Balachandran Gopalan says Mike Pence has an albatross around his neck, and that’s Trump.
New Delhi:
US Senator Kamala Harris’s uncle in Delhi proudly watched her vice-presidential debate today, feeling “a little sorry” for US Vice President Mike Pence, who he said he faced a more qualified enemy.
“The expectations were too much of Kamala: ‘he will clean the floor’, etc. But Pence has also been a congressman who knows how to debate. But Pence has an albatross around his neck, and that’s Trump,” Balachandran Gopalan, 79, later said of the American electoral debate in Salt Lake City.
“I felt a little sorry for Pence. You cannot ask about the judiciary; she was on the judicial committee, she was attorney general, she is an expert in Black Lives Matter, in the pandemic, he is on weak ground,” said the academic. He said.
In debate, Harris called US President Donald Trump’s Covid-19 response a historic failure, in a scathing but mostly civil discussion compared to Donald Trump’s chaotic confrontation with Joe Biden last week.
Harris, 55, was California’s first black attorney general, the first woman to hold the office, and the first South American senator in history.
She was born in California in 1964 to a Jamaican father, economics professor John Harris, and breast cancer specialist Shyamala Gopalan, Balachandran Gopalan’s late sister.
“My daughter in Washington saw (the debate), my sister in Toronto saw it and my younger sister in Chennai saw it too,” her uncle said.
“Her mother would have been happy for Kamala.”
“Although maybe Shyamala was much more impatient than Kamala at times,” he added. “I wouldn’t be surprised if Shyamala was the polemicist or in the audience; she would have said ‘what nonsense are you talking, Vice President?’
“But Kamala was kinder.”
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