US Presidential Election: VP debate serves less drama but intensifies debate on illegal immigration

Last updated on October 4th, 2024 at 02:42 pm

The VP debate got heated as the candidates Tim Walz and JD Vance took to face off each other in the clash of words on Tuesday evening. The two were quietly seated but the flame burned a notch higher when topics of abortion, school shootings and immigration came up on the discussion list. There were quite noticeable differences between the two party representatives regarding these issues. 

Unlike the Presidential candidates debate, where Donald Trump and Kamala Harris tore apart each other by attacking each other, on Tuesday Walz and Vance largely were seen composed and avoided the attacks on each other. They instead concentrated their fire on the running mates. It was more a policy driven discussion between the two.

In a key exchange over abortion laws Walz stated, “Trump brags about how great he is but he is not what he seems like.” Tim Walz went on to add the case of Amanda Zurawski who was denied an abortion in Texas despite serious health complications during pregnancy. She was a minor who was raped by her stepfather and became pregnant. 

The Trump administration if it comes to power will go on to implement Project 2025 that is going to have a registry of the number of pregnancies and will also determine whether women have access to abortion. 

Walz also criticised Trump and Vance for demonising immigrants in Springfield, Ohio where some people said that Haitian migrants are eating people’s pets but that turned out to be a hoax. These rumours led to bomb threats and children being escorted to school by the police.

Asked about immigration, Tim Walz talked about Kamala Harris’s history in California, demonstrating the fact that the real thing to do was to talk about their bosses’ records rather than their own.

“Kamala Harris was the attorney general and prosecuted transnational gangs for human trafficking and drug interventions.”, Walz stated. In reply Vance blamed Harris for the number of people who crossed the border under the Bilden administration, which prompted Walz to raise the issue of a bipartisan border bill, endorsed by the National Border Patrol Council that was torpedoed by Trump earlier this year during the election campaign. Donald Trump has vowed to bring in mass deportation orders for people born in the US and are citizens of the country but have been born to non-citizen parents outside the USA. Although he has stated this would take place, he has failed to explain how this would work.