Abby Phillip: Vance ‘Landed a Lot of Punches,’ ‘Clear Lack of Preparation’ on Walz’s Part

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PHILLIP: "I think we shouldn't lose track, I think even in the civility, of the fact that J.D. Vance came to this debate to land a bunch of punches, and he did. He landed a lot of punches in between all the niceties and all of that. And the thing that really stood out to me was that Tim Walz did not seem prepared for it. He didn‘t respond to a lot of the criticisms and attacks that Vance put on the table. He allowed some clear falsehoods to just go completely unanswered. He allowed J.D. Vance essentially to dodge on a whole host of issues, on climate change, on the issue of his flip-flopping on Donald Trump. He allowed Vance initially to claim that Trump salvaged the Affordable Care Act. It took him several sentences to get to the part of his answer, Walz‘s answer, where he where he actually responded to that. I mean, I think there was a clear lack of preparation and execution here on Walz's part.”