The first meeting between Walz and the families takes place as negotiations are deadlocked for a deal to release the hostages and establish a ceasefire in Gaza.

Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz on Thursday met with the families of Americans being held hostage in Gaza by Hamas, the Harris campaign said. Walz listened to the stories of the

Democrat Tim Walz and Republican JD Vance will face off next month in the only scheduled U.S. vice presidential debate, a chance for each man to reinforce his running mate's message to voters just weeks before the Nov.

Tim Walz, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, has accelerated his preparations for his Oct. 1 debate with Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), participating in policy sessions and mock debates in his home state and on the road.

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"I'm still recovering a little bit from the experience of trying to inhabit the mind of Mike Pence," Buttigieg recently joked.

With the vice presidential debate around the corner, Newsweek asked ChatGPT who it thought would come out ahead.

The governor’s role in Harris’ fundraising push began even before he joined the ticket. Walz held several last-minute fundraisers for Harris in the final days of her veepstakes selection, including at a woman-owned brewery in St. Paul.

Comfortable in khakis and an open collar, Walz couldn’t be more different from JD Vance, the awkward man in a boxy suit and an overly long tie. Instead of talking about ‘threats to democracy’, Harris’s running-mate made a football analogy about January 6th — and it went down a storm.