The first highly-anticipated first vice presidential debate hosted by CBS will start on Tuesday at 9 p.m. ET in New York City. 

The showdown between GOP Sen. J.D. Vance and Democratic Gov. Tim Walz is high-stakes with just 35 days left until the election. 

Both candidates have a lot to prove to American voters as they step into the spotlight – and will be trying to dispel the notion that they are not completely ‘weird.’

Walz may have deployed the term first to write off the entire Republican ticket, but a J.L. Partners/DailyMail.com poll of voters shows he has work to do too.

When 1000 likely voters were asked earlier this month who was the most weird of the two candidates, some 40 percent picked Sen. Vance, 40. More than a third, 35 percent, nominated Walz, the 60-year-old governor of Minnesota.

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