Cuộc tranh luận của Phó Tổng thống Walz-Vance: Cập nhật trực tiếp, kiểm tra thực tế và phản ứng sau khi các ứng cử viên đối mặt thân mật

During Tuesday’s vice presidential debate between Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, each candidate made questionable and sometimes downright false assertions.

Those included:

• Vance’s depictions of Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, as “illegal immigrants”

• Walz’s claim that Project 2025 calls for establishing a national “registry of pregnancies”

• Vance saying he had “never supported a national ban” on abortion

• And Walz trying to explain his statements about visiting China during the Tiananmen Square protest crackdown

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Yahoo News’ Andrew Romano lays out four key takeaways from tonight’s vice presidential debate:

2. A stark difference on Jan. 6. There was one confrontational moment, however, and it came near the end, when the CBS moderators asked Vance — who has said that if he had been vice president instead of Mike Pence he would not have certified the 2020 presidential election on the basis of Trump’s false claims of fraud — whether he would “again seek to challenge this year’s election results.”

3. Vance tries to clean up Trump’s messaging mess. Vance pulled the same maneuver throughout the debate: he would admit that Harris’s proposals “are halfway decent” (housing) or “even sound pretty good” (lowering cost of living) before questioning why she hasn’t implemented them.

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Tim and Gwen Walz marked the end of the debate by going to a nearby pizzeria — Justino’s — to grab a slicen

The Harris campaign celebrated tonight’s debate with a statement from campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon:

When asked about Vance’s refusal to answer whether Trump lost the 2020 election, the senator from Arkansas responded by praiing how Vance stood up for the democratic process in the portion of the debate focused on abortion.

“I thought JD gave a very good answer on the way American democracy works. He said he has his personal views [on abortion], but the people of Ohio disagreed with him. Just like the people of California are going to have a different view than the people of Alabama or Ohio. I think he respects the American people.”

During the interview, Cotton also declined to answer a question about whether the results of the 2020 race were legitimate.

While discussing abortion policy during the debate, Tim Walz shared stories about women affected by the overturning of Roe v. Wade. One of those stories focused on Amber Thurman, a Georgia woman who died after a routine medical procedure was delayed due to the state’s strict laws surrounding abortion.

Her family issued a statement following the debate:

The former president praised his running mate in a post on Truth Social, making the case that Vance showed how the nation would “never be able to recover” if Kamala Harris and Tim Walz were elected.

Both Sen. JD Vance and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz are heading back to the campaign trail Wednesday with events scheduled in battleground states.

Walz will kick off a bus tour through Pennsylvania, with stops in Harrisburg, Reading and York. On the third stop, Walz will be joined by Sen. John Fetterman, a York native.

Sen. JD Vance will travel to Michigan for an appearance at an aerospace company in Auburn Hills on Wednesday afternoon.

After about an hour and 40 minutes, the first and only vice presidential debate of the 2024 election cycle has concluded. Despite stark differences on policy, it was a largely cordial affair.

“I’m going to thank Sen. Vance,” Walz said at one point. “I think this is the conversation [the voters] want to hear. And I think there’s a lot of agreement.”

It may also be the last debate before Election Day, as former President Donald Trump has not agreed to a second debate with Vice President Kamala Harris.

During a discussion about Trump’s response to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, Walz pressed Vance on the former president’s refusal to admit he lost the 2020 presidential election.

“This was a threat to our democracy in a way that we had not seen,” Walz said. “And it manifested itself because of Donald Trump’s inability to say — he is still saying — he didn’t lose the election. I would just ask [you] that. Did he lose the 2020 election?”

“Tim, I’m focused on the future,” Vance replied. “Did Kamala Harris censor Americans from speaking their mind in the wake of the 2020 COVID situation?”

“That is a damning nonanswer,” Walz said.

Vance: “Remember, he said that on January the 6th, the protesters ought to protest peacefully and on January the 20th, what happened? Joe Biden became the president. Donald Trump left the White House.”

This claim is false. Biden did become president on Jan. 20, but only after a violent mob stormed the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to prevent Biden’s victory from being certified by Congress. To this day, Trump refuses to acknowledge his loss in the 2020 presidential election.

If you’re just tuning in to the debate, here’s another quick recap of what you missed:

• During the second half of the debate, the candidates sparred over numerous topics, including abortion, gun violence and health care.

• Vance and Walz expressed starkly different positions on abortion and gun laws. Vance said abortion should be left up to individual states, and denied that he and Trump would support a national abortion ban. Walz said women should be allowed to make decisions about their own bodies, regardless of where they live. “These are women’s decisions,” Walz said, sharing stories about women affected by the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

• In a discussion about gun violence, Walz scoffed at Vance’s assertion that the focus should be on school safety and mental health. The governor suggested Vance is “looking for a scapegoat. Sometimes it just is the guns.”

• On the issue of child care, Walz said that he supports paid family leave. Vance did not answer directly, saying, “We should have a family care model.”

While blaming Donald Trump for the reversal of Roe v. Wade, Walz shared several personal stories of women affected by the Supreme Court decision — including those of Amanda Zurawski, who was denied an abortion in Texas when she went into labor at 18 weeks, and Hadley Duvall, who as a 12-year-old was raped and impregnated by her stepfather.

Vance: “When Obamacare was crushing under the weight of its own regulatory burden and health care costs, Donald Trump could have destroyed the program. Instead, he worked in a bipartisan way to ensure that Americans had access to affordable care.”

This claim is false. Repealing the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, was a key pillar of Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign and the law only survived because a vote to end it failed by a single vote in the Senate. His administration also backed failed efforts to have the ACA struck down by the Supreme Court.

Most of Trump’s actions toward the law after the repeal effort failed involved chipping away at it, including pushing legislation that repealed the ACA’s individual mandate, cutting funding used to market the program and help people sign up, ending subsidies for insurers offering plans through Obamacare and loosening restrictions on cheaper, lower-quality plans that didn’t comply with ACA rules.

Read more from PolitiFact: “Vance misleads: Trump tried to take the Affordable Care Act down, not build upon it”

During a discussion about gun violence in schools, Vance said the focus should be on mental health and making schools safer, and not stricter gun laws. Walz disagreed while noting that he and Vice President Kamala Harris are gun owners.

“We understand that the Second Amendment is there, but our first responsibility is to our kids,” Walz said.

“This idea of stigmatizing mental health, just because you have a mental health issue doesn’t mean you’re violent,” Walz added. “And I think what we end up doing is we start looking for a scapegoat. Sometimes it is just the guns.