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Harris-Pence: clash over pandemic but civil duel

2020-10-08T07:41:50.692Z


The Trump administration's handling of the pandemic was "the biggest failure in American history": it was Kamala Harris' first blow in the TV duel with Mike Pence. (HANDLE). (HANDLE)


    Sparks on the management of the pandemic in the first and only TV duel between the candidates for the vice presidency in 2020, the outgoing Mike Pence and the senator dem Kamala Harris, divided by the plexigas panels against the virus on the stage of the Kinsbury Hall of Utah University, in Salt Lake City.

"The Americans witnessed the biggest failure of a presidential administration in the history of our country", attacked the Californian senator, who accused the Trump-Pence tandem of hiding and minimizing the seriousness of the coronavirus, reproaching him with the 210 thousand deaths and over 7.5 million cases.

"The president has put the health of Americans first and has done what no other president has done, promoting the largest mobilization since World War II in health terms," ​​Pence replied.

His rival, however, did not rage on Trump who, still suffering from Covid, came out of the hospital to greet his fans in the car, theatrically returned to the White House taking off his mask and yesterday broke the quarantine by going to the Oval Office, from where in a video he promised everyone for free "the formidable cure" that put him back on his feet: an experimental treatment based on synthetic antibodies not yet authorized.

But Harris did not seem to be looking for the knockout blow, perhaps strong from the polls that give Joe Biden even 10 points ahead, as indicated by the latest Fox survey.

Unlike the chaotic and brawling debate between Trump and the dem candidate, their deputies have engendered a "civil" discussion, as USA Today moderator Susan Page had asked.

"It is a privilege to be here with her", Pence began gallantly, but then he was recalled several times for having overstepped the times or for having interrupted the opponent: "I'm talking", he repeated several times Harris.

The toughest battle over the pandemic and the vaccine.

"You and Biden are undermining public confidence in the upcoming vaccine," Pence said.

"I'll get it if Anthony Fauci tells me, not Donald Trump," the senator replied, evoking attempts by the White House to bypass the procedures for getting a vaccine before the vote.

Pence then implied that Biden had "plagiarized" his anti-covid plan from that of the administration.

Harris has dealt some other good blows on Trump's tax returns ("the country deserves an answer"), on his racism ("not only has he refused to condemn white supremacism but has revived"), on his friendships with dictators after having "betrayed our friends" on the "lost" trade war with China.

Pence accused her of persecuting more blacks than whites when she was prosecutor and tried to portray her as "the most liberal senator, more than Bernie Sanders".

The two clashed politely over everything, revealing that they represent two Americas at the antipodes: abortion, taxes, climate change, health care, racial protests.

But they have evaded more than a few questions, starting with whether they have a plan for a possible succession in the running, given the advanced age of the candidates.

Who cheered on Twitter during the duel: "Kamala Harris is proving to the Americans why I chose her as my deputy. She's smart, she's experienced and she fights for the middle class. She'll be an incredible vice president," Biden said.

"Mike Pence is doing great! She is a gaffe machine," Trump retorted.

In the end maybe Kamala won on points, but not by knockout.

Among the protagonists of the debate was also a fly that annoyed the vice president for a long time and that triggered the social networks, complete with the hashtag # fly2024: "can someone do the Covid test fly?" Asked one of the users.




Source: ansa

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