"I am a knucklehead at times," Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz sheepishly admitted last night, in what will almost certainly be the final debate of this year's national election cycle.

The Minnesota governor was responding to CBS News co-moderator Margaret Brennan, who asked him why he lied about having been in China at the time of the Tiananmen Square demonstrations in 1989, an event that Walz claims inspired his life in public service. Instead of simply admitting he had misspoken about this supposedly formative international experience, Walz took the question as an invitation to expatiate at unnecessary length on his small-town Nebraska roots and path to elected office. In a rare follow-up question, Brennan pressed for a definitive answer that she did not receive.

That was not the only Bidenesque gaffe in Walz's underwhelming performance against Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance. Virtually every available poll and analysis—including from multiple media outlets that skew Left and, in their post-debate polling, often oversample Democratic or likely Democratic voters—has declared Vance the debate's winner. In the same week in which the addled incumbent president confused Houthi militants in Yemen with American dockworkers preparing for a major strike, Walz mixed up Israel........

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