Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has agreed to an Oct. 1 vice presidential debate with CBS News against Ohio Senator JD Vance, who has yet to confirm his participation.
Walz confirmed in a post to X, just over a week after joining Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign and headlining massive rallies in a number of swing states.
The vice presidential nominee joined the race to fanfare from Democrats, who say he’s brought more enthusiasm to the ticket and has maintained an edge over Vance in favorability polling, the latter candidate posting near-historic unlikeability numbers.
Vance, who dodged the question of whether he’d commit to the date earlier on Wednesday, previously said he’d debate presidential nominee Harris after she’d become her party’s presumptive nominee.
Walz gained national notoriety during the search for Harris’ running mate for coining a now-widespread line of attack on Vance and the Trump ticket, that they are “weird,” and has since continued making the case that Vance and Trump are fixated on the wrong issues.