CBS says it will not fact-check during VP debate

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CBS says it will not fact-check during VP debate
By
Brady Knox
September 30, 2024 9:07 am
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CBS said it would not be fact-checking Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) or Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) during the vice presidential debate.

ABC News took flak over its fact-checking during the presidential debate, fact-checking former President Donald Trump several times, including on dubious grounds, while never fact-checking Vice President Kamala Harris. Following the backlash, as well as a ratings hit to host David Muir, CBS announced it would not be fact-checking the vice presidential candidates.

CBS said it would be up to Vance and Walz to fact-check each other and that “the moderators will facilitate those opportunities” during the time allocated for rebuttals, according to the Associated Press.

However, CBS said CBS News Confirmed, its fact-checking unit, will put out real-time fact-checks on its blog and social media and during the post-debate analysis.

The 90-minute debate will take place in New York City at 9 p.m. It will be moderated by CBS Evening News anchor Norah O’Donnell and Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan. As with the presidential debate, there will be no audience.

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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/3170551/cbs-says-not-fact-check-during-vp-debate/

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What Vance and Walz must do to win pressure-cooker vice presidential debate
By
Naomi Lim
September 30, 2024 7:00 am
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Vice presidential nominees don’t tend to decide elections, but they can tip them for or against the top of the ticket.

That’s the challenge for Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) and Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) when they confront one another on a debate stage Tuesday in New York City.

In what could be the last debate of the 2024 election and with voting already underway in several key states, Walz and Vance will try to do no harm to Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, respectively, with this cycle’s battlegrounds all within polling margins of error and only weeks remaining of their campaigns.

But it is Vance who is contending with higher expectations ahead of the 90-minute debate on CBS amid Harris’s momentum and Trump’s uneven performance against her earlier this month.

“A strong Vance debate performance is probably not going to move the needle, but it will provide momentum to a campaign that has struggled a little bit since the Philadelphia debate,” University of Michigan debate director Aaron Kall told the Washington Examiner.''

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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/presidential/3168859/vance-walz-win-pressure-cooker-vice-presidential-debate/

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“I want the American people to understand that we are in a War right now…this is an intellectual, physical, emotional and definitely a spiritual war…we are facing a dark group of people. They’re Marxists that have no soul…”

Michael Thomas Flynn, Lieutenant general, United States Army, Retired.

The General is EXACTLY right!