A senior adviser to the 2024 Harris campaign said Tim Walz is “looking forward” to debating JD Vance on Tuesday CBS News Vice Presidential Debate This could be the first and last meeting between the two before the November elections in New York City.
Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum asked former White House spokesman Ian Sams for oversight and scrutiny on “The Story” on Monday. A report from CNN This means Harris’s running mate is nervous going into the debate.
CNN spoke to Walz’s close aides and top campaign staffers, who said the Minnesota governor is worried about letting Harris down and reportedly said in her running mate interview that she was a poor debater.
Republican Vice Presidential nominee J.D. Vance and Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Tim Walz (Getty Images)
“I think voters will get a chance to see two incumbents who are advocating for two very different visions for the country,” Sams said.
“Just today, for example, we have a new report from Donald Trump’s campaign famously in the first debate, saying that they have a ‘concept plan’ on health care. Well, right after that, J.D. Vance, his running mate, came out and explained what that plan meant – that we’re going to reopen what’s called the high-risk pool, that’s for people with pre-existing conditions.
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McCallum interrupted the senior adviser and returned to his question about Walz’s alleged nervousness and how he was feeling before the debate.
CBS News signage before the first vice presidential debate at the CBS Broadcast Center on Monday, September 30, 2024 in New York, US. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“he is looking forward to the debate,” Sams said of Walz. “I think he’s looking forward to debating J.D. Vance, who, again, is advocating returning to high-risk pools that allow people with pre-existing conditions. “Will put them back into these high-risk pools, which is going to cost them more money and their insurance could go away.”
Vance gave one Interview in mid-September On NBC’s “Meet the Press” he attempted to place greater emphasis on the “concepts” of former President Trump’s health care plan that would be an alternative to the Affordable Care Act.
LEESPORT, PENNSYLVANIA – SEPTEMBER 21: Republican vice presidential nominee, U.S. Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) speaks to the crowd during a rally at the Berks County Fairgrounds on September 21, 2024 in Leesport, Pennsylvania. Through the rally Vance spoke about illegal immigration and repeated claims he made regarding Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio. (Matthew Hatcher/Getty Images)
“You want to make sure that pre-existing coverage – conditions – are covered, you want to make sure that people have access to the doctors they need, and you also want to implement some regulation agenda So people can choose a health care plan that “fits them,” Vance said.
“We want to make sure everyone is covered. But the best way to do that is to actually promote some more options in our health care system and not have a one-size-fits-all approach that a lot of people into the same insurance pool, into the same risk pool, which really makes it harder for people to make the right choices for their families.”
The Harris-Walz campaign issued a 43 page report Attacking the health care plan of their Republican opponents and highlighting four key concepts that the Trump-Vance campaign says they want to eliminate.
A protester holds a sign in support of the Affordable Care Act outside the U.S. Supreme Court as it hears oral arguments challenging the Affordable Care Act in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020. (Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)
Sams said that ultimately he believes the November election will be “really close” and that voters will be the finalists deciding which issues are most important to them because they go to the ballot box,
“I think when we look at the fact that we only have 36 or so days left until the elections, you know, the candidates have to go out there to earn the support of the people. And it’s 50-50. “It’s a race,” he told McCallum.
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“And so when you think about a state like Michigan or you think about Wisconsin or Pennsylvania, where President Trump was in Erie this weekend for his rally, you know, voters want to hear, What are you going to do for me?”
