US elections, for the polls Harris convinced more than Pence in the comparison between vice presidents



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FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT IN WASHINGTON
In the debate between Mike Pence and Kamala Harris there were no insults or cheap blows. And this is already news, remembering what happened on September 29 between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. According to “instant” polls, Kamala convinced more. The Californian senator outperformed Pence between 59% and 38%, according to the Cnn. Similar result also for the detection of Fox News, which used another metric to calculate personal satisfaction. Harris obtained 53% of the opinions in favor, against 40% of the opinions against; 47% of the “yes” against 48% of the “no”. The confrontation between the deputies, today October 7 at the University of Utah, the balance between the two camps does not appear to have changed. Joe Biden was and is ahead of Donald Trump.

There was a lot of anticipation, especially for the challenger’s performance. Harris confirmed a brilliant stage presence and he never allowed himself to be overwhelmed by an adversary in any substantially correct case. He flashed a dazzling wry smile, probably wowing Democratic voters and irritating Republicans. Pence always kept controleven when, toward the end, a fly landed for at least five minutes on her white hair. Objectively, the most difficult task was Mike himself. It is no coincidence that the Trump deputy avoided the most embarrassing questions for the administration. Starting with the management of the pandemic. The journalist from USA TodaySusan Page asked why the United States has such a high proportion of positive cases (7.5 million) and deaths (210 thousand) compared to the population. Pence took the plunge, questioning Anthony Fauci’s upbeat predictions in January and February, without recalling how the runaway coronavirus turned even the White House into an absurd outbreak. Then he brought up swine fever, a disaster caused by the Obama-Biden tandem. It eventually made it to China, which will pay for the culprit spread of the virus.

Harris played this first hand without problems, with all the elements in his favor, but presented only a crumpled alternative plan. It is not clear if Biden-Harris will try to impose the use of the mask throughout the federal territory, exceeding the powers of governors and mayors. Too often, the moderator has been unable to ask questions of Pence and sometimes even Harris. And as the minutes passed, it became clear that the confrontation actually revolved around the great absentee: Donald Trump, confined in the Oval Office, still in treatment for Covid. Kamala has spent most of her time attacking the president, attributing directly to him failure to fight Covid; the tax cut that favors only 1% of the population; ambiguity towards white supremacists and neo-Nazis; the denial of climate change; the betrayal of the allies in the world and the shameful embrace with regimes like Vladimir Putin.

On the other hand, Pence defended himself by retracing his career as a senator and later as vice president of Biden., accusing him of agreeing with China, which cost Americans hundreds of thousands of jobs; the green energy plan that would bring down the economy; the vacillations against Isis and its leader Al Bagdadi; breach of promise to move the US embassy to Jerusalem; the disaster of the health reform that did not work; the $ 1.8 trillion went to Iran in exchange for a mock nuclear deal. But there were also some passages where Harris and Pence were exposed firsthand. And the differences between the two political cultures faced in this election emerged. Susan Page asked if justice was served in the Breonna Taylor murder case. We are talking about the young African American woman murdered by agents who broke into the house where she was sleeping with her boyfriend on March 13, 2020 in Louisville, Kentucky. Police were looking for two drug traffickers who had nothing to do with Breonna and her partner. Harris did not hesitate: I do not think justice has been served, he said, referring to the Grand Jury decision that blamed one of the policemen only for the damage. Pence responded: I have faith in the justice system and respect the jury’s decision.

From there, the discussion expanded to the protests of the Black Lives Matter movement and what Kamala defined widespread systematic racism among the police forces, the judiciary and in prisons. Pence took advantage of the doctrine law and order, without mentioning it explicitly: one thing is the demonstrations, another is the disorder and the destruction that must be stopped. Trump’s congressman then made the only personal lunge, arguing that when Harris was a lawyer for San Francisco and then California as a whole, he framed a disproportionate number of African Americans and Latinos. Kamala replied dryly, but without refuting the merits of the comment: I do not accept lessons from the vice president. Here I am the only one who has done important research on violence against women and in banks. In California we were the first to introduce the body camera to monitor police behavior. The situation changed with the abortion. Trump appointed Judge Amy Coney Barrett, known among other things for her unwavering pro-life stance. Pence, however, put on the record: I don’t know how Judge Barrett would rule on Roe v. Wade (the landmark 1973 decision that legalized the termination of pregnancy in the United States).

Final in the name of cunning. Both Mike and Harris did not answer the question about the health conditions of their respective bosses and if the issue of a possible succession had been discussed with them in any way. Pence also managed to sidestep the issue of the peaceful arrangement of powers in the event of a defeat on November 3. Susan Page ended with a letter from an elementary school girl wondering why Democrats and Republicans are doing nothing but fighting. But it was actually still okay tonight

October 8, 2020 (change October 8, 2020 | 06:35)

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