WASHINGTON – Vice President Mike Pence and Senator Kamala Harris have been fighting over taxes, surroundings and the Trump administration’s reaction to the coronavirus in a debate that has given Americans a more politically oriented and less fiery image of either campaign in the coming weeks. before the November 3 election.
The 90-minute exchange, the only vice-presidential debate in the 2020 cycle, has, as expected, a war opposed to President Donald Trump, who stayed in the White House on Wednesday to fight his own coronavirus case even as he tries to re-establish a crusade that polls are wasting flat in several states on the war camp.
Since its first moments, the conversation has been much more civilized than last week’s widely debatable debate between Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden. While Pence and Harris came here hot and sometimes contrasting in politics, they had much more time to talk about the issues.
“We are in the freedom and respect for the freedom of the American people,” Pence said in a discussion about the pandemic.
Harris replied, “You respect other Americans when you tell them the truth. “
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The two applicants sat 12 feet aside and were separated through plexiglass, inescapable evidence that the coronavirus pandemic has inflamed all facets of American life, adding the White House, where Pence was forced to explain why it was not quarantined amid an outbreak of instances among Trump’s most productive staff.
All members of the public, scattered and socially remote, wore a mask, and held them back, after being warned to kidnap them as Trump’s supporters in Cleveland did last week.
As widely expected, Harris sought to remain the target of mistakes perceived by the Trump administration, i. e. the highest number of deaths by COVID-19. Pence, on the other hand, ripped a page out of Trump’s playbook by claiming biden had been co-opted the game is left-wing and that Harris is an incarnation of that movement.
Harris accused Trump of calling those in the military “fools” and “losers,” terms in reports that Trump has denied using, and attacked the Trump administration for seeking to repeal the Affordable Care Act. , the signature physical grooming of the Obama administration At a particularly poignant moment in the debate, Pence asked Harris if he would like the addition of a justice to the Supreme Court, as some Democrats have requested. Harris did not answer the question directly.
There have been several notable cases in which none of the applicants responded directly, for example, if they had discussed with their respective presidential applicants how to handle a force movement in the event of disability. for some, given that Trump is 74 years old and Biden 77.
Analysts said Pence stood firm in the debate, and even won a tweet of help from the president for his performance, but with less than 4 weeks to pass and millions of voters have already cast their votes, some analysts have said Pence wants to go to a house. participate in the debate to help Trump cope with the deterioration in the number of votes.
Both hopefuls probably did what they had to do, several experts said, and at most vice-presidential debates, that probably wouldn’t replace the minds of many voters.
“Senator Harris played the most productive debate role she has given all year round. He collected political statistics, non-public stories and beards at the right time, as he proceeded to smile and remind Pence when he interrupted her that he was speaking,” Lara Brown said. , director of George Washington University’s Graduate School of Political Management. “Always
Aaron Kall, a debate trainer at the University of Michigan, argued that Pence entered the debate with diminishing and transparent expectations.
“There hasn’t been a major moment in the debate that moves the political needle or radically moves the independent electorate in the race,” Kall said. “Pence’s strong recovery functionality may be to bring the crusade to life and energize President Trump into his two functions of debate. “
– John Fritze, Ledyard King, David Jackson
In one of the final questions of the night, moderator Susan Page asked the two applicants how they would ensure a nonviolent force movement if Biden and Harris won in November. President Trump has refused to interact in a nonviolent force movement. .
Harris pointed to the broad coalition she and Biden have built, which includes Republicans, and added Cindy McCain, the wife of late Senator John McCain, and former Secretary of State Colin Powell.
Harris said Biden’s crusade believed “in the American people” and “in our democracy. “She suggested the hearing vote.
“We have in our strength the next 27 days to take the resolution on what will be the direction of our country over the next 4 years,” he added.
Under his leadership, if Trump rejects a nonviolent power movement, Pence insisted that he believed trump’s crusade would win re-election and accused Harris and Democrats of canceling the results of the 2016 election.
“President Donald Trump has filed a motion by Americans from all walks of life,” Pence said. “And I am convinced that it was the same Americans who won this historic victory in 2016.
