When and where will the vice presidential debate between Vance and Walz take place?

Democrat Tim Walz and Republican JD Vance will face off in the only scheduled U.S. vice presidential debate next month, offering both sides an opportunity to get their running mate's message across to voters just weeks before the November 5 election.

Here are some details about the event:

When and where will the debate take place?

The 90-minute debate, moderated by CBS Newswill take place on October 1 at 9:00 p.m. ET (1:00 a.m. GMT on October 2) in New York City, a Democratic stronghold and the former hometown of Donald Trump, the Republican presidential candidate running against Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris.

Who are the moderators?

The debate will take place in CBS Broadcast Center and moderated by CBS “Evening News” Presenter Norah O'Donnell and Face the Nation presenter Margaret Brennan.

How can you follow the debate?

The event will be broadcast on CBS Network and live streaming on all platforms where CBS News 24/7 And Outstanding+ are available. CBS said the show will also be made available for simulcast.

The presidential debate between Harris and Trump on September 10 ABC News attracted 67 million television viewers.

What are the basic rules?

The ground rules for the debate are not yet public. At the presidential debate in September, candidates' microphones were muted when it was not their turn to speak and there was no studio audience.

What can we expect from Walz?

Walz, the governor of Minnesota, will likely use his reputation as a “regular guy” to appeal to voters, including some independents, who find Harris, a former senator from California, too liberal.

Walz, 60, is a former congressman who won election in a Republican-leaning district before becoming governor.

As governor, he pursued a progressive agenda that included free school meals, tax cuts for the middle class, and more paid leave for Minnesota workers.

Walz will likely try to rile Vance, as Harris successfully did in her debate with Trump. Walz has questioned Vance's Midwestern credentials and derided his 2016 memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy,” for its portrayal of rural America.

“Like all the regular people I grew up with in the heartland, JD went to Yale, got his career funded by Silicon Valley billionaires, and then wrote a best-seller denigrating that community,” Walz said at his first rally as Harris's vice presidential candidate. “Come on! That's not what the American middle class looks like.”

Walz, also a former high school teacher and football coach, dismissed Trump and Vance as “creepy and, yes, weird” – a comment that was widely shared among Democrats.

The Democratic vice presidential candidate linked Vance to a series of conservative policy proposals known as “Project 2025,” from which Trump has tried to distance himself.

What can we expect from Vance?

Vance, a U.S. senator from Ohio, will have to work hard not to remain on the defensive throughout the debate if Walz uses Harris' debate strategy.

Vance, 40, will likely face questions about his inflammatory rhetoric and could hit back with his typically combative style.

He was criticized for calling Harris and other Democrats a “bunch of childless cat ladies” in 2021. More recently, he also spread false claims that Haitian migrants in the city of Springfield, Ohio, were eating pets.

He also claimed, without evidence, that the suspect in the recent assassination attempt on Trump was responding to the Democrats' inflammatory language.

“The big difference between conservatives and liberals is that … no one has tried to kill Kamala Harris in the last few months, and now two people have tried to kill Donald Trump in the last few months,” Vance said in comments that earned him a rebuke from the White House.

During the election campaign, Vance portrayed Walz and Harris as radical liberals.

He also questioned Walz's portrayal of his military service and his family's fertility problems.

Vance, who served in the Marine Corps and served as press secretary during a six-month deployment to Iraq, accused Walz of leaving the Army National Guard to avoid being deployed to Iraq and falsely claiming he had served in combat.

Walz, who served in the National Guard for 24 years, retired to run for Congress. He defended his record, but the Harris campaign acknowledged that he had slipped up in a 2018 video when he spoke of “weapons of war that I carried to war.” Walz never deployed to a combat zone.