SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – Vice President Mike Pence and Democratic challenger Kamala Harris traded barbs through plexiglass shields Wednesday night in a debate dominated by the coronavirus pandemic.
Pence said Trump has constantly put the American people first. The president himself was back at the White House recovering from his own battle with the virus.
The debate was far more civil that last week’s when Trump constantly interrupted and was almost yelling at times in his faceoff with Joe Biden.
Pence, during on the issue racial injustice acknowledged that what happened to George Floyd in Minnesota “should not have happened,” but went further to black violence that breaks out during protests.
Flora Westbrooks, is one of Vice President @Mike_Pence’s guest at the debate tonight.
Her salon was burned to the ground by Left-Wing rioters.
There is no excuse for what happened to George Floyd, but there is also no excuse for rioting and looting.#VPDebate pic.twitter.com/U2x9Mx7jM7
— Team Trump (Text VOTE to 88022) (@TeamTrump) October 8, 2020
Harris said President Donald Trump’s handling of the pandemic, which has killed more than 210,000 Americans is “the greatest failure of any presidential administration.”
Senator Kamala Harris attacked Vice President Mike Pence for the Trump administration’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic , calling it the 'greatest failure' in U.S. history https://t.co/LcKJCVpfVt #VPDebate pic.twitter.com/E2Al0szyeY
— Reuters (@Reuters) October 8, 2020
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