It was a fact-checking flashpoint.okebet
In a tense moment at Tuesday’s vice-presidential debate, Senator JD Vance of Ohio clashed with one of the CBS News moderators, Margaret Brennan, over whether the ground rules for the evening allowed her to clarify his comments about immigrants in his home state. The pair went back and forth, and Mr. Walz started to cut in, before the network ultimately cut off both of the candidates’ microphones.
The awkward exchange may have been a result of confusion more than anything else.
The formal ground rules released by CBS News did not directly address the question of whether the moderators would unilaterally fact-check the proceedings. At the start of the telecast, Ms. Brennan and her co-moderator, Norah O’Donnell, told viewers they would offer each candidate “the opportunity to fact-check claims made by each other.”
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