Hello and welcome to the continuation of Al Jazeera’s vice presidential debate between Vice President Mike Pence and Democrat Kamala Harris, with Jennifer Glasse, editor-in-chief of Al Jazeera Americas, political editor Steve Chaggaris, William Roberts, Creede Newton and debate analyst Alan Schroeder.
By Patricia Sabga, editor-in-chief of Al Jazeera: After the clandestine barrier established in the first debate between President Trump and Democratic candidate Joe Biden, the debate among vice presidents presented Americans much more considerate about political differences.
When it comes to economic policy, the American electorate has been presented with competition plans that highlight competitive ideologies.
Pence introduced Trump’s formula of cutting taxes, pushing back regulations, and taking strong action against “unfair” industrial practices as the most productive to revive the pandemic economy.
He also said market forces would drive inventions to meet the demanding situations of a climate of conversion. Harris, on the other hand, referred to the highlights of Biden’s Build Back Better plan to revive the economy, a plan that includes raising taxes on the rich and businesses, making a $2 trillion investment in blank energy, getting better attention for young people and the elderly, and the government’s hand at boosting innovation and creating well-paid union jobs.
Trump’s technique will resonate with market advocates, while Biden’s plan will attract those in need of a government policy that seeks to address long-standing inequalities and are now expanding Both techniques have benefits and disadvantages.
It all depends on how they are executed and, ultimately, whether the next president can convince Capitol lawmakers to participate in their economic policies. After all, it’s not the president who controls taxes and spending. It’s Congress.
Candidates were asked if justice had been done in the case of Breonna Taylor, who had been shot through Louisville police, and Harris and Pence participated in a deeper debate about race and justice.
“I participated in these nonviolent protests,” Harris replied, referring to protests that began in reaction to the death of George Floyd, who died while in police custody in Minneapolis. “And I firmly believe, first of all, that we will never tolerate violence, but we will have to fight for the values that are expensive for us. “
Pence said of the Taylor case, in which a grand jury did not register any of the officials for fees directly similar to his death: “I accept as true our justice system, a grand jury that denied the evidence. And one notable fact is that, as a former prosecutor, he assumed that a grand jury composed of examining all the evidence was wrong.
Protesters oppose racial injustice and in favor of blacks following the grand jury’s resolution in the Breonna Taylor case of Louisville, Colorado, [Kevin Mohatt/ Reuters] Regarding George Floyd, Pence said, “There is no excuse for what happened to George Floyd and but there is no excuse for the riots and looting that followed. “
“The presumption you hear from Joe Biden and Kamala Harris that America is systematically racist and, as Joe Biden said, that he believes law enforcement has an implicit bias opposed to minorities, Array . . . it is an insult to the men and women who serve in law enforcement. “
“When he was a district attorney in San Francisco, when he left, African-Americans were 19 times more likely to be prosecuted for drug-related misdemeanors than whites and Hispanics. When he was California attorney general, disproportionate black incarceration in California increased,” Pence said.
Harris replied: “I will not be lectured by the vice president on our record of what we have done in terms of law enforcement and maintaining our network and commitment to reforming the system. Criminal justice of the United States,” said Harris, who was San Francisco’s attorney general and district attorney before running for the Senate in 2016.
By Patricia Sabga, Al Jazeera’s business leader: Harris also targeted the U. S. -China industry war, saying Trump had lost the industry war. at U. S. factories began to decline after the Trump administration began enforcing price lists on billions of dollars of Chinese imports.
But while safeguarding jobs in American factories is obviously a number one goal, it’s not the only one for the Trump administration.
Trump had a long list of complaints against China, among the most important: management has accused Beijing of intellectual property theft and ending Beijing’s practice of requiring U. S. corporations to transfer their technological knowledge to Chinese corporations. as a condition of doing business there.
“Americans are voting right now, and it’s their decision who will sit (on the Supreme Court) for life,” Harris said.
President Trump appointed Justice Amy Coney Barrett to the United States Supreme Court and the Republican-led Senate is moving fast with her confirmation. Democrats say the nomination to update the defeated Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg is up to whoever wins the elections.
Judge Amy Coney Barrett, nominated for Trump’s Supreme Court, attends a meeting with U. S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) on Capitol Hill in Washington if they win the election.
“If they win this election in any way, men and women, I have to tell other people across the country, if they appreciate our Supreme Court, if they appreciate the separation of powers, they have to reject the Biden-Harris price ticket in November, “Pence told me.
By Patricia Sabga, Al Jazeera’s business leader: Harris noted that Trump can simply leave the workplace with more tasks lost on his watch than he created. However, it is difficult to blame Trump’s policies alone for the large losses of tasks resulting from the pandemic.
It’s not just the U. S. economy that’s been falling, the global economy has fallen. A concrete example: tens of thousands of energy jobs in the United States have been lost to the pandemic because global demand for crude oil has fallen.
