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SALT LAKE CITY (UTAH) – No one has jumped the fly on the nose, but we lost very little. Despite numerous lunges and moments of nervousness – and, indeed, the presence of an annoying insect that has landed several times on the gray hair of the acting vice president – Mike pence me Kamala harris, have maintained a truly seraphic calm during the 90 minutes of the debate of the numbers two, the only one of this campaign where the running partner of the candidates in the race.
Giving TV Americans a better show than a week ago, when the outgoing president’s showdown Donald trump and the challenger Joe biden it had become a match seasoned with insults.
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Competing on stage, divided by those Plexiglas barriers over which the teams of the two candidates fought for 48 hours, were two opposing views of America. But for one night, at least, they clashed with political arguments, and not personal crimes.
“Handling the pandemic is the biggest failure of an administration in the history of the United States,” Harris said, responding to the first question from moderator Susan Page, head of the Washington bureau of the USA Today newspaper. “From day one, President Trump has put the health of the Americans first” replied the no of the republic, taking the blow, knowing full well that with the positive and isolated president in the White House, the virus is definitely the heel Achilles these elections.
But when Harris attacks him by reproaching him “you knew the danger of the virus and you hid it by minimizing its severity: the president told Bob Woodward, claiming that he does not want to create panic,” Pence uses the usual technique: talk about it. Being bitten by the moderator: “Be more respectful.” While Kamala charges: for strategy rather than shyness, as advisers have advised her to keep her tongue under control. And your determination. In order not to appear like a “nasty black woman”, an “angry black woman”, and therefore be perceived by the white public as dominated by a sense of revenge.
However, he manages to earn respect. With firm kindness he returns to the word: “Now it’s my turn.” A curtain that is repeated several times in the next hour, with him going over the answers or talking about them: and she repeating three times: “I am speaking …” also making a stop gesture with her hand. Succeed in trying to make the Republican seem, even if reasonably calm, a kind of overpowering.
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Pence tries to undermine her credibility and on a couple of occasions he turns to her saying “Senator, you can have your opinions, but you can’t change the facts.” Then he accuses him of wanting to “undermine confidence in the future vaccine. To stop doing politics in people’s skin.” A very curious phrase to say in a country that has exceeded 7.5 million infections and has more than 210,000 deaths. He defends himself by questioning the famous virologist Anthony Fauci: “If he says it works, I’ll believe him.”
We talk about the environment (“You signed the Green New Deal, you’re farther left than Bernie Sanders” accuses him) of economics (“Joe has a plan to fight unemployment,” says Harris, blowing the slogan and Elizabeth Warren ). And on taxes: “It would be nice to know who Trump owes money to,” Harris says, referring to the New York Times scoop that Trump hasn’t paid taxes for 10 of the 15 years and has only paid $ 750 in the first two years for Casa Blanca.
But it is especially when it comes to China where the tension rises: “You have lost the trade war with the dragon,” says the Democrat, reciting data with the precision of her experience as a prosecutor. “Biden has never faced her,” Pence snaps back, putting in one of the few offensive phrases of the night: “Biden is China’s cheerleader.” Yeah well, a ponpon girl. “Their trade war has cost the United States 300,000 jobs,” Kamala froze.
The most difficult moment for the dem comes when the vice president remembers that in the room are the parents of di Kayla Mueller, the Christian activist who was kidnapped by Isis and held as a sex slave by Al Baghdadi, who died in an attack. “Joe Biden and Barack Obama had the opportunity to save her. But they hesitated too much and when they made up their minds they had already moved her,” recalls Pence: “If it had been Trump who defeated Isis, Kayla would still be alive.” But Kamala also manages to reverse that. Remembering the president’s unpleasant phrases about fallen soldiers during World War I: “Losers.”
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On a sensitive issue such as abortion, both remain vague: “I will always fight for the right of women to make decisions about their own body,” declares the dem, however, speaking of the appointment of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court : “It cannot be ratified now. There are 27 days until the elections and 4 million people have already voted.” Pence, however, gives him one of those responses that immediately circulates on social networks: “If it is confirmed and you win the election, you will increase the number of judges: you cannot win according to the rules, you change them …”
The debate is about to end: Pence attempts a personal attack: “You prosecuted blacks when you were a prosecutor, 19 times more than whites.” And she itches: “I don’t take lessons on how the law is implemented …”
Always considered a minor confrontation, incapable of displacing votes, the debate of the numbers two this time has taken on a new importance. With the Democratic leader in his late 80s and the positive president, who has returned to the White House but is not out of the woods yet, two potential presidents clashed. Who for one night made America speak the language of politics again.
