JD Vance and Trump benefited more than Tim Walz and Harris from the Vice-Presidential debate

This is a quick reference to the debate between the Vice President hopefuls, the running mates of Donald Trump and Kamala Harris respectively: JD Vance and Tim Walz. There was a lot of talk before the debate about it being important and the person who won would significantly advance the campaign of their residential hopeful.

Vance and Walz. Image in the public domain (as assessed).

On all accounts, the debate was a score draw with both performing politely and sensibly with decent arguments. I didn't see it myself I must add. However, I would argue that JD Vance benefited quite a lot more than Tim Walz from the debate because before the debate JD Vance's public profile and image among the voting public was that he was a misogynistic AH! Not quite that bad but he came across as not a good man when talking about the Haitian immigrant rumourmongering story about eating pets. He came across as misogynistic because he criticised childless pet-owning women.

"Vance seizes Mr Nice Guy crown from Midwest Dad" - The Times. They agree with me! 👍😉

And before the debate Tim Walz came across as a very sensible, former teacher, former military man with good arguments and a sense of humour. And so JD Vance advanced his public profile while Tim Walz simply cemented his public profile. He didn't advance it. On this basis, on this measurement, the Trump campaign gained an advantage from this debate I would argue albeit slight.

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