Opinion: The Real Losers of the Walz-Vance Debate: Every Voter Watching It

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There is no question that the big loser at Tuesday night’s CBS vice presidential debate was the audience.

It is not just that the debate was boring, although it was often stultifying. It’s that the debate itself obscured more about the core issues in campaign 2024 than it revealed.

After watching this debate for almost two hours, a viewer would never have known that Donald Trump was a convicted felon, that he was judged liable for rape, or that he has been charged with stealing national secrets. You would not have a clue that he has said he would suspend the Constitution on his first day in office, that he and his running mate J.D. Vance were, in fact, racists and misogynists, that Trump’s signature policy proposal, a round-up of 10-20 million “migrants,” would likely tear the country apart and lead to the creation of concentration camps. You wouldn’t know that Trump has said he would throw his rivals in prison.

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