Democrat Tim Walz and Republican JD Vance clash during US vice presidential debate

Democrat Tim Walz and Republican JD Vance have clashed over the Middle East crisis, immigration, taxes, climate change and energy at a US vice presidential debate whose first half was heavy on policy disagreements but light on personal attacks.

The two rivals, who have savaged each other on the campaign trail, largely avoided going after each other on Tuesday night, instead saving their fire for the candidates at the top of their tickets, Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican former president Donald Trump.

Vance questioned why Harris had not done more to address inflation, immigration and the economy while serving in President Joe Biden’s administration — mounting a consistent attack line that Trump often failed to deliver while debating Harris last month.

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“If Kamala Harris has such great plans for how to address middle-class problems, then she ought to do them now — not when asking for promotion, but in the job the American people gave her three-and-a-half years ago,” Vance said.

Walz described Trump as an unstable leader who had prioritised billionaires and turned Vance’s criticism on its head on the issue of immigration, attacking Trump for pressuring Republicans in Congress to abandon a bipartisan border security bill earlier this year.

“Most of us want to solve this,” Walz said of immigration.

“Donald Trump had four years to do this, and he promised you, Americans, how easy it will be.”

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