A fly lands at vice president Mike Pence’s head in the vice presidential debate wednesday, October 7, 2020 at Kingsbury Hall on the University of Utah campus in Salt Lake City [Justin Sullivan / Pool thru AP] https:// www. facebook . com / aljazeera / posts / 10159380369888690
Alan Schroeder, Al Jazeera’s debate analyst: “Usa Today moderator Susan Page has done a wonderful job of keeping this debate on track. Besides, his questions were very well worded. This does not mean that the questions are answered, but it is transparent that she has a very conscientious idea about what she needs to ask».
“After soleimani’s attack, there was a counterattack opposed to our troops in Iraq and they suffered severe brain damage,” Harris said.
“And you know what? Donald Trump has dismissed them as headaches. And it’s a Donald Trump style, where he called our men serving in our army fools and losers,” Harris said.
Trump is “concerned” about the data that Russia is supposed to have put “up to the heads of American soldiers” in Afghanistan and has not been able to confront Russia’s Vladimir Putin on the issue, Harris said.
Harris asked about his “definition of the role of American leadership” in 2020 and tossed Trump’s foreign policy record.
“You have to keep your word with your friends. He wants to know who his war parts are and keep them under control. He betrayed our friends and embraced dictators from all over the world,” Harris said.
“It’s about relationships. We keep our word, but Donald Trump doesn’t perceive that because he doesn’t see what it means to be honest. “
In his reply, Pence referred to Kayla Mueller, who kidnapped and murdered through “Daesh”, also known as ISIL or Islamic State, and whose circle of relatives he provides at Pence’s invitation. He blamed Obama’s management and Biden for not acting to save his life.
“When Joe Biden was vice president, we had the opportunity to save Kayla Mueller,” Pence replied, adding that his circle of relatives thinks that “if President Trump had been President Array. . . Kayla would be alive today. “
“China and the World Health Organization have played fair with the American people,” Pence said.
“They wouldn’t let us into China to get coronavirus data until mid-February,” Pence said.
– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 8, 2020
Biden opposed Trump’s resolve to limit flights from China and said it was “hysterical,” Pence said.
The president has lost his industrial fight with China and lost more jobs than any U. S. president, Harris said.
Young Americans who leave college are worried about whether they will find a job and many Americans are worried about paying rent, he said.
“That’s where the economy is right now, and that’s because of the crisis and the failure of that administration,” Harris said.
Pence responded that Trump had fought with China that “Joe Biden had fought. “
By Patricia Sabga, editor-in-chief of Al Jazeera: Pence and Harris told other stories of Trump’s economy before COVID.
Harris said Trump passed a tax bill that benefited the rich. While the Jobs and Tax Reduction Act benefited the rich more than workers from low- and middle-income sources, it reduced U. S. family taxes from the most sensitive to the back of the source of income. Income scale.
Pence gave credit to Trump’s policies, adding tax cuts, regulatory cancellations, and an offensive against industry practices that the Trump administration considers “unfair” to the economy’s strength before COVID.
But the jury doesn’t know the extent to which tax cuts contributed to pre-COVID growth. In addition, production jobs and industrial production began to decline after Trump introduced an industrial war with China in 2018.
Alan Schroeder, Al Jazeera Debate Analyst: “The tight shots of the applicants tell two very different stories: Pence’s mouth is tight and his eyes are blazing with anger. Harris smiles and looks amused, even when attacked.
Pence reiterated what President Trump says: “According to the most productive estimates, our air and our land are cleaner than ever, among the cleanest in the world. “
This is false, according to the PolitiFact fact-checking organization. “No classification puts the United States in the most sensitive place on its clean-up list,” they concluded.
– PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) October 8, 2020
“Saying something great about his opponent, as Pence did in congratulating Harris on the ‘historical character’ of his nomination, has a feature of the debates in recent years,” said Alan Schroeder, Al Jazeera’s debate analyst.
“It’s a bad idea, especially in times of polarization, and especially after Trump’s evil toward Biden last week. “
“On the first day, Joe Biden will pay his taxes,” Pence said.
“Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to raise taxes. They will bury our economy under a “$2 trillion” Green New Deal,” Pence said, banning hydraulic fracturing and fossil fuels.
Harris said Biden had said he would raise taxes on Americans earning less than $400,000 a year.
“Pence has the most unlikely task of protecting the White House’s reaction to the pandemic,” says Al Jazeera’s debate analyst Alan Schroeder, “but when he uses a word like” you’ll be in our hearts and prayers,” is more insulting than comforting. “
The occasion of the White House Rose Garden in which President Trump announced that Amy Coney Barrett is running for the Supreme Court as the guilty occasion of the spread of coronavirus among White House staff.
Pence talked about it tonight, arguing that performing the event, despite the risks, is about “respecting freedom. “
“President Trump and I accept as true with the other American people to make possible choices in the most productive interests of their fitness. And Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are constantly talking about mandates, not only terms with the coronavirus, but also about the government’s takeover of physical care. , the new green agreement under the control of the government. We are in the freedom and respect for the freedom of other Americans,” Pence said.