The question of whether Trump will grant a closed election can be debatable: last week’s polls show that the president is following Biden in double digits.
– Courtney Subramanian
Pence tried to get Harris to answer a question she and Biden dodged: Are the expansion of the Supreme Court as advocated by many liberals?
Pence said the public deserved to know, calling it a classic case if it checks to replace regulations if it can’t win through regulations.
Harris to communicate about Republicans’ resolve to move forward and fill the existing position in the Supreme Court so close to an election.
“I am very happy that we have taken a little history lesson. Let’s do a little more,” he says. Harris returned in 1864, when he said Abraham Lincoln did not think it was right to hold a position 27 days before the election.
“Americans are voting right now and it’s their resolution that will be a member of this maximum life frame for life,” he said.
Pence noted that Harris had not said whether he wanted to extend the court.
“If you haven’t figured it out yet, the direct answer is that you’re moving on to the ideal court,” he said.
Harris said Trump had filled the bank with other “purely ideological” people. Of the other 50 people Trump has appointed to the appeals court, none are black, he said.
If Pence communicates about going to the court, she says, “let’s communicate it. “
“I only have the record to reflect,” Pence said, “that she never answered the question. “
– Maureen Groppe, Salt Lake City
Pence and Harris disagreed on whether “justice had been done” in the case of Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old woman from Louisville, Kentucky, who was shot by police in a drug-and-money search attempt that went terribly wrong.
None of the three police officers have been accused of killing Taylor, an unarmed black woman. An officer has been charged with unjustified danger in the first degree.
“I don’t think so,” Harris said when asked if justice had been done, adding that it broke his heart to talk to Taylor’s mother and his circle of relatives. “Your circle of relatives deserves justice. His life was unjustifiably taken away. “
Pence said, “Our center is broken for all American life without guilt. “He added: “But I accept our formula of justice as true: a grand jury that proved the evidence. “
– Joey Garrison
This will be at most the word that will seem maximum in the transcript of the first vice-presidential debate: “Thank you, Vice President Pence”.
There were far fewer interruptions during Wednesday’s debate compared to the presidential debate, but Pence followed a more unusual debate tactic that has been used through members on both sides: doing overtime to enter that last sentence or some other spike.
“Thank you, Vice President Pence,” USA TODAY moderator Susan Page repeated to verify the progress of the verbal exchange.
Pence even had a laugh line on the clock, according to reporters who were in the room with the two candidates. At one point, when Pence tried to ask for more time to respond to Harris, Page reluctantly said he had 15 seconds.
“I’ll have to have more than that, ” said Pence, sending a wave of laughter to the auditorium.
While the interruptions were less severe, they happened. Another word that came here was from Harris: “I’m talking,” he continually told Pence.
– John Fritze
Harris turned a long-term issue of the right to abortion into an argument that ranks in the Supreme Court.
When asked what he would do in his state of residence, California, if Roe v. Wade was canceled, Harris fought in the ongoing war to fill the Seat of the Supreme Court that became vacant following the recent death of Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Harris argued that the seat be filled through whoever wins on November 3.
On abortion, “I will fight for a woman’s right to make a resolution on her own body,” she said, stressing that the resolution deserves to belong to women, not Trump and Pence.
– Michael Collins, Salt Lake City
Senator Kamala Harris accused President Donald Trump of calling those who serve in the military “fools” and “losers, terms in reports trump has denied using.
Harris said it was vital for the commander-in-chief for Trump to ask him at Arlington National Cemetery, “What do you bring them?”She noted that Trump had said Senator John McCain did not deserve to be called a hero. for his military service because he was a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
“It’s very important to let us know who the current commander-in-chief is and what he cares about,” Harris said.
Pence, whose son serves in the military, Trump respects and worships the army.
“Any suggestion otherwise is ridiculous,” Pence said.
– Bart Jansen
Both applicants tried to stay on the message, which meant they were unwilling to answer questions that could potentially be problematic, especially on environmental issues.
