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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyone wondering why the debate moderators didn’t talk about:

-the military service records of either candidate?

-the two assassination attempts on Trump’s life?

Why were those topics not covered?[/quote]

1. Military service - both served honorably but also n very different ways. Not much there worth wasting precious debate minutes over.

Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance served four years in USMC public affairs, including one uneventful six-month deployment to Iraq. He went from a broken home life to a GI Bill education that culminated at Yale Law School.

Walz is also positive military role model from central casting: The high school teacher and coach, juggling his family and job with serving in his state National Guard one weekend a month and two weeks per year.

Walz joined the Guard when he was 17 years old. He’d just hit his 20 years for retirement when 9/11 happened, and he reenlisted. Over the course of his 24 years, he deployed for various natural disasters, and for one year to Italy in support of the war in Afghanistan.

2.  The two assassination attempts on Trump -are more related to presidential security and secret service which is being investigated and overhauled already due to the secret service being spread too thin - required to conduct surveillance/ intelligence in addition to physical protection of public figures. Also The first wannabe presidential hitman is a registered Republican. The second one is mentally ill.

IMO  the real public issue around the two Assassination attempts are gun safety and lack of resources for the mentally ill, which the debate did cover although not in depth. Guess which candidate has more policy ideas for reducing both gun violence and untreated mental illness?

It was bizarre that Vance declared the US has far higher rates of mental illness than Finland as a plausible explanation for sky high school gun violence in the US. Universal health care would provide mental health care to all who need it and Trump almost killed the Affordable Care Act twice even though Vance falsely declared he saved it.

The moderators raising  your two questions in the way you suggest would not have focused on core issues. [/quote]

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