Harris 2024 campaign senior adviser previews upcoming vice presidential debate

A senior adviser to the 2024 Harris marketing campaign mentioned Tim Walz is “wanting ahead” to debating JD Vance Tuesday on the CBS Information Vice Presidential Debate in New York Metropolis in what might be the primary and final assembly between the 2 earlier than the November election. 

Fox Information anchor Martha MacCallum requested Ian Sams, the previous White Home spokesperson for oversight and investigations, Monday on “The Story” about a CNN report that claims Harris’ working mate is nervous heading into the talk. 

CNN spoke with aides near Walz and high marketing campaign staffers who mentioned the Minnesota governor is fearful about letting Harris down and reportedly mentioned in his working mate interview that he was a foul debater.

Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance and Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz (Getty Photographs )

“I feel voters are going to get an opportunity to see two working mates who’re advocating for 2 very totally different visions for the nation,” mentioned Sams.

“Simply right this moment, for instance, we’ve got a brand new report out from the marketing campaign on famously, Donald Trump within the first debate, saying he has a ‘idea of a plan’ on well being care. Properly, proper after that, JD Vance, his working mate, got here out and defined what that plan meant by pushing – that we will reopen what are referred to as high-risk swimming pools. That is for individuals with preexisting circumstances.”

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MacCallum interrupted the senior adviser, returning to her query about Walz’s reported nerves and the way he’s feeling forward of the talk. 

CBS Information signage forward of the primary vice presidential debate on the CBS Broadcast Heart in New York, US, on Monday, Sept. 30, 2024. (Al Drago/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photographs)

“He is wanting ahead to the talk,” Sams mentioned of Walz. “I feel he is wanting ahead to debating JD Vance, who, once more, is constant to advocate for returning to high-risk swimming pools that’ll put individuals with preexisting circumstances again into these high-risk swimming pools that value them extra money and will kick them off of their insurance coverage.”

Vance gave an interview in mid-September to NBC’s “Meet the Press” during which he tried to place extra meat on the bones of former President Trump’s “ideas” of a well being care plan that may be an alternative choice to the Reasonably priced Care Act. 

LEESPORT, PENNSYLVANIA – SEPTEMBER 21: Republican vice presidential nominee, U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) speaks to a crowd throughout a rally on the Berks County Fairgrounds on September 21, 2024 in Leesport, Pennsylvania. By way of the rally Vance spoke about unlawful immigration and repeated claims concerning Hatian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio.  (Matthew Hatcher/Getty Photographs)

“You wish to make it possible for preexisting protection – circumstances – are coated, you wish to make it possible for individuals have entry to the medical doctors that they want, and also you additionally wish to implement some deregulatory agenda so that folks can select a well being care plan that matches them,” mentioned Vance. 

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“We wish to be certain that all people is roofed. However one of the best ways to do this is to really promote some extra alternative in our well being care system and never have a one-size-fits-all method that places lots of people into the identical insurance coverage swimming pools, into the identical danger swimming pools, that really makes it more durable for individuals to make the precise decisions for his or her households.”

The Harris-Walz marketing campaign launched a 43-page report attacking their Republican opponents’ well being care plan and highlighted 4 key ideas it says the Trump-Vance marketing campaign desires to finish. 

A demonstrator holds up a pro-Reasonably priced Care Act signal outdoors the U.S. Supreme Court docket because it hears oral arguments that problem the Reasonably priced Care Act in Washington on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020. (Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Name, Inc by way of Getty Photographs)

Sams mentioned he finally believes the November election can be “actually shut,” and voters would be the ones who’ve the ultimate say during which points are most vital for them as they head to the poll field. 

“I feel after we look [at] the truth that we’ve got solely 36 or so days left till the election, you already know, the candidates are going to must be on the market incomes individuals’s help. And this can be a 50-50 race,” he advised MacCallum. 

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“And so when you concentrate on a state like Michigan or you concentrate on Wisconsin or Pennsylvania, the place President Trump was this weekend for his rally in Erie, you already know, the voters wish to hear, what are you going to do for me?”