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Vice Presidential Debate

  1. early and often
    Trump Is the Only Presidential-Election Loser Who Denied Being a LoserJ.D. Vance claims Democrats, especially Hillary Clinton, have denied defeat as well. But actually, Trump stands alone in refusing to concede.
    By Ed Kilgore
  2. early and often
    Snap Polls Show VP Debate Was As Close As the Presidential RaceWith no clear winner and no big viral moments, the debate will simply confirm a very close presidential contest.
    By Ed Kilgore
  3. vance-walz debate
    J.D. Vance Blasted for Non-Answer on January 6 in VP DebateThe Harris campaign is running with a clip of Vance refusing to admit Trump lost in 2020, turning it into an ad and blasting it on social media.
    By Nia Prater
  4. liveblog
    Who Won the Shockingly Normal VP Debate? Here’s What HappenedA running account of the Walz-Vance debate with commentary and analysis from the entire Intelligencer team.
    By Intelligencer Staff
  5. early and often
    Weirdly Civil VP Debate Won’t Change Many MindsVance and Walz each scored some important points, but what was most striking is that they didn’t go after each other with claw hammers.
    By Ed Kilgore
  6. the national interest
    J.D. Vance May Be Unprincipled, But He Is Smart and SlickFor most of the night, Walz could only barely keep up with him.
    By Jonathan Chait
  7. early and often
    What J.D. Vance and Tim Walz Need to Do in the VP DebateVice-presidential debates are rarely game changers, but in this close race, both candidates will need to tread carefully.
    By Ed Kilgore
  8. what we know
    Vice-Presidential Debate Between Tim Walz and J.D. Vance: All the DetailsThe next and likely final debate before Election Day begins at 9 p.m. Tuesday. Here’s what you should know about it.
    By Chas Danner
  9. the national circus
    Trump Is Flailing and Pence Did Nothing to HelpThe vice-president barely even tried to answer for his boss’s catastrophic COVID failure at Wednesday night’s debate.
    By Frank Rich
  10. vision 2020
    Trump Calls Kamala Harris a ‘Monster’In an appearance on Fox Business, the amped-up president also called for the arrest of his political opponents.
    By Benjamin Hart
  11. vision 2020
    Pence Failed at His One Debate Job: Shifting the Focus From COVID-19After the VP debate, the campaign still revolves around COVID-19 spreading through the White House and Trump’s terrible pandemic response.
    By Ed Kilgore
  12. vice-presidential debate
    Mike Pence Had a Fly on His Head for Almost Two Minutes During the VP DebateIt wasn’t the ideal viral image to emerge from a debate in which Pence was tasked with showing that the White House was in control of its outbreak.
    By Matt Stieb
  13. vice-presidential debate
    Highlights From the 2020 Vice-Presidential DebateIt was a far more orderly affair than last week’s debacle, Harris hammered Pence on the White House pandemic response, and there was a fly.
    By Chas Danner and Matt Stieb
  14. vision 2020
    Vice-Presidential Debate Moderator Hosted Party Honoring Pence ProtégéIn D.C., journalists and the powerful people they cover are often friends. Is that a problem when it comes to moderating a high-stakes debate?
    By Ed Kilgore
  15. The Kaine-Pence Veep Debate Was One of the Lowest-Rated EverOnly Cheney-Lieberman in 2004 and Kemp-Gore in 2000 fared worse.
    By Josef Adalian
  16. Trump’s VP Debate Live-Tweeting Was Overseen by Staffers. It Was Still Weird.While Mike Pence debated, Trump feuded with Megyn Kelly and likened Tim Kaine to a Batman villain.
    By Eric Levitz
  17. master debaters
    Video Recap: The Vice-Presidential Debate in Three MinutesIt was more than just a Joe Biden giggle-fest.
    By Sarah Frank
  18. joetorious
    Biden’s Constant Debate Laughter Was Either Delightful or Totally DisrespectfulDepends on whether you found Ryan’s answers hilarious.
    By Margaret Hartmann and Sarah Frank
  19. master debaters
    Heilemann: Biden Will Get Personal at Debate“If he doesn’t talk about his mother, father, children, grandchildren, and grandparents tonight, I will be shocked.”
    By Sarah Frank
  20. master debaters
    Veep Zingers for Joe Biden and Paul RyanJust imagine if these guys could curse.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  21. veepstakes
    John Heilemann on NOW With Alex Wagner: The Biden-Ryan MatchupBiden won’t hold back as he did against Palin, Heilemann says.
    By Sarah Frank
  22. instant politics
    James Fallows and Katie Roiphe on Sarah Palin Winking Her Way Through the DebateJames Fallows of ‘The Atlantic’ and Katie Roiphe, the author, most recently, of ‘Uncommon Arrangements,’ discuss Sarah Palin’s flirtatiousness last night, and which voters she was really winking at.