Vice-president candidates JD Vance from the Republican Party and Tim Walz from the Democratic Party engaged in a vice-presidential debate today in what could be the last  face-to-face showdown for both camps, before the November 5 US election. 

How did both VP Candidates perform? What's the outlook for the final 5 weeks before the election? Do Vice-President debates even matter?

Samuel Garrett, Research Associate at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney weighs in on the Veep debate and gave his take on the impact of such debates.