Top Moments From the Vance-Walz VP Debate

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

42% : "My party, we've got to do so much better of a job at earning the American people's trust back on this issue where they frankly just don't trust us," he said, while maintaining that he agrees with Trump that abortion rights should be decided at a state level.
40% : "The moderators asked Vance about his transition from a vocal critic of Trump to a staunch supporter -- and why Americans should trust that he will give the former President honest advice if elected.
38% : (Kamala Harris is proposing a $6,000 child tax credit for families in the first year after a baby is born; Vance has also floated an expanded child tax credit, although Trump has not committed to one.)
37% : He criticized the Biden Administration's energy policies, asserting that bringing more manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. could help limit carbon emissions: "If we actually care about getting clean air and clean water, the best thing to do is to double down and invest in American workers and the American people," Vance said.
30% : Trump, who started a costly trade war with China during his presidency, is also known for boasting about his relationship with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
20% : Read More: J.D. Vance Tries to Gaslight America Into Thinking He's Moderate on AbortionWalz said "things worked best when Roe v. Wade was in place" and accused Vance of citing policy proposals Trump hadn't fully endorsed.
19% : Vance took a more aggressive stance, echoing sentiments expressed by Trump and framing the strike by Iran as a direct consequence of perceived weakness in U.S. foreign policy under the Biden-Harris Administration.
16% : Meanwhile, Vance, a first-term Senator from Ohio and self-proclaimed "policy attack dog" for Trump, sought to highlight what he framed as failures of the Biden-Harris Administration, particularly on issues of the economy and immigration.
16% : Before he ran for the Senate, Vance called Trump a "cultural heroin" and said he feared he could be "America's Hitler.
14% : The stakes were especially high for Vance, who has faced scrutiny for a series of controversial statements, including his earlier comments about "childless cat ladies" and misleading claims regarding Haitian immigrants in Ohio, and took the stage on Tuesday following an underwhelming debate performance last month by Trump against Harris.
13% : He said that Vance once deemed mass deportation proposals "laughable" and authored a 2016 opinion piece in which he called Trump "unfit for our nation's highest office.
11% : Walz accused Vance of demonizing migrants rather than seeking constructive solutions to immigration issues, pointing specifically to a bipartisan immigration reform bill supported by border patrol that Republican allies of Trump in Congress killed earlier this year.
10% : Harris and Walz have expressed commitment to protecting U.S. regional allies against Chinese aggression and are vocal critics of China's human rights record, while Trump and Vance have focused mostly on advocating for further tariffs against Chinese goods.
7% : But when pressed point-blank by Walz on whether he believed Trump lost the 2020 election, Vance deflected.

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