.png)
During their face-off, both candidates discussed the most important topics high on voters' minds. Here are some of the top moments.
WASHINGTON — Now that presidential candidates, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, have faced off in the ring, it's time to tag their partners in. In the right corner hailing from Ohio, is Senator J.D. Vance. In the left corner Minnesota Governor Tim Walz will represent the Democratic party.
Vance and Walz negotiated terms and rules with the network and they are as follows:
VP Debate Rules:
The candidates will stand behind lecterns, will not make opening statements and will not be allowed to bring notes during the 90-minute debate. Microphones will not be muted while the other candidate talks, though CBS said it does reserve the right to mute the candidates' microphone.
Candidates are only allowed to have a pen, a pad of paper and a bottle of water.
In terms of fact-checking, the network said that it will be up to the candidates to keep each other honest at Tuesday's debate — a sticking point from earlier debates this year.
In the June debate between Trump and Biden, CNN's Jake Tapper and Dana Bash limited follow-up questions and did not fact-check either participant. In the September debate between Trump and Harris, ABC's David Muir and Linsey Davis interjected with matter-of-fact corrections to some of Trump's most glaring misstatements.
With the rules in place, it's time to see who will take home the belt.
Topic: Would you support or oppose a preemptive strike by Israel on Iran?
Walz response: When our allies see Donald Trump turn to Putin, turn to North Korea, when we start to see that type of fickleness around holding the coalitions together. We will stay committed and as our Vice President said today, 'we will protect our forces and our allied forces and their will be consequences.'
Vance response: I want to answer the question, but I actually want to give an introduction to myself... I was raised in a working class family. My mother required food assistance for periods of her life. My grandmother required social security to help raise me and she raised me in part because my mother struggled with addiction. Now to answer this question we have to remember... Donald Trump actually delivered stability in the world and he did it by establishing effective deterrence, people were afraid of stepping out of line. Iran which launched this attack, has received over $100B in unfrozen assets thanks to the Kamala Harris administration. They used that money to launch weapons which they are now using against our allies. It is up to Israel what they think they need to do to keep their country safe and we should support our allies wherever they are when they're fighting the bad guys. I think that's the right approach to take
Walz rebuttal: When Donald Trump was in office, it was Donald Trump who had a coalition of nations that had boxed Iran's nuclear program in the inability to advance it. Donald Trump pulled that program and put nothing else in its place. So Iran is closer to a nuclear weapon they were before because of Donald Trump's fickle leadership.
Topic: What responsibility would the Trump administration have to try and reduce the impact of climate change?
Vance response: A lot of people are worried about these crazy weather patterns, I think it's important for us to first of all say, Donald Trump and I support clean air, clean water, we want the environment to be safer. But one of the things I've noticed some of our democratic friends talking about is, a concern about carbon emissions, this idea that carbon drives all of the climate change. Let's just say that's true, so we're not arguing about weird science. If you believe that, what would you want to do? The answer is you'd want to reassure as much American manufactures and you'd want to produce as much energy as possible in the United States because we're the cleanest economy in the entire world. What have Kamala Harris' policy led to? More energy production in China. More manufacturing overseas. More doing business in some of the dirtiest parts of the entire world. If we actually care about getting cleaner air and cleaner water, the best thing to do is to double down and invest in American workers.
Walz response: Senator Vance has said that there is climate change problem, Donald Trump called it a hoax and then joked that these things would make more beach front properties to be able to invest in. What we've seen out of the Harris administration now, we've seen the investment. The biggest in global history, that we've seen in the global reduction act has created jobs all across the country. 200,000 jobs across the entire country, the most we've seen in North America. But my farmers in Minnesota know climate change is real, they've seen 500 year droughts, 500 year floods back-to-back. We're producing more natural gas and more oil at any time than we ever have, we're also producing more clean energy. So the solution for us is to continue to move forward, that climate change is real, reducing our impact is absolutely critical.
English (US) ·