The vice-presidential debate was not a game-changer. At this stage of the contest, that means Kamala Harris won. ed_kilgore writes Debates2020
It was a better debate than the presidential tilt, which isn’t saying much. Photo: Photo by JUSTIN SULLIVAN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images After last week’s disastrous Trump-Biden showdown, watching Wednesday’s vice presidential debate was a bit disorienting, as Kamala Harris and Mike Pence both spoke in complete sentences and now and then respected the rules of the encounter. Yes, Harris and Pence were mostly delivering predictable partisan talking points, but they delivered them reasonably well.
Unsurprisingly, moderator Susan Page began the debate with questions about the administration’s record in fighting COVID-19, and Pence didn’t have much to offer other than Trump’s decision to ban travel from China. Harris scored some easy points right off the bat, as Politico reported: And in her biggest sure-to-be-on-TV lines of the entire debate, Harris framed the election as a referendum on the administration’s COVID-19 record:
After that predictable battering, Pence made one significant unforced error by bringing up COVID-19 again when China policy was discussed. And he completely dodged any answer to related questions about health care policy, including the fraught issue of protections for people with preexisting conditions, which Trump keeps asserting he will somehow extend even as his administration battles in court to kill the safeguards currently provided by Obamacare.
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