For Pence, the question was whether climate change is an “existential risk” that wants to be addressed through rapid and competitive action. Trump questioned scientific climate change and called it a “hoax” despite evidence from his own administration that risk is genuine and exacerbated by human activity.
“As I said, the weather is changing,” Pence said, discussing the issue in detail. “We will stick to science. “
Then he went back to a favorable subject: taxes.
For Harris, it’s the Green New Deal, the ultra-progressive plan not only to combat climate change, but also to rebuild the economy, which included a call to loose housing for the deficient and an immediate end to fossil fuels.
Harris, who co-sponsored the Green New Deal, refused to communicate about the proposal, but instead turned to Biden’s plan to create millions of jobs in the renewable energy and carbon emissions sector until 2050. Biden turned down the Green New Treat.
After bypassing the Green New Deal, he also entered the attack, saying that “we have noticed a trend with this management that they do not see in science. “
– King Ledyard
Pence has invited the parents of a murdered aid employee to the debate to help him set out his views on global leadership.
“When Joe Biden was vice president, they hesitated for a month,” he said.
Mueller abducted on August 4, 2013 and raped and tortured for 18 months. His parents, Carl and Marsha Mueller, said Obama’s management had promised to do everything possible to investigate his abduction, but not enough.
Pence praised Trump for taking decisive action by killing one of Mueller’s Islamic State executioners, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Harris told the family circle that he knew his daughter and expressed his condolences.
“What happened has never happened,” he says. And I know Joe Biden feels the same way. “
– Maureen Groppe and Bart Jansen
The world’s leading COVID-19 patient is involved in the debate and, unsurprisingly, President Trump nods to his vice president on Kamala Harris.
“Mike Pence is doing great! He is a bug machine,” Trump said in one of the many articles published in the debate.
Among the messages, Trump repeated an excerpt from the debate and mocked Biden about China.
Trump’s cheerleader has made fun of her.
“Pence and Trump have perfected the art of intimidating the moderator, avoiding questions and encouraging discussions of a clown rodeo,” commentator Tim O’Brien tweeted.
– David Jackson
One of Pence’s main goals in Wednesday’s debate is to describe Harris as too liberal for working states on the battlefield that have subsidized President Barack Obama in the afterlife, but he switched to President Donald Trump in 2016.
Pence highlighted this point in the first hour of debate, in an exchange in which he claimed that Harris, a California Democrat, was “the top liberal member of the U. S. Senate in 2019, more liberal than Bernie Sanders. “
But for much of the debate, Pence pointed those attacks directly at Joe Biden than Harris he he hes. Pence questioned Biden’s cross-country position on taxes, accusing Democrats of taking environmental positions, such as the Green New Deal, which he said would “kill jobs. “
The resolution has continually put Harris in defense, countering Biden’s position not to ban fracking, for example, and not to raise taxes on Americans earning more than $400,000.
Biden has a long career as a centrist Democrat in American politics, but Trump’s crusade has tried to paint the Biden-Harris price ticket as subsumed through the left of the Democratic Party. the presidential debate last week when he told Trump that “I am the Democratic Party. “
– John Fritze
Harris accused Trump-Pence management of being comfortable with U. S. adversaries and betraying the acceptance of NATO allies abroad.
“You have to be unwavering with your friends, ” said Harris. ” What we’ve noticed with Donald Trump is that he has betrayed our friends and embraced dictators around the world. Let’s take Russia, for example. “
Harris said Trump had “talked to Vladimir Putin about the U. S. intelligence community” regarding Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election.
He said Trump had broken America’s reputation because “Donald Trump doesn’t see what it means to be honest. “
– Joey Garrison
Pence, when asked if he believes climate replacement has exacerbated herbal errors over the years, said he thought the weather would change, but minimized the severity of recent hurricanes and fires.
“The climate is changing. The cause is and what we’re doing about it,” Pence said.
He went on to say that Biden’s management would put america back into the Paris Agreement, a 2015 weather deal with nearly two hundred countries from which Trump has withdrawn.
