The coronavirus pandemic is certain to loom large over the event.
Those infected include Trump, 74, who revealed on Friday that he and first lady Melania Trump had tested positive for coronavirus after months of the president downplaying the severity of the deadly virus.WASHINGTON -- Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris will lock horns in Salt Lake City Wednesday night in the first and only vice presidential debate of 2020.
Pence and Harris will take the stage just two days after Trump was discharged from the hospital and into the care of White House physicians. Pence has tested negative for the virus, but as a precaution, he and Harris will be more than 12 feet apart and separated by plexiglass. "Both of the presidential candidates are old, and they have health issues," said Aaron Kall, director of the University of Michigan's debate program.
Pence has been among Trump's most loyal and outspoken defenders throughout his tumultuous first term. As a longtime public figure and a former talk-radio host, he's good at the sort of verbal jousting required in a debate. Pence scored a clear victory over then-Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's running mate, Sen.
"The vice presidential debate has always been more of a discussion and less of a podium battle than the top of the ticket debates," McKinney said. "This works in Pence's favor, because that's his style." Pence might take a similar tack, by contrasting the California senator's record with the Biden campaign platform she now supports."She really doesn't have to defend her record," Kall said. As Biden's running mate, her job "is to support the person at the top of the ticket. So her position is the position of Joe Biden.
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