Perhaps we've forgotten how lovely boring could really be. This vice presidential debate was significantly more civil and more watchable than that shambolic event of last week. The Trump White House is falling apart at an astonishing pace. That is our mission at Vox. “They still don’t have a plan. The unemployment rate has continued to fall, but white workers are doing much better than Black and Latino workers. He would be in quarantine. Coming into tonight's debate, the Trump campaign was. That the debate probably changed few minds does not make it insignificant, however. Who Won The VP Debate? Sen. Kamala D. Harris and Vice President Mike Pence faced off Wednesday night in the lone vice presidential debate of the 2020 election season. She seemed simultaneously passionate and relaxed as she prosecuted her case against the Trump administration.

One day Trump will exit the stage, and Pence will want to take over. The views expressed in these commentaries are their own. Moderators ask about so many topics so quickly that there is no time left for in-depth conversation. Senator Harris made it clear to viewers. But before dismissing Wednesday night's encounter as a Seinfeld show about nothing, consider a couple of takeaways. President Trump posted a sharper and calmer performance during his final debate against former Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday night, but it was unclear if …
The vice presidential debate was the one America needed. This isn't a debate about differences in policy — it's a debate about what the state of our nation and democracy will be in decades to come. The Trump administration always focuses on the visuals. Pence flunked that test, not least because his boss has Covid and is working in the Oval Office without quarantining himself. Independent Premium Comments can be posted by members of our membership scheme, Independent Premium. There is much -- so very much -- to abhor in what has already come and may yet come from a second Trump term. Unlike Pence, who seemed to think Americans wouldn't notice his feeble attempts to gaslight them on Trump's failed Covid-19 response, Kamala Harris talked directly to millions of American impacted by Trump's ineptitude. “This was Trump’s best debate ever,” the 2021 Staten Island borough president hopeful wrote. Undecided voters often decide on style and substance over policy.

“Biden is ahead but Trump can still win.”. We've heard from all four candidates.

But somehow, it has always been a loser. Sometimes it seems that the handful of disaffected Republicans in the Lincoln Project are more willing to just say the obvious. The vice presidential debate has ended.

Ah, it was nice to be back in 2012...if only for a night. “Trump was sharper and far more disciplined tonight,” said Mackowiak, who believes the performance could provide some late momentum that could help the Republican Party hang onto its slender majority in the US Senate.

But Wednesday’s debate presented an opportunity for some #KHive supporters to celebrate how far their candidate has come. She missed a few opportunities to score points, including when she failed to attack the Trump's administration handling of a Covid outbreak in the White House itself. Both candidates did do that without question and without hesitation. "I don't think that's going to change any minds," she said. Hospitals are overwhelmed, and the governor has authorized a field hospital at the state fairgrounds to try to treat overflow patients.
Kamala Harris came into the night representing a campaign that appears to be winning. The point is to figure out if the people on the stage can serve as commander in chief. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes.

With time running out, they desperately needed a victory tonight. He sliced and diced his way through taxes, fracking, the Green New Deal, and which ticket is best to handle America's future recovery, winning every exchange on those topics. It's time for Democrats to be more direct about the threats that the nation faces under a Trump presidency. What a difference a week makes.

Okay,” she said at one point. Joe Biden does,” she said at the outset of the night when discussing the administration’s coronavirus response.

The exchange over packing the Supreme Court was an epic failure by Harris (and Biden last week), and Pence played it perfectly. Privacy Notice All she had to do was cite the facts about the Trump administration's catastrophic handling of the coronavirus. For approximately 90 minutes, the country was transported to a post-Donald Trump era of politics.