Vice presidential candidate Gov. Tim Walz exaggerated claims about how many times he traveled to China, telling people he spent much more time there than in actuality.

Mr. Walz was willing to move the state swiftly to the left as soon as Democrats had an opening. He supported all but one bill that fellow Democrats approved, issuing a single veto last year.

Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) has touted traveling to China 30 times and being in Hong Kong when the Chinese Communist Party cracked down on student protests in 1989. But public records and a new statement from the Democratic vice presidential nominee’s campaign tell another story.

But Vance has faced a Democrat who sounds like Tim Walz before, and Walz hasn’t faced a Republican quite like Vance. A review of their prior debates finds two men not just with different styles of persuasion, but wildly different standards for what can and can’t be argued in public.

Tim Ryan, who lost a Senate race to Vance in 2022, offered his thoughts on how to best the Yale Law grad on the debate stage.