US vice presidential candidates JD Vance and Tim Walz will face off Tuesday in a debate that promises to be a contentious battle to win over voters in middle America, who could decide the cliffhanger 2024 election.The Republican Ohio senator and the Democratic Minnesota governor make for a study in contrasts and have already traded a series of bad-tempered insults in the bitter race for the White House.The combative Vance, 40, shares former president Donald Trump’s gift for courting controversy, whether by smearing Democrats as “childless cat ladies,” spreading bogus stories about pet-eating migrants or questioning his rival’s military record.Walz, 60, is a folksy Midwestern former teacher and high school football coach who was chosen at lightning speed by Vice President Kamala Harris after his attacks on Vance and Trump as “weird” went viral.
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