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Will Saletan / The Bulwark:
The One Question That Mattered in the VP Debate  —  IN TUESDAY NIGHT'S VICE-PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE, JD Vance and Tim Walz covered lots of issues: inflation, housing, guns, abortion, immigration, health care, and much more.  —  But there was only one question on which the vice presidency …
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Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
JD Vance Was So Good, It May Drive Trump Crazy  —  A few thoughts on Tuesday's VP debate.  —  Tim Walz was . . . fine.  His performance rated somewhere between lovable lunkhead and compelling nice guy.  Your mileage may vary.  He had one or two very bad moments (Eye-Ran; his China trip) …
Vox:
3 winners and 2 losers from the Walz-Vance debate  —  The vice presidential debate between Tim Walz and JD Vance on Tuesday was something of a stalemate, though it did feature several striking moments and offered an interesting preview into what presidential politics might look like once Donald Trump is off the stage.
Brad Reed / Raw Story:
J.D. Vance's ‘brazen lying’ leaves veteran health care reporter stunned  —  Veteran health care reporter Jonathan Cohn found himself stunned this week by what he described as Sen. J.D. Vance's (R-OH) “brazen lying” about former President Donald Trump's efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
Discussion: HuffPost, CNN, The Status Kuo, IJR and Fox News
Stefan Becket / CBS News:
Read the full VP debate transcript from the Walz-Vance showdown  —  The first and only vice presidential debate between Ohio Sen. JD Vance and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz took place in New York on Tuesday, a largely collegial affair that touched on many pressing issues facing the country.
David Frum / The Atlantic:
J. D. Vance Reinvents Himself Again
Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
The only moment from the VP debate that mattered
Jamison Foser / Finding Gravity:
None of us should even know who JD Vance is
Discussion: Eschaton
Tessa Stuart / Rolling Stone:
J.D. Vance Tries Desperately to Rewrite His Abortion Stance During Debate
CBS News:
CBS News VP debate poll shows voter reactions to Vance-Walz showdown  —  In the first — and likely only — vice-presidential debate between Tim Walz and JD Vance, voters who watched Tuesday night said it was an almost even match, and an overwhelming majority felt the tone of the debate was positive.
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Melanie Mason / Politico:
Dead even: POLITICO snap poll shows stark division on debate  —  The results reflect the country's hyper-polarized politics.  —  Talk about a divided nation: There was no decisive winner in the first-and-only vice presidential debate of the 2024 election.  —  Asked who won Tuesday's debate …
CNN:
CNN Instant Poll: No clear winner in VP debate between Tim Walz and JD Vance  —  Registered voters who watched Tuesday's debate between vice presidential nominees Tim Walz and JD Vance were closely divided over which candidate did the better job, according to a CNN instant poll …
Oliver Darcy / Status:
The Tiffany Network's Truths  —  By clearly stating the facts on key issues, CBS News moderators Norah O'Donnell and Margaret Brennan ensured that reality was not warped. … CBS News did not sit idly on the sidelines. … By clearly — and authoritatively — stating the facts on issues …
Helen Lewis / The Atlantic:
Did Donald Trump Notice J. D. Vance's Strangest Answer?
Politico:
The big VP debate takeaway: Neither candidate delivered the goods
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
At debate, Vance whines: You weren't supposed to fact-check me!
Laura Doan / CBS News:
Fact checking VP debate claims from Walz and Vance's 2024 showdown
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
CBS cuts mics of Vance, Walz during immigration argument
Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Vance claims Trump ‘salvaged’ Obamacare. Trump tried, and failed, to kill it.
Washington Post:
Trump mixes up words, swerves among subjects in off-topic speech  —  The Republican nominee appeared tired and complained about his heightened campaign schedule.  —  MILWAUKEE — Republican nominee Donald Trump spoke for 33 minutes before his first mention of the ostensible focus of his remarks.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Aaron Rupar / Public Notice:
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Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
How unhinged must Trump get to even matter?  —  The irony is now painful.  For many years now, the artsy mountain resort city of Asheville, N.C. has been marketed to a growing retiree population as a “climate refuge,” a temperate inland fortress far from the potential killer hurricanes …
Robert Sherman / The Hill:
What Iran's missile attack on Israel felt like  —  HAIFA, Israel — I knew right from the get-go this attack from Iran was going to be different than anything we had seen.  —  Over the past year, I've personally witnessed countless rocket attacks on cities like Tel Aviv, Ashkelon and Sderot coming from Gaza.
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Cybele Mayes-Osterman / USA Today:
‘Iran made a big mistake’: Israel promises revenge after missile attack
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
Internal Emails Reveal How Hate Overwhelmed Springfield After Trump's Lies About Haitian Immigrants  —  A cache of internal emails obtained by 404 Media using a public records request show the chaos caused by the unfounded racist conspiracy theory that Haitian immigrants are “eating the pets” of residents in Springfield, Ohio.
Discussion: Raw Story and Forbes
Cook Political Report:
Swing State Polling Finds Deadlocked Presidential Contest, ‘Blue Wall’ Senate Races Tighten  —  A new Cook Political Report Swing State Project Survey conducted by BSG and GS Strategy Group (September 19-25; 2,941 voters), shows Vice President Kamala Harris leading or tied with former President Donald Trump …
Josh Boswell / Daily Mail:
Kamala Harris's husband Doug Emhoff ‘forcefully slapped ex-girlfriend for flirting with another man’ in booze-fueled assault after date to star-studded gala  —  Vice President Kamala Harris's husband assaulted his ex-girlfriend, three friends have told Dailymail.com.
Ava Kofman / ProPublica:
A Pair of Billionaire Preachers Built the Most Powerful Political Machine in Texas.  That's Just the Start.  —  Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks are poised to take their Christian nationalist agenda nationwide.  —  Co-published with The New York Times Magazine … Reporting Highlights
Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Trump's ageing is as real as Biden's  —  The former president's verbal decline and random meanderings are shrugged off as just more of the same  —  A boy has a crush on a girl and tells everyone how great she is.  The girl does not feel the same way and picks another suitor.
Discussion: Townhall and Breitbart
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
Trump backs out of ‘60 Minutes’ primetime interview, CBS says
Paul Specht / WRAL-TV:
Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson criticized for skipping vote on Helene emergency declaration  —  As a deadly storm system approached the southeastern U.S. last week, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper's office asked top state officials to support his call for emergency help.
Discussion: The Guardian, NC Newsline and Raw Story
CBS News:
How the U.S. is responding to Iran's missile attack against Israel  —  The U.S. has called Tuesday's Iranian missile attack against Israel a significant escalation with the threat of wider war in the Middle East now seemingly at a tipping point.  CBS News reporter Olivia Gazis …
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