Pence said the persistent fires that have ravaged West Coast communities can be helped by greater control of forests and said of hurricanes that “there are no more hurricanes than a hundred years ago. “
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Harris rebuked Pence for referring to the industry’s recent war with China as one of the Trump administration’s achievements.
“You’ve lost that industrial war,” he says. “You’ve lost it. “
Harris said the industry war with Beijing had taken on production jobs in the United States and hurt the country’s farmers, forcing many of them into bankruptcy.
“We’re looking for other people to find out how they’ll pay the rent until the end of the month,” he said.
– Michael Collins, Salt Lake City
On trade, Pence tried to attack Biden who was against China, while Harris lashed out at Pence for opposing the bailout of the auto industry.
Pence first questioned Harris’ complaint about Trump’s handling of industry negotiations with China.
“Did you lose an industrial war with China? Joe Biden never fought him,” Pence said.
He accused Biden of being a “animator of communist China in decades. “
Harris replied that Biden “is guilty of saving the American auto industry and you voted against it. “He referred to Biden’s role as Obama’s vice president to help automakers during the Great Recession and Pence’s opposition to that technique as a member of the House. .
– Maureen Groppe, Salt Lake City
Harris attacked the Trump administration for repealing the Affordable Care Act, the Obama administration’s characteristic physical care law.
“If you have pre-existing conditions, central illness, diabetic breast cancer, they come for you,” Harris said.
Trump’s leadership has subsidized a Supreme Court challenge that can override protections for others with pre-existing fitness issues.
Approximately one hundred million others in the United States may simply see premiums or higher refundable rates if ACA coverage that opposes pre-existing illnesses is repealed.
Pence called the ACA, also known as Obamacare, a “disaster. “He said the Trump administration has a plan for physical care and protecting others with pre-existing conditions, which is already in position under Obamacare, but has not provided major points. in a plan.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on September 24 to end medical billing for Wonder and others with pre-existing illnesses, but the directive has no legal weight and does not specify how it would be implemented.
– Courtney Subramanian
Harris criticized Trump-Pence’s leadership for environmental policy, accusing her of “believing in science. “
“Joe understands that the west coast of our country is on fire, my home state, California,” Harris said.
“Joe’s in science,” he says. We’ve noticed a style of this management, and it’s that they don’t do it in science. “
Harris did not answer a question directly about his future for the new Green New Deal, but rejected Pence’s accusations that Biden needs to ban hydraulic fracturing.
“Joe Biden will ban hydraulic fracturing,” he said.
Moderator Susan Page then asked Pence if she believed the weather replaced an existential risk to the country.
“We will stick to science,” Pence said, but then changed temporarily, accusing Harris and Biden of not raising taxes.
– Joey Garrison
Pence has made her percentage of interruptions about Harris and debate moderator Susan Page, and has not gone unnoticed on social media.
“A white man speaking in two is a very 1950s technique for debate,” tweeted Chris Lu, head of the Barack Obama administration.
Republicans say Pence is just to make things clear, yet other observers have said he has created an atmosphere.
“Pence doesn’t exactly look like a satisfied warrior,” the historian Michael Beschloss tweeted.
– David Jackson
In the first 30 minutes of the debate, the contrast between California’s African-American liberal senator and Indiana’s conservative vice president is not only political, but also stylish.
Harris was animated, smiling and denying with his head several times when he disagreed with Pence. Pence was more pressed, interrupting infrequently, telling him at one point “you are entitled to your own opinion but not to your deeds. “
At one point, Harris spoke of the “memorable” day when Biden presented him with a seat on the ticket.
“I imagine my mom who came to the United States (from India) at the age of 19
Think kindly of your position in history.
“I never expected to be on the same level four years ago, so I know the feeling,” he said.
– King Ledyard
Pence said “America’s economy” on the ballot, in response to a tax consultation.
“You just heard Senator Harris tell you that on the first day, Joe Biden will pay his taxes,” Pence said.
Harris protested, “That’s what I said. “
Pence then accused Biden of not “burying the economy under a Green New Deal,” abolishing fossil fuels, and banning fracking.
