How to watch the vice presidential debate between Tim Walz and JD Vance
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October 12, 2024Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Ohio Sen. JD Vance, each nominees for vice president, will debate onstage during a CBS broadcast at 9PM ET on Tuesday.
By Lauren Feiner, a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) and Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) will meet on the debate stage on Tuesday night, representing their parties’ tickets in hopes of becoming the next vice president. The former school teacher and the Hillbilly Elegy author have each taken some significant stances on tech. Walz, for example, navigated a power struggle between ridehailing apps and their drivers, vetoing a state bill to raise minimum pay for Uber and Lyft drivers after the companies threatened to leave the state, then signing a different bill to raise driver pay an estimated 20 percent without losing what he saw as a key mode of transportation for many Minnesotans. Vance has ruffled feathers in his own party with his stance on tech competition regulation. The former venture capitalist and Peter Thiel protégé has praised Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan as “one of the few people in the Biden administration that I actually think is doing a pretty good job,” even though her progressive enforcement and rulemaking on tech is often the subject of critical Wall Street Journal op-eds and corporate pushback. Tuesday’s debate will likely focus more on some of the key issues in this election, including immigration policy, reproductive healthcare, and the economy, but we’ll be listening in for any hints at how a Trump or Harris administration would impact tech. The debate will be hosted by CBS and will be aired across the network’s broadcast and streaming channels, including Paramount Plus, CBSnews.com, and YouTube. Like most other debates, this one will be simulcast, so other major broadcasters and news channels will air it, too. The debate starts at 9PM ET and is expected to run for 90 minutes, with two commercial breaks. Norah O’Donnell, anchor and managing editor of CBS Evening News, and Margaret Brennan, moderator for Face the Nation and chief foreign affairs correspondent for CBS, will moderate the debate. Like this year’s presidential debates, there will not be an audience. The candidates will be introduced starting with Walz because he’s in the incumbent party, but there won’t be opening statements. Vance won a coin toss and chose to go second with his two-minute closing statement. The candidates will get two minutes to answer each question and two minutes to provide responses, with one minute for rebuttals. Moderators can choose to grant an additional minute to continue a topic. The candidates won’t have a heads-up on questions and aren’t allowed to bring prewritten notes. Rather than have the moderators jump in to fact-check in real time, CBS plans to display a QR code on the screen for viewers watching its channel, directing them to a live fact-checking page. One thing that’s different from the presidential debates this year is that neither candidate’s microphone will be muted by default when the other nominee is speaking, but CBS reserves the right to shut the mics down. / Sign up for Verge Deals to get deals on products we’ve tested sent to your inbox weekly. The Verge is a vox media network © 2024 Vox Media, LLC. All Rights Reserved
