Usa 2020, the night of the deputies, is a clash between Pence and Harris

America glued back in front of the TV for what could be the last duel before the vote, if those between Donald Trump and Joe Biden really jump because of the virus.

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But also of the two potential presidents, because

could take over at any time for health reasons to two such elderly leaders, even before they stake their ambitions in the 2024 elections. For this reason John Hudak, of the Brookings Institution think tank, called it on the eve "the most important debate in 40 years, since those between the deputies began".

Theater of the first and only confrontation between numbers two is Kinsbury Hall of Utah University in Salt Lake City, capital of a Republican stronghold state with a majority Mormon.

Ninety minutes without commercial breaks, moderator Susan Page of Usa Today, with the aspiration to forget the chaotic and quarrelsome confrontation between the respective leaders.

The first skirmishes began well before the debate, with the clash between the two campaigns on measures to be taken against the virus after Trump's positivity.

The first round went to Harris: between the two candidates, sitting at a distance of almost 4 meters, there are the plexiglass barriers that Pence's team initially did not want.

But the plexiglass has become just 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.

Up to the pandemic, the hottest terrain after the new denial offensive launched by the president despite the virus having hit him and the staff of the White House.