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Rachel Leingang in Minneapolis

What we know so far about JD Vance and Tim Walz’s debate styles

Side-by-side close-up portraits of JD Vance and Tim Walz speaking
JD Vance speaks in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 6 August, and Tim Walz speaks in Las Vegas, Nevada, on 10 August. Photograph: Ryan Collerdronda Churchill/AFP/Getty Images

When Tim Walz and JD Vance square off as vice-presidential picks on Tuesday, it will be the biggest debate stage for both of the politicians who are newly becoming household names.

Walz, the Democratic governor of Minnesota, and Vance, a Republican senator from Ohio, have been honing their public speaking skills – and their pointed barbs at each other – in TV appearances and at events around the country in the past few months.

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