The vice presidential showdown on Tuesday, Oct. 1, is expected to be the last debate before the November election.

JD Vance is focused on next month’s election. But the vice-presidential debate went a long way toward building his brand for a potential 2028 run.

Registered voters who watched Tuesday’s debate between vice presidential nominees Tim Walz and JD Vance were closely divided over which candidate did the better job, according to a CNN instant poll of debate watchers conducted by SSRS,

VP nominees JD Vance and Tim Walz had their first, and perhaps only, debate Tuesday. So, who won? No one actually wins. Here's why.

In one of the most notable exchanges of the vice presidential debate, JD Vance refused to say Donald Trump lost the 2020 election and downplayed the events of Jan. 6.

An edited sampling of BostonGlobe.com readers' reactions to the scorecards of eight Opinion writers, who evaluated JD Vance’s and Tim Walz’s respective performances after the vice presidential debate ended Tuesday night.

While the Walz-Vance debate, which was noted for being a relatively civil affair, was viewed by almost 25 percent less people than its predecessor, the Harris-Pence debate was also the second-most watched VP debate since Nielsen began keeping records.

According to an average of late-Tuesday polls from CNN/SSRS, YouGov/CBS News, Focaldata/Politico and J.L. Partners/DailyMail.com, 48 percent of debate watchers thought that Vance was the winner or turned in the best performance, while 46 percent thought that Walz was the winner or did the best.

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Viewership will likely be lower than the 67 million who watched Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump debate on Sept. 10. Four years ago, [58 million people watched](htt

CBS moderators Norah O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan had an important choice to make ahead of Tuesday’s vice-presidential debate: would they directly fact check the candidates’statements live in the moment?