Tonight is the only debate between the vice presidential candidates: the Democratic governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, and the Republican senator of Ohio, JD Vance.
The two men will face off at the CBS Broadcast Center in New York.
The debate will be moderated by CBS Evening News anchor Norah O’Donnell and Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan.
The conversation could get colorful since it was Vance who first claimed that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating residents’ pets.
Former President Donald Trump produced the most viral moment during last month’s debate in Philadelphia against Democratic candidate Vice President Kamala Harris when he brought up the Springfield mascot conspiracy theory.
“They’re eating the dogs, the people that came in. They’re eating the cats,” Trump said. “They are eating the pets.”
Local officials have rejected Trump and Vance’s claims since the September 10 debate in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
And despite Democratic criticism of Trump spreading falsehoods, party members have kept alive a false rumor that Vance included a passage in his best-selling book, Hillbilly Elegy, where he makes love to a couch.
There is also a rumor spread on the left that Vance wears eyeliner.
Vance is likely to go after Walz over his military record (hence the inclusion of the term “stolen valor”) and his handling of the Black Lives Matter protests that hit Minneapolis during the summer of 2020, during Walz’s tenure as governor.
Walz is likely to draw attention to Vance’s comments about Democrats as “the childless cat lady.”
The Minnesota governor caught the attention of Harris’ team after calling Trump and Vance “weird” when defending Democratic candidates, a dig that helped him get elected to the 2024 ticket.
And in a repeat of the vice presidential debate from four years ago, BINGO will be won immediately if a fly lands on a candidate’s head.
In 2020, a fly landed on Vice President Mike Pence while he was participating in a debate against Harris in Salt Lake City, Utah.