Tim Walz versus J.D. Vance was the anti-Trump debate. There were no references to the animal kingdom in this Vice-Presidential debate. There were no sharp attacks about abortion. There were no vituperative comments about a lack of character. There weren’t even any assessments of golf handicaps à la Joe Biden and Donald Trump during their first debate.
Vance subtly detached himself from Trump’s bluff and bombast by coming across as MAGA with a human face
Instead, on CBS News on Tuesday evening, two Midwesterners, one from Ohio, the other Minnesota, maintained a genial tone, vying with each other to express their fervour for bipartisanship and conviction that each wants nothing but the best for America. So much for polarisation. It was not until the very end of their soporiferous encounter that Tim Walz finally took on a harder edge as he asked J.D. Vance whether he was prepared to acknowledge that Donald Trump had lost the 2020 election.
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