Minnesota Now with Cathy Wurzer

What we gleaned from key moments of the Walz-Vance debate in New York

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Republican vice presidential candidate, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), and Democratic vice presidential candidate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, greet each other ahead of a debate at the CBS Broadcast Center on Oct. 1, in New York City.
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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is off to Pennsylvania for more campaigning Wednesday. He got a morning jog in at New York’s Central Park after his vice presidential debate showdown with Republican JD Vance, a first-term Ohio senator and his party’s nominee for the No. 2 spot.

MPR News senior politics reporter Dana Ferguson is in New York and joins MPR News host Cathy Wurzer with takeaways from the only debate between the VP hopefuls.

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