Polished performance by Vance shows Republicans have learned from the presidential debates that optics are everything
Polished performance by Vance shows Republicans have learned from the presidential debates that optics for swing voters are everything
Tim Walz supporter Clarissa Lynn with her 'Tampon Tim' poster ahead of the vice-presidential debate in New York. Photograph: Keith Duggan “I was open about it but not this open. I know who I am. If that loses friends, so be it. But my friends have stuck around. You know, humans are humans and we bond over what we bond over.”
Instead, the vice-presidential nominees were betting on their words travelling into the livingrooms of the midwest and battleground states and most importantly into the minds of the small percentage of undecided voters which both campaigns are desperate to woo and convince. It was a steady, unadventurous opening. But when Vance’s turn came, he took a vital few seconds to say hello.
For if the Republicans learned anything from the presidential debate, it is that optics are everything. Kamala Harris won hands down on facial gestures alone. Here, as Vance explained his startling about-turn on Trump over the course of eight years, when he moved from describing him as America’s Hitler to becoming his running mate, he spoke quickly and plausibly while on the split screen, Walz looked wide-eyed with worry.
Because it was left to the candidates to fact-check one another, it was only after the event it became clear that Vance had spent the 90 minutes engaging in what Van Jones, the CNN commentator, would describe afterwards as “sane-washing”, arguing that Vance had claimed that American energy production was down when it has increased, that there had been a peaceful transfer of power after Trump lost the 2020 election.That warning was music to Republican ears.
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