The early returns are in, there’s wide agreement Vance won last night’s debate with Walz. The two didn’t do a lot of personal attacks - someone called it “Midwest Nice” - and the debate was deemed policy-heavy.
It turned out about as expected from their lives to date: a lifelong successful enlisted man vs. clear officer material. Vance has upside potential, Walz doesn’t.
Vance is president material, Walz is another Joe Biden, as MN governor he has already reached what Prof. Peter called his level of incompetence. Trump picked someone smarter than he is, Harris picked someone who won’t threaten to outshine her.
I would like to predict four more years of Trump followed by eight of President Vance, but our electorate is too fickle for that to be likely. Be happy with last night’s win, and keep fingers crossed going forward.
