Walz v Vance: two midwesterners miles apart in politics ready for debate

Democratic and Republican vice-presidential candidates will face off on 1 October in unusually critical debate

The football coach and the Yale law guy" go head-to-head in New York City on Tuesday night, as two midwesterners with very different styles and vastly diverging messages slug it out over the future of the US.

Tim Walz, the Democratic governor of Minnesota, faces the Republican senator from Ohio, JD Vance, in a vice-presidential debate that promises to be unusually significant in this white-hot election year. They will joust for 90 minutes under the moderation of CBS News as they seek to give their respective running mates - Kamala Harris and Donald Trump - a leg up to the White House.