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SALT LAKE CITY: Republican Mike Pence will face his Democratic rival Kamala Harris at 9am Singapore time on Thursday (October 8) in the only vice-presidential debate before the November 3 US election.
The debate between Pence, 61, and Harris, 55, comes about a week after US President Donald Trump and his rival Joe Biden met in the first of three presidential debates.
Days after that debate, Trump was hospitalized for COVID-19. The coronavirus has spread through his inner circle, infecting dozens of top advisers, administrative staff and senior officials.
The vice-presidential debate does not normally attract as much attention as the presidential one. In 2016, the showdown between Tim Kaine and Pence drew 37 million, less than half of the viewers who saw Trump take on Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton.
After Trump tested positive for COVID-19 last week, the two people who would be next in line for the presidency behind two septuagenarians have taken on enormous importance.
