After last night's vice presidential debate concluded, the clear winner was Trump's VP pick JD Vance who wiped the floor with Kamala Harris' VP pick Tim Walz.  CNN anchor Abby Phillip described Walz's performance lacking "preparation" as Vance to continued to land blow after blow. CBS News hosted the vice presidential debate last night and according to Phillip, Vance "landed a lot of punches" on his opponent who she described as unprepared and could not articulate counter punches. WATCH: 
“I think we shouldn’t lose track … of the fact that J.D. Vance came to this debate to land a bunch of punches and he did. He landed a lot of punches in between all the niceties and all of that. And the thing that really stood out to me was that Tim Walz did not seem prepared for it,” she said. “He didn’t respond to a lot of the criticisms and attacks that Vance put on the table. He allowed some clear falsehoods to just go completely unanswered. ” “He allowed J.D. Vance essentially to dodge on a whole host of issues, on climate change, on the issue of his flip-flopping on Donald Trump. He allowed Vance, initially, to claim that Trump salvaged the Affordable Care Act,” Phillip said. “It took him several sentences to get to the part of … Walz’s answer, where he actually responded to that. I mean, I think there was a clear lack of preparation and execution here.” CNN anchor Dana Bash suggested the opposite where Walz "had too much preparation" because "he had so many lines that he was clearly trying to say that he didn’t listen.”
Bash did admit that she thought the Walz tactic of avoiding tough interviews weakened his chances of doing well in the debate because "he needed more reps." According to Axios, Vance did the opposite and embraced the media by giving seven times more interviews than the Harris-Walz ticket combined. During the debate, Governor Walz made significant and multiple blunders, especially when he faced questioning regarding a CNN report where he falsely claimed to be in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square massacre. Another major blunder which has gone viral on social media was when he claimed he was "friends with school shooters" while debating gun control.