Profs & Pints DC: Your Prep for the Vance-Walz Debate

Profs and Pints DC presents: “Your Prep for the Vance-Walz Debate,” an overview of research on political persuasion followed by a debate watching party, with Ethan Porter, associate professor of political science and media and public affairs at George Washington University and author of two books on when and how political views change.

Presidential campaigns exert enormous effort and resources to change our political beliefs. They release ads, give speeches, and participate in debates such as the pending one between J.D. Vance and Tim Walz. But what kind of voter persuasion actually works? Will anything that Vance and Walz say in debating each other alter the election’s outcome?

Come to DC’s Penn Social to hear such questions tackled in a pre-debate talk that will help you keep score and leave you much more attuned to what’s happening in your own mind and in the minds of others. The talk is…