There are two key pivotal moments in a running mate's time on the campaign: one is the convention speech and one is their debate performance, said former Tim Kaine campaign chief of staff Matt Paul. While vice presidential debates generally aren't thought to swing election results, Paul said that this year's might be different since Harris and Donald Trump may only have one debate themselves. It seems this year, without a full presidential debate schedule and where this is falling in the race, it has somewhat raised the stakes of this debate.
Four years ago, Harris tried to dampen expectations ahead of her debate with Pence, and Walz is doing the same this week. Look, he's a Yale Law guy, Walz said, referring to Vance. I'm a public school teacher. So we know where he's at on that.
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