Tim Walz Shellacked Vance!!

It wasn't even a contest!

My VP debate take away?

I will give credit where credit is due. Vance appeared slick, poised, and dare I say, held himself like a leader would. Still, the snake oil he was willing to ingest and sell to others was on full display.

Walz cornered him on the bi-partisan immigration bill that Trump tanked, and smacked him with the question about whether it was fair for teachers and truckers to pay taxes when Trump does not. However, the defining moment was when Vance refused to answer the question on whether or not Trump won the 2020 election.

If you were watching this debate through the eyes of a persuadable moderate voter, the first thirty minutes were probably a tie. Vance did a pretty steady job of passing off his absurd lies as if they were true, and pretending he’s a moderate instead of an extremist. But then just as Walz was starting to get a little bit of an upper hand, and the moderators lightly fact checked Vance on his umpteenth lie, Vance stepped in it by getting into an angry confrontation with the moderators. Vance even went so far as to specifically whine that “you guys weren’t going to fact check.” Vance lost his composure and never did get it back.

From there, Vance seemed to be on the defensive for the rest of the night. Walz didn’t have a perfect debate – no one expected him to, as he’s a natural conversationalist not a debater. But from the thirty minute mark onward, Walz started to clearly win. By the time Walz gave a compelling answer on abortion that Vance couldn’t counter, the debate was essentially over.

I disagree a bit with Palmer in that I think Walz did more than okay here—he slapped.

By end of it, Vance looked like an empty suit and Walz like the solid, down to earth yet capable , everyman politician that he is.

I will likely write a bit more on this as the polls hash out in the of following days but yeah—Walz won this. Tell me you guys impression below.