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.
“Saying something great about your opponent, as Pence did when congratulating Harris on the ‘historic character’ of his nomination, has a hallmark of debates in recent years,” said Alan Schroeder, debate analyst at Al Jazeera.
“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 Amy Coney Barrett as a Supreme Court candidate is mentioned as the guilty occasion of the coronavirus among White House staff.
Pence talked about it tonight, arguing that 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’s 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 world’s largest economy right now. 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, we’re 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, debate analyst at Al Jazeera: “In her first response, Kamala Harris describes how she will present her case: start with a solid and detailed critique of Trump’s management, and then turn on how biden management would do best.
“This two-by-one reaction 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 could 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 twenty visitor seats are installed in front of the level, at least 6 feet 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 contenders proved treacherous to then-Vice President George HW Bush, notes AlJazeera. com debate analyst Alan Schroeder. Nearly halfway through the debate, opponent Geraldine Ferraro uttered a phrase that resoned. with millions of American women: “I am almost irritated, Vice President Bush, by your condescending attitude that you will have to teach me about foreign policy.
For the rest of the debate, Bush recovered.
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 surveillance evening. “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, a presidential debate expert.
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.
To say that his diagnosis of COVID-19 is a “blessing from God,” Donald Trump is committed to making experimental “free. “
The prospects for additional aid opposed to congressional viruses before the election are fading, to see hopes for specific aid revived.
What we know, and we don’t know, about President Donald Trump’s fight opposed to COVID-19 after testing positive on October 1.
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