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The United States stayed glued to the TV for what could be the last matchup before the vote, if those between Donald Trump and Joe Biden really jump because of the virus. It is the night of the deputies. But also of the two potential presidents, why 61enne Mike Pence and 55enne Kamala Harris they could take over at any time for health reasons of two such elderly leaders, even before they put their ambitions on the line in the 2024 elections. For this reason, John Hudak, of the think tank of the Brookings Institution, described it on the eve as “the most important debate in history 40 years, since those of the deputies began.”
The theater of the first and only confrontation between the numbers twos is Kinsbury Hall at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, the capital of a Republican stronghold state with a Mormon majority. Ninety minutes without commercial breaks, moderator Susan Page of Usa Today, with the aspiration of making people forget the chaotic and quarrelsome confrontation between their respective leaders.
The first skirmishes began long before the debate, with the confrontation between the two campaigns over the measures to take against the virus after Trump’s positivity. The first round went to Harris: Between the two candidates, sitting almost 4 meters apart, are the Plexiglass barriers that Pence’s team initially did not want. But Plexiglas has become only a plastic example of the divisions that separate the two rivals, in terms of style and values, from abortion to gay marriage, from immigration to racial protests. Until the pandemic, the hottest terrain after the new denial offensive launched by the president despite the virus having hit him and the White House staff.
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