This year, the vice presidential candidates may face more scrutiny than usual from voters, considering both their tickets’ septuagenarian leaders as well as President Trump’s hospitalization for COVID-19. The first section of the debate focused on the pandemic and the Trump administration’s response, giving Harris an opening to attack the administration for its “ineptitude” and call out Trump for failing to warn the public about the dangers of COVID-19 as soon as he learned about the risks of its rapid spread. Ms. Harris forcefully defended her record. It was not especially scintillating or revealing. “I don’t believe so,” Ms. Harris said. ET and will be the only time Harris meets Vice President Mike Pence face to face before Election Day. Then she quickly noted her support for abortion rights before pivoting to the Trump administration’s effort to persuade the Supreme Court to overturn the Affordable Care Act. The candidates were separated by plexiglass out of concern for spread of the coronavirus from cases emanating from the White House. Deborah Gatrell is a veteran and teacher who is running for a seat on the Salt Lake County Council. Follow Business Insider Australia on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram. Mason: Mike Pence is the anti-Trump in many ways: soft-spoken, deliberate in his word choice, preternaturally calm. But the most compelling back-and-forth came when the candidates talked about the upcoming hearings to confirm Trump’s Supreme Court nominee. The data shows Trump is running $1.3 million in advertising this week in Michigan, where Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is spending $2.9 million. Vice President, I’m speaking,” she said at another. Pence comes off cool and disciplined in his own way, never raising his voice, even when telling viewers, “On Day One, Joe Biden’s going to raise your taxes,” or “Obamacare was a disaster,” or when he insisted that the Biden-Harris administration would crush the America energy industry. Harris was at the ready with facts and figures about the scope of the crisis. During the debate, Pence said that, when Joe Biden was vice president, the Obama administration “hesitated” in moving on al-Baghdadi, and when forces finally went in, Mueller had been moved to another location. “He interrupted me, and I’d like to just finish, please,” she said a third time. Relatives of Kayla Mueller were among Pence’s guests at Wednesday night’s debate with California Sen. Kamala Harris in Salt Lake City. Mr. Pence brought up economics and taxes when avoiding other questions. This page will be He previously was a columnist at the Seattle Times. |, Resources to help cope in this time of crisis, No drug take-back day in La Crosse Co. this year, but people can still dispose of old meds, The final presidential debate could see a change in strategy from either candidate, One hurt, power knocked out in Monroe Co. crash, Need COVID testing? Kamala Harris tried to make it about Trump and Mike Pence tried to make it about the economy, but in the end, a fly generated most of the buzz. “I’m speaking,” Ms. Harris pushed back at one point. He referred to questions that Sen. Dianne Feinstein asked of Barrett when she was nominated to her current post on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. “I will not sit here and be lectured by the vice president on what it means to enforce the laws of our country,” she said. The Democratic vice presidential candidate said Tupac – then corrected herself. The first -- and only -- vice presidential debate between Mike Pence and Kamala Harris is over. The Trump campaign is reportedly leaving a vice presidential debate ticket for Tupac Shakur as a jab at Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, who recently called the hip-hop icon, who was killed in 1996, the “best rapper alive.”. Mr. Pence, it should be noted, was the only man onstage on Wednesday, with Ms. Harris across from him and Susan Page, the Washington bureau chief of USA Today, serving as moderator. Harris has a strategy that she’d be wise to stick to. “She will be in media trainings as an example of what not to do when avoiding a question,” said Mr. Gorman, the Republican strategist. But details provided from Democratic advertising trackers reveal the phenomenon is more widespread. — Nicole Sganga (@NicoleSganga) October 7, 2020, “I can confirm that we have left a ticket for Tupac Shakur, who as we know is Sen. Harris’ favourite rapper alive,” Miller told journalists during a conference call. The Democratic vice presidential nominee said Wednesday during a candidate debate in Salt Lake City that “it’d be really good to know who the president of the United States, the commander and chief, owes money to.”. So viewers may be more sensitive to the interruptions and over-talking that are standard for politicians. By the end of the night, the disciplined debate seemed a news cycle or a presidential tweet away from being forgotten, and for a Biden ticket that is ahead in the polls, that is welcome news. The latest news, analysis and insights from our politics teams from Sacramento to D.C. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. “Men are evaluated based on potential, and women have to come with receipts. Debate preparation expert Robert Barnett joins 'Bill Hemmer Reports' with insight into the first 2020 vice presidential debate. The early focus on the coronavirus crisis clearly benefited the Democrat, who could go on offense assailing its mishandling by the Trump administration. But the vice president boxed Harris in when she said Biden would repeal the Trump tax bill on Day One, and she did not have a satisfactory answer to how that would affect non-stratospheric earners. Speaking to Mueller’s family, Harris said, “What happened to her was awful and it should have never happened.”. Harris is keeping hers, and oh-so-slightly going for the other side. Vice President Mike Pence speaks at the debate, where plexiglass barriers were added as a precaution after President Trump and other Republican officials and staffers were diagnosed with the coronavirus. Harris used her closing moments to say that Biden is the right person to make that happen. It was hard not to see the interjections and pushback refracted through the lens of gender in a contest where the outsize support of women is lifting the Democratic ticket. He says that undermining confidence in a vaccine is unacceptable. President Donald Trump’s campaign left the late rapper Tupac Shakur a ticket to Wednesday night’s vice-presidential debate as a dig to Sen. Kamala Harris following a recent interview, according to the New York Post. And that trajectory is not good for Mr. Trump. Pence had his work cut out for him in defending Trump, but he rose to the occasion by insisting that the nation’s tensions can be overcome. In a time of coronavirus and a terrible economy, do voters really want to hear about Putin? He coined a new tagline for the stakes of the election: “The American economy — the American comeback — is on the ballot.”, Democrats will find a lot to object to over how Pence characterized Trump’s economic stewardship. Get all the stories you need-to-know from the most powerful name in news delivered first thing every morning to your inbox. Harris immediately put Pence on the defensive, calling Trump’s pandemic response “the greatest failure of any presidential administration in the history of our country.”, Pence expressed sympathy for all those affected by the pandemic, and he accused Harris of “playing politics with people’s lives.”. Pence, as he has shown repeatedly over the last four years, is unflappable and sticks relentlessly to his script.

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