Where to Watch the Vice Presidential Debate – NBC Chicago

The vice presidential debate is scheduled to take place on Tuesday and marks the first and possibly only time Tim Walz and JD Vance will face off before the election.

The highly anticipated evening event will be televised and streamed nationally, including on NBC Chicago.

The debate in New York, moderated by CBS News, will give Vance, a freshman Republican senator from Ohio, and Walz, a two-term Democratic governor of Minnesota, a chance to introduce themselves, make the case for their running mate and continue the attack against the opposing ticket.

Here’s what you should know:

What time is the debate tonight?

The 90-minute debate begins Tuesday, October 1 at 8:00 p.m. CST.

It will be moderated by “CBS Evening News” anchor Norah O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan of CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

Where to watch the VP debate: Channel, streaming and more

NBC Chicago will offer a live feed of the debate both in the player above and on television beginning Tuesday at 8 p.m. CT.

NBC News will broadcast the entire debate live and provide extensive prime-time coverage surrounding the event.

Viewers can watch the debate live on their local NBC station or via the NBC 5 Chicago streaming channel, available 24/7 and free on almost every online video platform, including Peacock, YouTube, Samsung TV Plus, and smartphones Smart devices televisions.

Where is the debate?

The vice presidential debate will take place in New York City.

New York was often the site of fundraising events for candidates of both parties and was considered a reliably Democratic state in general elections. But Trump, a New York native, insists he has a chance to make it into the Republican column this year despite losing the state in his two previous presidential bids, and has events in the South Bronx and Long Island held.

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CBS announced Friday that it will be up to the candidates to remain honest with one another during Tuesday’s debate – a sticking point in previous debates this year.

In the June debate between Trump and Biden, CNN’s Jake Tapper and Dana Bash limited follow-up questions and did not fact-check any of the participants.

In the September debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, ABC’s David Muir and Linsey Davis weighed in with factual corrections to some of Trump’s most egregious misrepresentations.

According to moderator CBS, both campaigns agreed to a 90-minute debate with two four-minute commercial breaks. There will be no audience and there will be no opening remarks.

According to CBS, contestants who are not allowed to bring pre-written notes or props on stage will have two minutes to answer a question and two minutes to respond. They are given one minute to rebut.

At the moderators’ discretion, candidates may be given an additional minute to continue the discussion, CBS said.

What you should know about the candidates

Walz, the 60-year-old governor of Minnesota, and Vance, a 40-year-old US senator from Ohio, have been eyeing possible approaches for weeks. Before Harris picked him, Walz was the Democrat who coined “weird” as a derogatory slur for the Republican nominee. Vance criticizes the governor’s progressive record as evidence that Democrats are too far left for voters.

The role of a vice presidential candidate is typically to act as an attack dog for the person at the top of the ticket and to argue on stage against the opposing presidential candidate and his surrogate. Both Vance and Walz have accepted this role.

Vance’s occasionally confrontational news interviews and campaign appearances have underscored why Trump chose him for the Republican nomination, even though he has made biting criticism of the former president in the past, including once suggesting that Trump was “America’s Hitler.”

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Walz, meanwhile, catapulted himself into Harris’ campaign by branding Trump and the Republicans as “just weird,” creating a line of attack for Democrats who wanted to argue that Republicans are out of touch with the American people.

Vance said in a call with reporters last week that he didn’t need to “prepare as much for the debate” because he had “well-developed views on public policy.”

But Vance conducted debate preparation sessions where he was joined by his wife, Usha Vance, Miller, senior Vance advisers and Rep. Tom Emmer, R-Minn., who played Walz, according to a person familiar with his preparations who requested anonymity for strategy discussion. Their mock debates were moderated by Monica Crowley, who served in the Trump administration, hosted a podcast and contributed to Project 2025, a conservative blueprint for redesigning government that Trump supposedly “knows nothing about.”

Walz’s preparation for the debate included meetings at a Minneapolis hotel with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg filling in for Vance, according to a person familiar with the process who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the campaign’s internal dynamics. Others helping with the preparations include Rob Friedlander and Zayn Siddique, who helped Harris prepare for her debate with Trump, as well as other aides from Walz and the campaign.

Possible implications of the debate

Tuesday’s game could have an outsized impact.

Polls have shown Harris and Trump in a tight contest, giving added weight to everything that can sway marginal voters, including the impression made by the vice presidential candidates. It could also be the last debate of the campaign, as Harris and Trump’s teams cannot agree on another meeting.

A new AP-NORC poll found Walz is more popular than Vance, potentially posing an additional challenge for the Republican.

Ahead of the debate, allies of both men lowered expectations that their candidate would deliver a decisive performance.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., called Vance “an accomplished debater” and compared that to Walz, saying he’s “not a lawyer-debater guy.” Klobuchar said Walz spent his time as a child thinking about football, not debating it.

Jason Miller, a senior adviser to Trump, portrayed Walz very differently than Klobuchar.

“Tim Walz is very good at debates, really good. He has been a politician for almost 20 years. He will be very well prepared for tomorrow night,” Miller told reporters on Monday. He predicted that Minnesota’s Democratic governor will be much more “buttoned up” than he was on the campaign trail and ready to defend his record, but added: “That doesn’t mean JD Vance won’t be prepared tomorrow, or that somehow.” he’s not up to the challenge.”

Klobuchar said Walz will show the American people “a real person” who brings “liveliness” and positivity to the debate stage that contrasts with Vance, but “he won’t be afraid to point out the problems.”

“Just because he’s an optimistic, positive person doesn’t mean he’s a pushover,” she said.