![]() That means, in political shorthand, turning the race from a referendum on Trump to a choice between the incumbent and Biden. The challenge for Pence - as it has been for Trump throughout the contest - was getting voters to focus on something other than the country’s struggle against a once-in-a-century pandemic and the resulting economic slide. One thing hasn’t changed since the 2016 campaign: when Trump is front and center, he suffers politically. Our take on the first and only debate between vice presidential candidates in 2020. Opinion Editorial: The Pence-Harris ‘debate’ was civil, contentious and not very enlightening “They knew what was happening and they didn’t tell you,” Harris said. “I want the American people to know from the very first day, President Trump has put the health of the American people first,” Pence insisted Wednesday night.īut Harris had none of it, saying Trump and Pence had learned of the danger of COVID-19 in January but chose not to share that information with the public until the president did so in March. Pence, who heads the White House Coronavirus Task Force, faces his own credibility problem, having steadfastly refused to call out the president’s repeated reckless claims. ![]() (Would all those health precautions - protective shields, extra social distancing - have been necessary on the debate stage if the disease wasn’t so dangerous?) Polls show most voters don’t buy Trump’s efforts to equate COVID-19 with the common flu or, for that matter, his overall handling of the pandemic. ![]() Pence’s heaviest lift may have been persuading Americans that he and the rest of the Trump administration have done a bang-up job on COVID-19, even as the president could plausibly be labeled a super-spreader of the virus that has killed more than 210,000 Americans. “They want to bury our economy under a $2 trillion Green New Deal,” he said, claiming the Democratic plan to fight climate change - which Biden has kept at arm’s length - would “ cost hundreds of thousands of American jobs all across the heartland.” Kamala Harris and Mike Pence met in Utah for the only 2020 vice presidential debate. Politics A round-by-round scorecard of the vice presidential matchup Pence just squinted and shook his head lightly when Harris charged that Trump had “lost that trade war with China.” Biden should talk, Pence said, he’s “been a cheerleader for communist China” for decades. ![]() “It looks a little like plagiarism, which is something Joe Biden knows a little bit about,” Pence said, a dig at the scandal that forced the former vice president to abandon his first White House bid in 1987. He also accused Biden of stealing the administration’s plan to fight the pandemic. On Wednesday night, the vice president wore his stoicism like a drab-colored cloak, seldom varying from the steady mien that has been his default countenance as a congressman, Indiana governor and unshakable Trump loyalist.īut calm did not equal nice. That task frequently falls to Pence, a stolid Midwesterner and devout Christian. Critics and even some friends of the tempestuous president have suggested the need for a grownup in the White House, to present a more sober and serious face to the world. ![]()
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