Harris replied that she thinks it is “intended to be a fact-based debate. “
“You’re entitled to your own opinion, but you’re entitled to your own deeds,” he said.
– Maureen Groppe, Salt Lake City
Sen. Kamala Harris attacked President Donald Trump for the amount he paid in income taxes, after the New York Times reported that he had paid $ 750 a year for two years.
“We now know that Donald Trump owes and is indebted for $400 million,” Harris said in reaction to a consultation on greater transparency about a president’s health. “It would be great to know who the commander-in-chief owes money to, because other Americans have a right to know what influences the president’s decisions. “
“Donald Trump hid everything,” Harris added.
Vice President Mike Pence shook his head as Harris spoke, who said Trump called the report wrong and paid tens of millions in payroll and asset taxes.
Pence called Trump a businessman who created tens of thousands of jobs. Pence said Trump started four years ago to “repair this economy, cut taxes, push back regulations, fight for free and fair trade. “
– Bart Jansen
Harris said the Biden as vice president because they shared the same values.
“Joe and I were raised in a very way, ” he said. “We were raised with prices similar to our work, the price and dignity of public service and the importance of fighting for the dignity of all.
Harris said she and Biden “share a goal, which is the American people. “
– Michael Collins, Salt Lake City
Pence did not respond to the moderator’s consultation by asking him to tell Trump what he would do if Trump could not do his homework properly.
Under Amendment 25, the president can temporarily transfer force to the vice president if he does enough. This can happen if, for example, President COVID-19’s illness worsens.
Instead, Pence accused Harris of betting on politics by saying that she would not accept Trump’s word that a vaccine is safe. He also attacked the Obama administration’s handling of swine flu.
“Harris didn’t face the head factor either, but he talked about his qualifications for the position.
– Maureen Groppe
In a fierce exchange of views with Pence on the Trump administration’s management of the coronavirus pandemic, Harris said he would take a vaccine to treat COVID-19 if medical experts had approved it.
She made it clear that she wouldn’t if only Trump said he’d get the vaccine. “If public fitness professionals, if Dr. Fauci, if doctors tell us we take it, I’ll be the first to do it, absolutely, ” said Harris. “But if Donald Trump tells us we accept it, I don’t accept it. “
Pence accused Harris of “undermining the public with a vaccine. “
– Joey Garrison.
Vice President Mike Pence said the Trump administration has “great confidence” in other Americans to adhere to federal fitness rules to cause the spread of coronavirus despite an occasion in the rose garden 11 days ago that it has a possible super spreader occasion for senior management. congressional officials and officials.
Ahead of Donald Trump’s perspective, several White House officials and Congress allies tested positive for COVID-19 after attending an occasion to announce Amy Coney Barrett’s appointment to the Supreme Court. Few others were seen in masks and seated from side to side.
Pence said “many people” on the vent had undergone coronavirus testing and, under pressure, the occasion took a position outside.
“President Trump and I accept as true with other Americans to make possible choices in the most productive interest of their health,” Pence said.
Pence accused Harris and former Vice President Joe Biden of focusing on the mandates of the coronavirus, adding, “We are in the freedom and freedom of the American people. “
– Courtney Subramanian
Senator Kamala Harris accused the Trump administration of withholding data on the severity and lethality of the coronavirus after learning last January.
Parents were worried about their children getting sick. Workers worry about wasting their jobs, but management can’t help but describe the dangers they face and the mandatory precautions harris said.
“The other American people had to sacrifice too much because of the incompetence of this administration,” Harris said. “It’s too much to ask other people. “
– Bart Jansen
After last month’s presidential debate, it became clear that President Donald Trump had risen to a plan to aggressively confront Democrat Joe Biden.
Similarly, just a few minutes before wednesday’s vice-presidential debate began, any of the campaigns had reassessed their technique after the confrontation. Pence remained silent as Harris broke the Trump administration’s reaction to the coronavirus.
“This management has lost its re-election,” he said.
Harris remained silent as Pence defended the greatest death toll in the United States, even though Pence fired on the former vice president in the wake of scandals beyond plagiarism.
