Mary Katharine Ham said that Democratic vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz is a “confident and affable speaker” but “still a socialist” who wants to “take away [your guns]”. She also said of Politico and The Washington Post receiving 270 pages of Trump campaign hacked emails, for which the campaign has blamed Iran, that “when you have that information, it’s fair game to act on it in a responsible way.”

Tim Hogan said that it is “hard to say that [Walz] is far left if you know him” and that Minnesota crime is at a 60-year low under Walz’s leadership as the state’s governor. He also said about the Trump email leak that reporters ought to be mindful of how “every little scoop feels like a huge inflammatory thing” when they “drip, drip, drip” all the “tidbits of information” they receive, as happened with the email leaks leading up to the 2016 DNC.

Caroline Downey said that Donald Trump continues his attacks on Joe Biden, including in his hour-long Mar-a-Lago news conference, because he is “baffled” by the “Machiavellian maneuver” to kick him out and that “[Kamala Harris’] campaign success so far has been basically ‘astroturfed’ by legacy media” while she gives little to no time to the press. She also said that it is “not an effective line of attack” for Trump to target Harris for her past relationships, like with former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, and he should instead focus on her “radical” record.

Kevin Corke said that the “infuriating” decision by Kamala Harris to give Tim Walz the VP nod over PA Governor Josh Shapiro “will be a catastrophic decision looking back if they lose this election because I think they did it for the wrong reasons.” He also said of recently fired Bloomberg Senior White House Correspondent Jennifer Jacobs, “I don’t blame her, I blame [her editors]” for breaking the embargo on news of the U.S.-Russia prisoner swap that included WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich.

Charlie Gasparino said that there is a “strain of truth” to Trump branding America’s steep market decline last week a ‘Kamala crash’ because there is an “undercurrent of fear of another Democratic administration that might be more progressive than even Biden.” He also said “there is no doubt” that the vice president “stole” Trump’s policy position to end tax on tips.