SALT LAKE CITY – Vice President Mike Pence and Senator Kamala Harris face off in the vice-presidential debate of this election. Refresh this page to see the latest page.
One of Pence’s main goals in Wednesday’s debate is to see and paint Harris as too liberal for blue-collar personnel in battlefield states who have supported President Barack Obama in the afterlife and who have passed on to President Donald Trump in 2016.
Pence highlighted that point the first hour of the debate, in an exchange in which he said 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 measure has defended Harris on several occasions, counteracting Biden’s position not to ban fracking, for example, and not to raise taxes for Americans earning more than $400,000.
Biden has a long career as a centrist Democrat in American politics, yet the Trump 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’s betrayed our friends and embraced dictators from all over the world. Let’s take Russia, for example. “
Harris said Trump “had spoken with Vladimir Putin about the US intelligence community” regarding Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election.
He said Trump had broken America’s reputation because “Donald Trump doesn’t perceive 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 a Biden administration would put the United States back into the Paris Agreement, a 2015 weather deal with nearly two hundred countries from which Trump has withdrawn.
Pence said ongoing fires that have ravaged communities on the West Coast can be helped by greater forest control 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 damaged 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 attempted to attack Biden who opposed China, while Harris lashed out at Pence for opposing the rescue 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 responded that Biden “is guilty of saving the American auto industry and you voted against it. ” He was referring to Biden’s role as Obama’s vice president in helping 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 Trump management for repealing the Affordable Care Act, the Obama management’s health 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.
Roughly one hundred million other people in the United States may simply see higher refundable premiums or rates if ACA coverage opposed to pre-existing conditions is waived.
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 main 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 management of “believing in science. “
“Joe understands that the west coast of our country is burning, my home state, California,” Harris said.
“Joe is a scientist, ” he said. We’ve noticed a style of this management, and that’s because 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 talking about two is a very 1950s technique for debate,” tweeted Chris Lu, head of Barack Obama’s 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 liberal African-American senator and Indiana’s conservative vice president is not only political, but also style.
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 “transcendental” day Biden presented him with a place 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 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 have the right to your own opinion, but not to your own deeds,” he says.
– Maureen Groppe, Salt Lake City
Senator Kamala Harris attacked President Donald Trump for the amount she paid in income taxes, after the New York Times reported that she had paid $750 a year for the past 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 while Harris was talking. Pence 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 a consultation by the moderator who asked him to contact Trump about what he would do if Trump simply failed to 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 she was vaccinated. “If public fitness professionals, if Dr. Fauci, if doctors tell us we take it, I’ll be the first to take it, absolutely,” Harris said. “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-spread occasion for senior management officials and congressional 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 other people were seen masked and seated side by 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 as Pence tried to shoot 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 temporarily canceled their opponents’ interruptions.
“I’m talking, ” said Harris as Pence tried to intervene.
The September 29 presidential debate largely flipped 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 allow Biden to speak.
In clear popularity of the past debate, USA TODAY moderator Susan Page issued a warning to applicants from the start.
“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 clash 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 seek to satisfy their preference to resume the crusade as soon as imaginable, perhaps earlier next week.
The crusade is exploring the possibility of an occasion Monday in Pittsburgh, an assistant said. The assistant did specify, saying only that it would be an “occasion” and a “meeting” for the president beaten 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 seat for the audience for a national debate is a hot ticket.
This year, as on many occasions during the pandemic, 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 Array herbal crisis . . . (including COVID-19)”, warns the mail in red letters.
– John Fritze
Guests who won the lottery for tickets to the vice presidential debate wearing a salmon-colored surgical mask issued through 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 will be fabulous tonight,” Pedersen said.
Juliette Ainsworth, 40, from France, expressed some fear about 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 business economics student from Boise, Idaho, said he hoped for a more appropriate debate than the presidential candidates held last week.
“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 people there for presidential politics, prompting 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 tickets for students, and 60 lucky winners received a spot in the room.
“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, 20, from Boise, Idaho, who studies business control at the university and has just completed an online course.
The symptoms of Biden Harris 2020 in their garden made it clear which aspect they supported in the debate.
“I don’t think America is moving in the right direction under Trump,” McGee said. “If I didn’t talk, 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-Perspective Mike Pence asked that the Plexiglass not be placed in his aspect of the vice-viewer debate scene, arguing that the spread of COVID-19 is not to be protected, Pence’s team conceded Tuesday night.
Frank J. Fahrenkopf Jr. , co-chairman 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, saying it was not mandatory due to other security measures, adding daily tests 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 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 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 first-time reporter first thought was a hand sanitist) to seal cards while keywords rush through Mental Fitness. The Electoral College, Electoral Fraud Masks.
Bingo!
– Maureen Groppe, Salt Lake City
Pence and Harris will meet on Wednesday for their only debate. The 90-minute occasion begins at 21 h. ET and may not be difficult to find: it will be broadcast on all primary chains. 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 general of Louisiana, Utah, and Arkansas have attacked Harris’ record as California attorney general and as a U. S. senator, particularly by raising his stance on immigration, energy, gun control, police, and other matters. The complaint may presage Vice President Mike Pence’s line of attack opposed to Harris in the debate at the University of Utah.
“Kamala Harris is harmful and division-generating,” Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge said at a news convention in Salt Lake City. “I had no explanation as to why to be california’s attorney general with her for the rule of law. 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 Justice Secretary Jeff Landry, president of the Association of Republican Attorneys General. “However, if we have a Biden-Harris ballot, that’s exactly what Americans will get. “
– Michael Collins, Salt Lake City
Many supporters of Biden’s crusade expect Senator Kamala Harris to 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 his driving force taxi 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 is here to communicate with other people in the house and find out how they are feeling, 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 from the Barbara Lee Foundation shows that the electorate will be a male candidate they don’t like, if they think he’s qualified. But they probably wouldn’t vote for a woman if it’s not “nice. “
– 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
Voters hope to win the vice presidential debate, according to a new Morning Consult / Politico poll.
Voters surveyed October 2-4 gave Senator Kamala Harris, a Democrat for California, the lead 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 their partymates. .
But 57% of the electorate said they believed Pence was 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