An estimated 43.15 million viewers tuned in to the CBS News vice presidential debate this year, according to Nielsen, a media analytics company. The debate was held at the CBS Broadcast Center in New York City, and aired across more than a dozen stations.

Trump took to Truth Social to criticize the unsealing of a 165-page document from special counsel Jack Smith as a DOJ ‘hit job,’ while Harris discussed federal support for Georgia in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.

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.

Going forward, Trump adviser Jason Miller said the campaign may expand Vance’s travel docket and send him to blue states like Virginia, where Republicans see an opportunity to gain ground despite years of losses. Miller quipped that even Minnesota could be in play after its governor’s shaky debate performance on Tuesday.

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump praised their respective running mates -- Gov. Tim Walz and Sen. JD Vance -- as their campaigns worked to spin how well they performed at Tuesday night's vice-presidential debate.

Four years ago, 57 million tuned in to the only vice presidential debate of the 2020 election cycle between Harris and then-Vice President Mike Pence. In 2008, a record 69.9 million watched Joe Biden and Sarah Palin face off on television in the most-watched VP debate, according to Nielsen.

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.

Marcus Johnson, a student at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, dismantled one of the many bad faith arguments made by JD Vance in a post-debate voter panel with NBC's Jacob Soboroff--namely,

Harris and Trump debated each other last month in Philadelphia, a faceoff that Harris was widely regarded as having won. Harris has been pushing Trump to agree to another debate later this month, but so far, he has been reluctant to commit to a rematch.

A CNN/SSRS poll found that around the same amount of debate-watchers felt Vance or Walz “won,” and that they felt more favorable about both after the debate, but that the event mostly did not impact people’s choices of who to vote for.

Megyn Kelly is calling out CBS moderators for cutting JD Vance’s mic during Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate. The network didn’t rule out fact-checking the candidates but encouraged Donald Trump’s and Kamala Harris’ running mates to fact-check each other.