The Mad Dash to Make 2024 Debates Happen

Walz’s Authentic Aura • Trump’s Antisemitism Game • “Big Dad Energy” [View in your browser]( | [Update your preferences](newsletter=vf) [Vanity Fair Hive logo image]( The Mad Dash to Make 2024 Debates Happen Good morning. What’s the state of the debates? It’s a question that’s become all the more pressing, [writes]( Brian Stelter, now that Democrats have reshuffled the presidential ticket. Both Kamala Harris and running mate Tim Walz have openly challenged their Republican contenders to a televised face-off, leaving networks scrambling for the privilege of playing host. But Donald Trump, who was originally scheduled for an ABC showdown with Joe Biden on September 10, is throwing sand in the gears by suddenly demanding that Harris let Fox News do the honors. Suffice to say, “the fall schedule is a blank piece of paper,” as one ABC executive puts it. Elsewhere, Eric Lutz [explains]( why Republicans can’t seem to puncture Walz’s aura of authenticity, while Bess Levin [catches]( Trump, of all people, using accusations of antisemitism against Democratic leaders. Thanks for reading. [Image may contain: Crowd, Person, Audience, Electrical Device, Microphone, Computer, Electronics, Laptop, Pc, and Speech]( [The Mad Dash to Make 2024 Debates Happen]( By [Brian Stelter]( [The emergence of the Kamala Harris–Tim Walz ticket, and Donald Trump’s flip-flopping on a planned ABC debate, have sent the networks and campaigns back to the drawing board. As one TV exec puts it, “The fall schedule is a blank piece of paper now.”]( [Read more button](   [Republicans Simply Can’t Figure Out How to Knock Down Tim Walz]( By [Eric Lutz]( [Kamala Harris’s running mate has displayed a kind of authenticity that is hard to fake—and even harder, it appears, for his opponents to attack.]( [Read more button](   [Donald Trump, Who Has Been Likened to Hitler by His Own Running Mate, Claims Tim Walz as VP Pick Is “Insulting to Jewish People”]( By [Bess Levin]( [Trump has also baselessly asserted that Kamala Harris, who is married to a Jewish man, “doesn’t like Jewish people.”]( [Read more button](   [Tim Walz Shows He Can Do It All (Warn Against the Dangers of Donald Trump and Make a JD Vance Couch-F--king Joke)]( By [Bess Levin]( [The Minnesota governor contains multitudes.]( [Read more button](   [Tim Walz at the Minnesota State Fair Redefines BDE: Big Dad Energy]( By [Kase Wickman]( [And can we discuss whatever is going on between the man and the turkey population as a whole?]( [Read more button](   Get on the list Subscribe to our Hollywood newsletter for your essential industry and awards-season news, every day. [Sign Up Now](   [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [LinkedIn](   This e-mail was sent to you by The Hive. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, vanityfair@newsletter.vf.com, to your address book. View our [Privacy Policy]( [Unsubscribe]( Sent from Condé Nast, 1 World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007 Copyright © 2024 Condé Nast