Tune in CBS News at 9 pm Eastern time Tuesday, October 1, when Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) faces Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) in the campaign season’s only vice-presidential debate, from New York City. NPR also will carry the debate live. 

Then come to The Hustings for analysis and help us choose the debate’s winner. Use the Comment section in this column if you lean left (regardless of who you think won the debate) or the Comment section in the right column if you lean right (again, regardless of who you think won the debate).

Or email editors@thehustings.news and indicate your political leanings in the subject line. 

Meanwhile, check out Pundit-at-Large Stephen Macaulay’s latest commentaries from the never-MAGA right, including “Advantage: Intellectual Arteriosclerosis?”, “Where Have You Gone, Edward Gibbon?”, “The Art of the Fraud” and “First Impression.” 

Don’t miss guest contributor Kate McLeod’s left-column take on the Harris-Trump debate, “No Debate Inflation.”

More left and right commentaries on the September 10 presidential debate, including a pro-Trump column by guest contributor Rich Corbett, can be found on page 2.

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