It’s a good sign that J.D. Vance knows what he’s getting into. He sent out a pair of campaign emails at the start of the week acknowledging that the debate Tuesday night between himself and Tim Walz is predictably rigged and that it’s destined to be a three-against-one affair.
“The biased moderators will tee up softball questions for Tim,” Vance wrote in one of them Monday. “I’m going to be AMBUSHED by the Fake News Media and hit with bogus ‘fact-checks,’ but don’t worry, I’ve been preparing for weeks.”
If that’s true, then this shouldn’t be a repeat of the most recent debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, in which the former president was uncharacteristically passive as the two Democrat moderators, ABC’s David Muir and Linsey Davis, inserted their opinions (falsely described by the news media as “fact-checks”) and graciously teed up cotton candy questions for Kamala (“Vice President Harris, he says you hate Israel”).
To take on three ogres at once is admittedly easier said than done, but those are the terms of these debates, and Trump and Vance have agreed. It’s not to say the event should be a two-hour pissing match between the outnumbered candidate and the moderators, but less engaged voters who may be finally channeling in to the election by way of these debates deserve to know exactly what’s happening in real time — a sham debate in which the deceitful media continue to aid and abet Kamala’s campaign.
At the presidential debate last