“The truth is, when you look at Biden’s plan,” Pence says, “it sounds a little plagiarism. “
That, Pence said, is “something Joe Well a little bit. “
During their first era of discussion, Harris and Pence would cancel their opponents’ interruptions.
“I’m talking, ” said Harris as Pence tried to intervene.
The September 29 presidential debate largely rocked after temporarily derailing when any of the applicants insulted each other and Trump continually interrupted Biden, forcing moderator Chris Wallace to pressure the president to let him speak.
In clear popularity of the past debate, USA TODAY moderator Susan Page issued a warning to applicants at first.
“We need a debate, but America also deserves a civil debate,” he said.
– John Fritze
The first debate and vice-president of the 2020 election is underway.
Pence and Harris face off in Salt Lake City, Utah, at a critical moment in the race as President Donald Trump fights COVID-19, discussions about a stimulus to mitigate the economic effect of the pandemic have stagnated (again) and several box polls show that Democratic candidate Joe Biden has a narrow but developing advantage.
Both hopefuls will fight for 90 minutes for the virus, economy, physical care and other problems. Trump’s technique for the presidency can also be discussed.
– John Fritze
As Mike Pence and Kamala Harris debate, President Donald Trump’s aides strive to satisfy their preference to resume the electoral crusade as soon as possible, in all likelihood early next week.
The crusade is exploring the possibility of an occasion Monday in Pittsburgh, an assistant said. The assistant gave details and only said it would be an “occasion” and a “meeting” for the president hit through COVID.
Trump, who is still recovering from the virus, will also have a debate with Joe Biden in Miami, scheduled for a week from Thursday.
It is not known whether Trump will avoid any of the campaigns.
– David Jackson
Getting a spot in the audience for a national debate is a hot ticket.
This year, as the pandemic often does, there is a wonderful warning in the fine print.
The Presidential Debate Commission and the host site, the University of Utah, need price ticket holders to know that when it comes to coronavirus, they are alone.
“The price ticket holder releases the CPD and the host of the occasion from any duty of any kind and character. Arrangement. . . in case of fire, an herbal crisis arrangement . . . (including COVID-19)”, warns the mail in red letters.
– John Fritze
Guests who won the lottery for Vice Presidential Debate tickets wearing a salmon-colored surgical mask issued by Utah Host University.
Michelle Pedersen, 44, who studies the functionality of the opera and drove it to the level where the contestants will appear, said she was excited about the experience.
“It will be incredibly memorable that we have a woman, who is going to be fabulous tonight,” Pedersen said.
Juliette Ainsworth, 40, from France, has expressed her fear of the long run due to COVID-19, but fitness cares about the debate.
“I’m worried about the long run, but not about tonight’s debate,” Ainsworth said. “I think everyone’s taken care of it. “
Justin Ravago, 19, an undergraduate student in business economics in Boise, Idaho, said he expected a more appropriate debate than last week’s presidential candidates.
“I need to hear what they have to say that a crossfire of words, ” said Ravago.
– Bart Jansen
The official outdoor protest zone, the security perimeter of the vice-presidential debate, gave the impression of being ruled not by supporters of Mike Pence or Kamala Harris, but by dissatisfied protesters with Turkey.
However, there were enough other people there for presidential politics that it sparked heated debates.
“Make America what it is before Trump,” a Joe Biden supporter shouted at an organization of Donald Trump supporters.
Trump supporters booed when a truck passed, accusing Pence, as chairman of the administration’s coronavirus working group, of the number of other people who died from COVID-19.
Chris Quinones, 52, from Park City, Utah, said he came to campus to show it to the president because he was in favor of “law and order. “
“We don’t need our country to look like New York,” he said.
Quiñones, who wore a military mask and a blue Trump hat, said he voted for Hillary Clinton four years ago because he “knew nothing better. “
Quiñones said his eyes opened when the president accused Trump and felt that Trump’s movements were taken out of context.
“I made an 180, ” he said of her to Trump.
– Maureen Groppe, Salt Lake City
The University of Utah organized a lottery of student price tickets, with 60 lucky winners receiving seats in the hallway.
