Fact-checking the VP debate between Vance and Walz
Vice presidential hopefuls JD Vance and Tim Walz faced off in their first and only debate Tuesday night. Here's a fact check of what they got right and wrong.
Vice presidential candidates JD Vance and Tim Walz faced off in their first and only debate Tuesday night, squaring off over everything from foreign policy and the economy to the 2020 election and abortion rights.
The debate was remarkably courteous — especially compared with this year's presidential debates — but both candidates ran afoul of the facts at times.
Here's what the VP nominees got wrong and right and everything in between.
Pressed about claims that he was in China during the Tiananmen Square massacre, despite contemporaneous news reports that placed him in Nebraska at the time, Walz downplayed his past comments.
“All I said on this is that I got there that summer and misspoke on this. I will just — that’s what I said, so I was in Hong Kong and China during the democracy protests," Walz said.
Rating: 5