Trump has continued to stress that abortion policy should be left to the states and that doctors have a duty to provide emergency care to women whose lives are in danger. Vance, for his part, has said his remark about childless women were misinterpreted and that he wants to support families.
There’s much more to come from Harris and Walz.
Civil: Republican J.D. Vance with his Democratic rival, Tim Walz, after the vice-presidential debate.Credit: AP
Harris has taped an interview with CBS’ 60 Minutes that will air Monday night (Tuesday AEST). She is booked Tuesday on Howard Stern’s satellite radio show, ABC’s The View and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on CBS. Walz will be on Jimmy Kimmel’s ABC show on Monday.
In a 60 Minutes excerpt released Sunday, Harris navigated around a question about whether Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was “a real close ally,” saying that “The better question is: Do we have an important alliance between the American people and the Israeli people? And the answer to that question is yes.”
And nearly a week after his verbal stumbles in the only vice presidential debate, Walz used his debut campaign appearance on a Sunday news show to try to fend off criticism of his stand on abortion rights and to “own up” to past misstatements.
Walz’s Fox appearance also touched on the turmoil in the Middle East, with anchor Shannon Bream pressing the Minnesota governor on whether Israel has a right to preemptively attack Iran’s nuclear and oil facilities in response to Tehran’s firing of missiles against Israel. It was a question that Walz did not fully answer during his debate this past week with Vance, an Ohio senator.
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Walz said Sunday that “specific operations will be dealt with at the time” and he spoke of “consequences for what they do.”
He said Israel has a right to defend itself and that Harris worked with Israel this past week to repel the Iranian attack. President Joe Biden said last week he would not support an Israeli strike on sites related to Tehran’s nuclear program.
Walz defended a law that he signed as governor to ensure abortion protections, saying it “puts the decision with the woman and her health care providers.”
Trump has said he would not sign a national abortion ban into law, and during the interview Sunday, Walz was asked whether he was calling that “a flat-out lie.”
“Yes ... of course,” Walz said.
Walz also faced questions in the interview about misstatements related to his military service, drunken driving arrest, infertility treatment for his family and claims to have been in Hong Kong during the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre in China.
“I will own up when I misspeak,” Walz said. “I will own up when I make a mistake.”