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Thirteen Thoughts On The VP Debate

Sometimes the worse debater can come out on top.

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Brian Beutler
Oct 02, 2024
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  • My overarching takeaway is that while JD Vance is a more polished formal debater than Tim Walz, and a born natural like Pete Buttigieg might’ve done a better job exploiting the opportunity, Walz still won.

  • Through the first hour and a half of the debate, I found myself frustrated by Walz’s excessive civility, and by watching him miss opportunities to twist the knife. But Walz elicited what I think will be the only exchange that will escape the black hole of VP debates:

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