USA. Vice presidential candidates Tim Walz and JD Vance clashed in the debate

– That's it Israel “It's up to him to decide what he thinks needs to be done to keep his country safe, and we should support our allies wherever they are as they fight the bad guys,” said Republican Senator J.D. Vance, running with Donald Trump, in response to the first question of the debate on is whether USA should support a possible Israeli attack on Iran.

Answering the same question, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz recalled Tuesday's words of Vice President Harris, who announced that the US “will protect our forces and allied forces” and Iran will bear the consequences of its attack on Israel.

Walz also accused Trump of contributing to the termination of the nuclear agreement with Iran, which limited its nuclear program. Vance, in turn, accused the Biden administration of using the funds it unfreezed (including for the purchase of food) for Iran to produce weapons that it used to attack Israel.

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Commenting on immigration, Walz mentioned Donald Trump's torpedoed bipartisan bill tightening border restrictions and spreading false theories about immigrants eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.

– We had the fairest and strictest immigration bill this country has ever seen. But this is how it ends when you don't want to solve the problem, you just want to demonize immigrants. And Senator Vance says he wants to “make stories” to draw attention to the problem, Walz said.

“It denigrates a large number of people who are here legally in the Springfield community. Ohio's Republican governor said that wasn't true. Don't do this. This has its consequences, he noted.

Vance, meanwhile, accused Kamala Harris of deliberately pursuing an “open borders” policy and allowing the free flow of drugs, recalling his mother's problems with opioid addiction. – Immigration is leading to huge problems in the United States: parents who cannot afford health care, overburdened schools. This must end, he stressed.

– Soon you will meet their “Project 2025”: we will have a pregnancy register. It will limit, if not prevent, access to contraception and limit, if not eliminate, access to infertility treatment. “For many of you listening, including me, infertility treatment is the reason I'm having a child,” Walz said.

Vance denied his party had such plans, although he admitted his views on abortion were not shared by much of the country, as evidenced by the 2023 referendum in his state of Ohio, where voters voted to protect abortion rights.

“And I think what I've learned from this is that we have to do a better job of winning back people's trust,” Vance said. He also noted that he and Trump support maintaining the current regulations on abortion that vary from state to state.

Walz, in turn, recalled the story of a young woman, Amber Thurman, who was unable to have an abortion in her home state – Georgia – and died while traveling to North Carolina, where she was planning the procedure. He added that if Trump's elected judges had not struck down the nationwide abortion law, the woman might still be alive.

– Kamala Harris engaged in censorship on an industrial scale. She did it during covid. “She was doing this over a lot of other issues, and that, in my opinion, is a much greater threat to democracy than what Donald Trump said when he said protesters should peacefully protest on January 6,” Vance said, referring to Trump's behavior during storming the Capitol. He accused the current administration of wanting to censor social media users for spreading disinformation.

Vance said that talking about a threat to democracy from Trump is “ridiculous” because he finally gave up power in 2021. Walz, in turn, accused Vance of practicing “historical revisionism” and noted that Trump is already preparing the ground for once again contest the election results.

The Republican senator promised that if Walz and Kamala Harris win the election, he will recognize the result and pray for them.