Vance and Walz’s Debate Remarks on Economic Policy, Fact-Checked

Senator JD Vance, a Republican from Ohio, left, and Tim Walz, governor of Minnesota. 

Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg
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Vice presidential nominees JD Vance and Tim Walz met for their first and potentially only debate before the November election, as the two Midwesterners with economic populist streaks try to win over undecided voters. They clashed over abortion, immigration and the crisis in the Middle East. When it came to economic policy, they traded barbs over taxes, prices and the deficit.

Here are the candidates’ economic statements fact-checked.