Perhaps a sign of what is to come, happy warrior Walz has been busy trying to lower expectations for his upcoming performance.

During a rare interview on MSNBC, he told Rachel Maddow, “Look, he’s — he’s a Yale Law guy. I’m a public school teacher, so we know where he’s at on that.”

Walz can pretend that Vance’s Yale education is what is giving him the upper hand, but the reality is that the senator has just had more practice taking punches. He has been sitting down for combative interviews with the mainstream media for weeks now.

Walz on the other hand prefers to take questions from his own running mate on topics like “white-guy tacos” and Bruce Springsteen. Not exactly high stakes stuff, even by Democratic Party standards.