Harris replied: “Let us communicate about respect for other Americans. You respect other Americans when you tell them the truth. You respect other Americans when you have the courage to be a leader in communicating things that you might not want other people to hear but would like to hear, so that they themselves can do it.
“I need other Americans to know that other Americans know that from day one, President Donald Trump prioritized America’s fitness,” Pence said.
U. S. Vice President Mike Pence and Democratic Vice Presidential Candidate and U. S. Senator Kamala Harris participate in the 2020 vice presidential debate [Justin Sullivan/Pool through Reuters] “President Donald Trump has done what no other U. S. president has ever done. In other words, it has suspended everything from China, the largest economy of the moment in the world. Now, Senator Joe Biden has opposed that decision.
Pence, instead of answering the question of the moment about the role of the vice president, deceived Harris for saying that he did not accept as true the Trump administration’s accelerated efforts to expand a coronavirus vaccine.
“The truth is that we are going to have a vaccine in record time,” Pence said, telling Harris: “Stop politics with people’s lives. “
“Senator Harris, avoid undermining Americans’ confidence in a vaccine,” Pence said.
Alan Schroeder, Al Jazeera’s debate analyst: “In her first response, Kamala Harris describes how she will protect her case: start with a solid and detailed critique of Trump’s management and then pivot on how Biden’s management would do best.
“This two-by-one reaction flavor is anything applicants practice in their simulated discussion sessions. “
Moderator Susan Page’s first was Senator Kamala Harris on the coronavirus pandemic.
“What would a Biden management do in January and February that a Trump management would do?”Page requested.
The other Americans have witnessed the greatest failure of any management in our country,” Harris replied.
Trump’s leadership “knew” the severity of the coronavirus risk and “hid it. “
“They downplayed seriousness,” Harris said, “Joe Biden has “a national strategy for contact tracking” that would be implemented, Harris said.
USA Today’s Susan Page will moderate tonight’s debate and, before the start, asked everyone to keep their applause at all times.
“This debate is about you and me. It’s about the millions of Americans who will be watching it,” Page said.
“During the debate, please applaud, boo, whistle or laugh. “
“And if you send me intelligent karma, I’d thank you, ” he joked, “but quietly. “
Tonight’s debate takes place at Kingsbury Hall at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City and the pool reporter describes the setup there: “The level is set up with 3 separate desks and chairs of approximately 12 feet for any of the candidates. moderator, separated through plexiglass screens. . . . About 20 visitor seats are installed in front of the level, at least 6 feet (1. 8 m) away. »
A member of the production team holds a plan of the room while marking labels on chairs socially far from each other before the vice presidential debate at the University of Utah [Julio Cortez/AP Photo] The University of Utah decided by lot to 60 academics at the hearing, and the price tickets they distributed included a disclaimer for the Presidential Debate Commission and the University regarding the coronavirus: “The price ticket holder releases the CPD and the host of the occasion and from any responsibility . . . adding the occasion of . . . (adding Covid-19). “
In 1984, the first general election debate between male and female candidates proved treacherous to then-Vice President George HW Bush, says Al Jazeera debate analyst Alan Schroeder. Towards the middle of the debate, opponent Geraldine Ferraro uttered a phrase that resented millions of American women: “I am almost irritated, Vice President Bush, by her condescending attitude that she will have to teach me. foreign policy.
For the rest of the debate, Bush regained his balance.
Several U. S. women’s teams will reunite as Kamala Harris, the first colored on a main note, speaks tonight.
Activist groups, educational associations, and Americans across the country basically performed online “surveillance nights” while Harris debated with U. S. Vice President Mike Pence.
“I can say Kamala is ready,” said Rahdiah Barnes, president of the National Association for Multi-ethnic Communications in New York, which advocates for diversity in the media, and organized a night of surveillance. “It’s history. She has anything”. to prove, and I’ve heard her say a couple of things in the last few days, to know that she’s preparing for war. “
Vice President Pence’s crusade first rejected the proposal to have plexiglass barriers among applicants as a precautionary measure against coronaviruses, but then relented.
The pre-debate haggling over the main points of production dates back to the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon debates, says Alan Schroeder, a debate analyst on AlJazeera. com. plans, even the color of the back floor, who could have imagined that by 2020 the dispute would be about Plexiglas?
Even if Donald Trump did not have the foreign COVID-19 poster, he was still destined to dominate the vice presidential debate, especially after his disastrous opening assembly with Joe Biden, writes Alan Schroeder, an expert on presidential debates.
In the past, the president’s illness — and the uncertainty surrounding her fitness — presents a delicate challenge for Republican Vice President Mike Pence and complicates the task of Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, leaving her with a difficult line to walk. Even from his fitness bed, Trump takes the climax of the vice presidential debate.
Given trump and Biden’s age, like Trump’s COVID diagnosis, all eyes will be on their co-formulans.
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