US Elections. Tim Walz and JD Vance. Fierce Duel of Vice Presidential Candidates

Tim Walz i J.D Vance Before their nomination, they were not widely known politicians and this is the main similarity between them.

Walz has a wealth of experience in politics. Vance has been in the Senate for only a year and a half. Vance is a conservativefor some extreme. Walz proudly calls himself a liberal, and does not even fight the term socialist. He once stated that in one person it will be called socialism, and in another benevolence.

Walz supports in vitro. He says that he and his wife had been trying for eight years without success to have a child, and that they eventually turned to in vitro fertilization, which gave birth to their two children. In June, Vance did not support a bill during a Senate vote that would have guaranteed the availability of this method in America.

The vice presidential candidates also differ in their wealth. Walz, a former high school teacher, congressman, and current governor of Minnesota, does not have large savings, does not invest in the stock market or real estate. Experts estimate the Democratic vice presidential candidate's wealth at a maximum of $300,000.

JD Vance before he entered politics, he worked in big business. He has shares in over 100 companies, invests in real estate, cryptocurrencies. His wealth is counted in millions of dollars.

There are many sayings about first impressions: first impressions are last impressions or – you don't get a second chance to make a good first impression. The message in these statements is clear – whether someone likes it or not, people tend to judge quickly and have a hard time changing their minds.

First impressions in politics, especially during a campaign, are extremely important. They can determine whether a politician attracts or alienates voters. In the fight for the hearts of Americans, so far, JD Vance fails. In a study for The Washington Post and ABC News 32 percent of respondents declared their sympathy for Vance42 percent indicated no. Which ultimately gives the Republican vice-presidential candidate a negative result – minus 10 points. This is historically bad result. America has never had such an unpopular vice presidential candidate in the 21st century.

The same study JD Vance wishes he had never seen is what the Democratic vice presidential candidate looks on with satisfaction. Tim Walz he has a positive result in it – plus 9 points. 39% of respondents expressed sympathy for him, and 30% disliked him.

Tim Walz has already earned the nickname “America's Dad“. There is no shortage of comments on the web that Walz is “a homely guy from the neighborhood“who understands the problems of ordinary people. JD Vance has been given this term – weird.

They do not gain Vance any sympathy or popularity. statements from the pastwhich are now being pulled out of him. First it was about childless women with cats whose “life is sad and pathetic”. Then the media recalled his comment on divorce. Vance explained that these should not occur even in families where there is violence, because it is not beneficial for the children. Vance also supported the idea that the authorities of states where abortion is banned could control pregnant women in terms of whether or not they want to travel to another state to have the procedure done there.

Vance recently had to explain himself in a 2020 podcast interview in which the host stated that the purpose of postmenopausal women is taking care of grandchildren. Vance agreed. Now his spokesman explains that the politician does not agree with this view at all and that the situation from the interview is being misinterpreted. The spokesman's voice is lost in the chorus criticizing Vance for another belittling the role of women in society.

Hillary Clinton commenting on these statements on the X platform, she wrote: “Are the Republican candidates (Trump and Vance) even aware that women can vote too.”

When six years ago Tim Walz debated on restricting access to weapons, in a video recording he said: “We can ensure that weapons used in war, which I also carried in war, are only present in war.”

Walz served in the National Guard for more than twenty years, joining when he was seventeen. He rose to the rank of sergeant major. He also served in Europe when his unit was sent to Italy. But Tim Walz did not take part in the fightshe was not in the war, so he could not carry a gun during it. Tim Walz made himself out to be something he was not. And he was pointed out for it by the Republicans, led by JD Vance, who served in the Marines, he was in Iraq, but he emphasizes that he did not take part in the fight because he was in the press service.

Walz's words about bearing arms in war were called by Vance “stolen heroism“.

A spokesman for the Harris-Walz campaign admitted that Tim Walz's statement on the matter was imprecise and misleading.

There are also accusations of cowardice. Tim Walz left the National Guard in May 2005. His unit learned two months later that he would be sent to Iraqwhich happened in October. Walz explains that if the order to leave had come while he was still serving, he would have gone, that he left National Guard with the consent of his superiors and that he did it because he wanted to focus on fighting for a seat in Congress (Walz won the election and was a congressman for over a decade), but according to critics he escaped before going to Iraqbecause he simply chickened out.

“It's shameful to prepare your unit for action in Iraq, make a promise to be there with them, and then withdraw just before the order to leave came,” he said about the case. JD Vance.

Walz claims that he will never apologize for serving his countrythat he is proud of her and that he is grateful to everyone who has served as he has, and that he is also grateful to his competitor, J.D. Vance, for his time in uniform.

Both politicians will certainly not avoid questions about strange statements, lies and the past when they meet on October 1. debate in a television studio.

For Interia Magda Sakowska, Polsat News, Washington.

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