How JD Vance and Tim Walz Really Felt During the VP Debate

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Ohio Sen. JD Vance and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz faced off in a highly-anticipated vice presidential debate on Tuesday, and the two candidates tried and failed to hide their nerves, according to a leading microexpressions expert.

“Tim Walz, you can specifically see [nervousness] in him tensing his inner eyebrows with worry, lifting up the inner eyebrows, showing that he is nervous,” explains expert Annie Särnblad, who did an analysis of the CBS-televised event exclusively for the Daily Beast.

On the other hand, “JD Vance shows his nerves by repetitively swallowing,” says Särnblad. “JD Vance repeats this swallowing almost every time he gets called out for having a different stance from Donald Trump.”