What’s this? A Tuesday Each day Present replace? There should have been one thing of modest significance tonight. There was, expensive reader. Very modest. This night, the Vice Presidential debate between Governor Tim Walz and Senator JD Vance befell on a fact-checkless CBS, permitting Vance the chance to show he doesn’t know what a vp does and Walz the possibility to agree with Vance at any time when potential. The Each day Present was stay to make sense of an occasion greatest described as “boring as shit.”
Taking his place on the desk, host Michael Kosta (isn’t it enjoyable checking in with completely different hosts) did his greatest to seek out angles into this story. Kosta’s laid-back, dude-bro type was the proper salve for an election occasion that in all probability doesn’t matter, gained’t sway voters, and doesn’t even must occur. However since we’re legally obligated to listen to Vance downplay January 6, right here we go.
Whereas the present was stay, The Each day Present wasn’t solely trying on the debate. The episode opened by checking in with the protestors exterior the occasion, the place a conflict between “we’re not going again” and “suck my dick” raged within the streets however wasn’t mirrored contained in the CBS Broadcast Heart in New York Metropolis. “It was shocking seeing these two candidates being civil with one another regardless that they did disagree,” Kosta stated. “It was shocking and, personally, boring as shit.”
The left-leaning Each day Present didn’t let Walz off simple. Kosta examined how Tim Walz believed himself to be a awful debater, and Walz bought his likelihood to show it. Specializing in Walz’s response as to if he went to China within the spring or summer season of 1989, which is one way or the other an argument, Kosta may see the awful debater Walz allegedly warned Kamala Harris about. Fortunately, Walz has attraction, and as Kosta famous, the Governor has stolen a lot of the Republican moveset, similar to being folksy and harnessing a working data of the Bible. “What’s subsequent?” Kosta stated. “He’s going to seek out out he’s the webmaster of NudeAfrica.com.”
Having spent the final 5 years on the podcast circuit, Vance was comfy dehumanizing immigrants however much less comfy answering the query of whether or not he’ll separate kids from their mother and father on the border. He additionally couldn’t reply a easy query like “Who gained the 2020 election?” Nonetheless, with out Trump’s flop sweat, Vance slickly weaved round questions on January 6, abortion, immigration, and the time he referred to as Trump “Hilter.” Usually, he’d marvel why Kamala Harris hasn’t already mounted this factor or that, indicating that he doesn’t have a agency grasp on the place he’s presently interviewing for.
“To his credit score, Vance did an incredible job within the debate,” Kosta stated. “He was clean. He was assured. He was ready. The one downside was his reminiscence.” When Vance boldly declared the Trump administration introduced peace all through the world, Kosta famous that there wasn’t even peace on this nation.
Finally, this debate hit otherwise as a result of it was so cordial. There have been no conspiratorial outbursts, arguments about golf handicaps, or bizarre stalking of the Democratic nominee. Positive, there was that second when the moderators gleefully shut off the candidate’s mics, however that’s solely as a result of CBS foolishly opted to not fact-check this one stay. That is our third presidential election cycle with Donald Trump on the middle, and as Kosta famous, it’s the primary time we’ve seen just a little midwestern niceness among the many candidates. The phrase of the evening was “agree,” which is bizarre. However the Michigan-born Kosta is aware of what “midwestern good” truly means.
“The factor I took away from this debate was that each of those males made the Midwest proud,” Kosta stated. “This debate was an oasis of Midwestern good and identical to Midwestern good it was a masks protecting deep-seated hatred and resentment.”