“In order not to interfere with the live televised occasion for the millions of other people watching the show, members of the live audience will have to shout to express their approval or disapproval of the occasions at the same level as the debate unfolds,” the publications say. .
Kingsbury Hall, the venue for tonight’s vice presidential debate, is the art of acting on the University of Utah campus and opened in 1930. The seal of debate, an eagle with the legend “Union and the Constitution forever”, hangs from the ceiling.
The publication also states that citizenship will hold the Presidential Debate Commission or the host of the occasion accountable for any illness, adding COVID-19.
– Bart Jansen
Sophomores Cooper McGee and Jake Larsen sat on garden chairs on the ledge in front of the windows on the second floor of their student rental home, attending the vice-presidential exhibit across the street at the University of Utah.
“I think I’ll lose it if we didn’t,” said McGee, a 20-year-old from Boise, Idaho, who studies business control at university and has just completed an online course.
The symptoms of Biden Harris 2020 in his garden obviously indicated what they supported in the debate.
“I don’t think America is moving in the right direction under Trump,” McGee said. “If I didn’t speak, then I wouldn’t do my part. “
– Maureen Groppe, Salt Lake City
No more spitting in the Plexiglass, and he won the Plexiglass.
After Vice Prespective Mike Pence asked that the plexiglass not be placed on his Deputy Chief Debate-level look, arguing that it is not mandatory to protect the spread of COVID-19, Pence’s team conceded Tuesday night.
Frank J. Fahrenkopf Jr. , co-chair of the Presidential Debate Commission, told the New York Times that Pence had agreed to place the dividers in Plexiglass.
Pence and Harris will be on the side of 12 feet and 3 inches with tables in front of them. The Plexiglass will be on either side, images of the debate on stage.
The Presidential Debates Committee incorporated the Plexiglass as a component of the new security rules installed after President Donald Trump and several Republican allies conducted COVID-19 tests just days after last week’s first presidential debate in Cleveland, Ohio.
But Marc Short, Pence’s staff leader, objected and said it was not mandatory due to other security measures, adding daily testing and widespread separation between applicants on stage.
“If she does, she’s more than welcome to surround herself with Plexiglass if that makes her feel more comfortable,” Short told The Washington Post Tuesday before granting later.
– Joey Garrison
Coronavirus. Bible. Systemic racism. Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Here are some of the words that can win a Bingo in the vice presidential debate.
There are custom “Debate Bingo” cards scattered around the tables in the University of Utah Media Leaderboard.
There is even a Bingo stamping device (which this journalist first thought was a hand sanitist) to seal cards while keywords rush to Mental Fitness. The Electoral College. Masks Electoral fraud.
Bingo!
– Maureen Groppe, Salt Lake City
Pence and Harris will meet Wednesday for their only debate. The 90-minute occasion begins at 9 p. m. ET and possibly not hard to find – it will air on all primary networks. benefits of real-time data verification and political context.
What are we watching for? For starters, the debate comes when the country has noticed that President Donald Trump is fighting his own COVID-19 case, and a steady flow of White House officials has also tested positive. This consultation, and the question of how the White House responded, is guaranteed. be in the midst of worries.
There are also other important issues. Both applicants will try to sell the same as a credible replacement for whoever becomes president in an election where applicants are around 70 years old (Trump is 74 and Biden 77). This particular dynamic makes this vice-presidential debate potentially more attractive. than those who preceded him.
– Maureen Groppe, Salt Lake City and John Fritze
Republican lawyers criticized Kamala Harris in advancing Wednesday night’s vice presidential debate, accusing Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden of spitting out “dangerous rhetoric” and seeming “an absolute for the rule of law. “
Attorney generals in Louisiana, Utah, and Arkansas have attacked Harris’ record as California attorney general and as a U. S. senator, particularly by raising his position on immigration, energy, gun control, police, and other issues. Critics can foreshadow Vice President Mike Pence’s. line of attack on Harris the University of Utah debate.
