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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Margaret Sullivan

JD Vance’s slick performance can’t hide the danger of another Trump presidency

People at a watch party watching the vice-presidential debate.
‘Many Americans, no doubt, had tuned out and gone to bed by the time Vance started spreading revisionist history about Trump’s role in the January 6 riot and his desire to overturn the 2020 election.’ Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

Tim Walz has said he’s an unskilled debater, and he didn’t disprove that on Tuesday night in the first and only 2024 vice-presidential debate.

Kamala Harris’s running mate came out looking nervous, slightly deer-in-the-headlights, and far less glossy than his rival, the Ohio senator JD Vance.

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