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Harris and Pence avoided answering some questions.
The Vice President of the United States, Mike Pence, fiercely clashed with the Democratic candidate Kamala Harris about the Corona epidemic in the television debate dedicated to the candidates for the next vice presidency.
Harris accused President Donald Trump, during the debate that took place after midnight on Wednesday, GMT, of having “the most failed presidential administration in the history of our country.”
Pence said that Democratic candidate Joe Biden’s plan to fight the pandemic was an “intellectual theft” from the current White House administration.
Biden is ahead of Trump in opinion polls, 27 days before the elections scheduled for November 3.
In the 90-minute debate at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Harris was asked if he would take an approved COVID-19 vaccine that would be distributed before the next election.
He previously declined to say if he would.
Harris, 55, a California senator, said she would take the vaccine if top US officials approved it, but not if Trump promoted it.
Pence, a former Indiana governor known for his bland demeanor and unwavering loyalty to Trump, responded by saying, “It is unreasonable to continue to undermine public confidence in the vaccine if it is produced during the Trump administration.”
Pence told Harris, “Senator, I just ask that you stop bringing politics into people’s lives.”
He said he believes there will be a vaccine before the end of this year, although US public health officials have said such a vaccine is not expected to be distributed before the middle of next year.
The glass barriers separating the two speakers sitting 3.6 meters apart were a vivid reminder of the epidemic that has killed more than 200,000 Americans.
It was decided to increase the separation between Harris and Pence and place glass barriers on both sides of each of them in order to reduce the possibility of a possible transmission of Corona virus infection.
The organizers of the debates know that Trump may have carried the virus during his debate with Biden, and that he may have transmitted the infection to his opponent and to the debate leader, although tests revealed that they are not yet infected.
The president, who is recovering from the virus, returned to the White House Monday night after three nights in the hospital.
The debate between the two vice presidential candidates has gained importance because it may be the last in the event that President Donald Trump falls ill with Coronavirus.
And after the president contracted Covid-19, Americans realized that they had two oldest candidates in the history of the US presidential election. Hence the importance of who will succeed the president if something happens that prevents him from fulfilling his role.
Main discussions
This was a relatively polite forum between two communication professionals, compared to last week’s presidential debate between Trump and Biden, which turned into mutual insults and insults.
But the issue was not without heated debate in Wednesday’s debate.
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Glass barriers have been placed and the space between the two candidates has been increased to avoid the possibility of transmitting the Corona virus to each other
On the issue of racial justice, Pence expressed his dismay at the murder of George Floyd in Minnesota. But he added: “There is no excuse for the riots and looting that followed.”
He pointed to one of his guests in the hall, Flora Westbrooks, a black woman whose haircut was ripped apart during the Minneapolis riots.
“This assumption that you constantly hear from Joe Biden and Kamala Harris … that America is fundamentally racist, as Joe Biden said, that law enforcement has an implicit bias against minorities, is a huge insult,” added the vice president.
“Last week, the president of the United States had a debate in front of 70 million Americans and refused to condemn white supremacists,” said Harris, who made history by being the first black woman to participate in the vice president’s debate.
“It wasn’t like he didn’t get a chance. He didn’t, then he insisted and then he said when pushed, back off, get ready … that’s part of Donald Trump’s approach,” he said.
Pence rejected Harris’s words, arguing that when the latter was a state attorney in San Francisco, African Americans were more likely to be prosecuted for minor drug offenses than whites or Hispanics.
Other points The debate intensified in this regard:
- Harris said the retaliatory tariffs imposed by Trump on China have caused industrialization to stagnate, adding: “I lost that trade war.” Pence replied, “Did I lose the trade war with China? Joe Biden never fought it. Joe Biden has been a fan of communist China for the past decades.”
- Harris attacked Trump for paying $ 750 a year in federal income taxes as president, according to an investigation by The New York Times. “When I first heard it, I literally said, ‘You mean $ 750,000? And it was of course, $ 750 “.
- Ms. Harris said that Trump “betrayed our friends and embraced dictators from around the world.” Pence said Trump had ordered the assassination of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and Iranian General Qassem Soleimani.
The discussion was marked by questions that the two candidates did not answer directly.
Pence has pressed Harris twice on whether Biden will increase the number of seats on the Supreme Court, which houses nine justices, for a century and a half, but instead has spoken about Trump’s court nominee.
Pence did not respond to questions, including how the Trump administration would provide health insurance to American patients.
When asked by the moderator of the debate about his chances of becoming president, both candidates avoided delving into the matter.
Pence, 61, spoke about Biden’s handling of the 2009 swine flu outbreak, and Harris, the daughter of an Indian mother and a Jamaican father, spoke about her resume.
