavowed by Republican candidates.
None of this is vulgar exaggeration. As The Spectator's Ben Domenech pointed out on the magazine's podcast, they bear no resemblance to, say, Joe Biden's ubiquitous threads. These are all politically calculated lies that run counter to the popular “Coach Waltz” reputation that Democrats and their friends in the media have worked hard to build from the ground up.
“If Waltz had simply claimed to have worn an onion on his belt (the style of the day), his offensive fiction would have a certain appeal.” domenech I wrote. “Rather, it reads as the bizarre side of a newly nationalized political figure who lies not only to entertain but also to profit from bored voters.”
Together, these form calculated habits. If Vance decides to lean on them Tuesday night, things could go south quickly.
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