“Kamala Harris is harmful and causes division,” Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge said at a news convention in Salt Lake City. make as a United States senator, and Kamala Harris, in fact, has no explanation as to why she is the vice president of the United States.
Harris, who has been a junior Democratic senator from California since 2017, served as the state attorney general for six years before entering Congress. Republicans have reviewed her case as attorney general, arguing that she provides an idea of the kind of policy that would follow. if she and Biden were elected in November.
“We don’t need America to be California,” said Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, president of the Republican Attorneys General Association. “However, if we choose a Biden-Harris ticket, that is precisely what the Americans will get. “
– Michael Collins, Salt Lake City
Many supporters of Biden’s crusade expect to see Senator Kamala Harris confront Vice President Mike Pence, as former district attorney followed Brett Kavanaugh, Jeff Sessions and others who have testified before Senate committees she sits on (actually, that was the first this reporter heard of her driving taxi force after arriving in Salt Lake City on Tuesday).
Harris’ deceptive reputation in the debate was also consolidated through his attack on opposition beyond Joe Biden to buses in last year’s Democratic presidential debates.
But Harris is reaching the level of the vice presidential debate “to gut” Pence, said Symone Sanders, senior adviser to Biden’s campaign.
“He’s here to communicate with other people in the house and find out how they feel, their lives and their families,” Sanders told reporters Wednesday morning.
It’s a wise strategy, according to Christine Matthews, a Republican pollster and critic of Trump, who tweeted that she understands that Harris’ team has studied studies on how the electorate understands these situations.
“She will combat the stereotypes of an “unpleasant” while making contrast points,” Matthews tweeted.
Research through the Barbara Lee Foundation shows that the electorate will be a male candidate they don’t like if they think she’s qualified, but they probably wouldn’t vote for a woman if she’s not “sympathetic. “
– Maureen Groppe, Salt Lake City
None of the aspiring vice presidents arouse blurred emotions in most voters, according to a new Pew Research Center poll published before the vice presidential debate.
About one part (51%) registered electorate gives Pence “cold” ratings and a lower percentage (48%) said the same thing about Harris.
Just over a third (36%) feels “affectionate” towards Pence; 39% do it for Harris.
Ratings largely reflect partisan differences, with up to Republicans feeling positive about Pence but negative about Harris. The opposite is true for Democrats, according to a poll from September 30 to October 5, 11,929 adults, adding 10,543 registered voters.
– Maureen Groppe, Salt Lake City
Two of the limited number of visitors Kamala Harris can bring to the debate under COVID restrictions are Utah citizens who, according to the campaign, constitute “the communities and families that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will fight for. “
Teacher Deborah Gatrell, Blackhawk pilot and Army National Guard veteran, is also the Democrat who will run for the Salt Lake City council.
“As we all know, the election is where we see progress,” said Liz Allen, Harris’ communications director, on Wednesday.
State Rep. Angela Romero will also encourage Harris from the discussion room, who called her a longtime network organizer for progressive causes, equality and social justice.
– Maureen Groppe, Salt Lake City
According to a new Morning Consult/Politics survey, the electorate hopes to win the debate about the vice president.
Voters polled Oct. 2-4 gave Sen. Kamala Harris, D-California, the advantage over Vice President Mike Pence: 43% to 37%. This is basically due to the fact that independents decide for Harris while Democrats and Republicans are her party partners. .
But 57% of the electorate said they think Pence is in a position to enter the Oval Office if necessary, compared to 50% of Harris.
Pence did better overall because more Democrats found him willing to be president than the percentage of Republicans who said the same thing about Harris.
– Maureen Groppe, Salt Lake City
Aspiring vice president in the West after their debate in Salt Lake City.
Vice President Mike Pence is scheduled for Nevada on Thursday and Arizona on Friday.
Former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris are scheduled to travel to Arizona on Thursday, where they are scheduled to meet with Native American tribal leaders and embark on a bus tour through the “soul of the nation. “
Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff, is campaigning in Colorado on Thursday and Friday.
Biden will be in Nevada on Friday.
– Maureen Groppe, Salt Lake City