Vance shows polish, Walz hits him on Jan. 6 in notably civil VP debate
03 Oct
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Vance shows polish, Walz hits him on Jan. 6 in notably civil VP debate

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Politics tamfitronics Ohio Sen. JD Vance showed he was the more deft debater when he met Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz onstage for their vice presidential debate Tuesday night, with both candidates taking a much more civil approach than their running mates did onstage last month.Senator Vance showed a level of polish and empathy onstage that was notably different from his standard political persona, looking to find humanizing moments throughout the evening.Politics tamfitronics Why We Wrote ThisJD Vance used the U.S. vice presidential debate to show an empathetic side. Tim Walz called out Mr. Vance for avoiding a question on the 2020 election outcome. Both showed a level of civility now rare in national politics.Governor Walz started off haltingly and was the less polished of the two, stumbling over a few points, and missing some opportunities...
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Tim Walz, J. D. Vance, and the Politics of Place
01 Oct
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Tim Walz, J. D. Vance, and the Politics of Place

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Politics tamfitronics American democracy has never been entirely democratic. But, though the country’s Founders did not seek to empower every person, they did think a lot about how to empower almost every place. Most of human history before the nation’s founding had featured rulers who were so local that they were either in your family or in your neighborhood. Rulers not only knew your pain; they had felt it and even lived it, too. A democracy spanning great distances, then, such as the one envisioned by the Founders of the United States, was both a relatively new and deeply intimidating proposition. Elected leaders—congressmen, senators—might start off as neighbors, but they would then go on to distant places like the capital, where they would rule as strangers.And yet a national élite drawn from many places but...
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Walz v Vance: two midwesterners miles apart in politics ready for debate
29 Sep
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Walz v Vance: two midwesterners miles apart in politics ready for debate

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Politics tamfitronics The football coach and the “Yale law guy” go head-to-head in New York City on Tuesday night, as two midwesterners with very different styles and vastly diverging messages slug it out over the future of the US.Tim Walz, the Democratic governor of Minnesota, faces the Republican senator from Ohio, JD Vance, in a vice-presidential debate that promises to be unusually significant in this white-hot election year. They will joust for 90 minutes under the moderation of CBS News as they seek to give their respective running mates – Kamala Harris and Donald Trump – a leg up to the White House.Walz has been prepping for the debate in Minneapolis with the US transportation secretary, Pete Buttigieg, masquerading as Vance. (Buttigieg may have been suffering deja vu – he posed as Mike Pence during...
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