Watch VP Mike Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris face off in only vice presidential debate of the year. Follow it all with TheBlaze team's live chat
Vice President Mike Pence and Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris will take each on in the year's only vice presidential debate tonight at 9 p.m. ET. You can watch the whole debate live right here AND follow TheBlaze team's live chat below where you'll get our take on everything from the moderator's questions and the candidates' claims to fact checks and media spin to plexiglass separators and COVID testing to social media reactions.
I don't mind Page listing things like infection numbers. But "the coronavirus is not under control" is not a fact, it's her opinion. Not a great way to start the debate.
They are incredibly strict on attendees wearing face masks during the debate. Here's what happens if they refuse to put their mask back on after being warned.
There is one question Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are repeatedly refusing to answer: Will you pack the Supreme Court?
Biden famously refused to answer the question during the first presidential debate last week.
And Harris has stayed on the same page so far.
Immediately following the last week's debate, she would not answer CNN's question about whether a Biden administration would seek to pack the high court.
It's an easy yes-or-no question. Even the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was clear in her opposition to the move.
CNN's Jake Tapper noted that there were many Democrats who were advocating court packing, yet the Biden-Harris campaign refused to "give us a straight answer" about the topic.
Harris responded by dodging the question.
A move that Tapper pointed out: "I will respectfully note that you also declined to answer that question with me."
Go ahead, guess.
Coronavirus? Nope. Not even in the top 5 most important issues.
Russian collusion? Negative.
Health care? Wrong.
Gun violence? Civil unrest? Police brutality? Nice try, but no.
Always remember and never forget: "It's the economy, stupid."
Top 5 most important issues for 2020 election (via Gallup)
- No. 1: Economy — 89%
- No. 2: Terrorism and National Security — 83%
- No. 3: Education — 82%
- No. 4: Health Care — 80%
- No. 5: Crime — 79%
This isn't the first 2020 election-related debate of the last year for Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris. She also appeared in multiple Democratic primary debates when she was fighting for her party's nod. But she failed — bigly. Here are her top 3 moments from those primary debates.
NO. 1: ATTACKS JOE BIDEN ON RACE
During the first set of Democratic primary debates Harris went after Biden for his comments about segregationist senators and his record as a senator on desegregation issues.
"I will direct this at vice president Biden, I do not believe you are a racist and I agree with you when you commit yourself to the importance of finding common ground, but I also believe and it's personal and it was hurtful to hear you talk about the reputations of two United States senators who built their reputations and career on the segregation of race in this country," Harris said to Biden.
Then she went after him on busing.
"But do you agree today that you were wrong to oppose bussing in American then?" Harris asked. "Do you agree?"
Naturally, when the GOP has gone after Biden on these same issues, Harris and her friends in the party and the media have attempted to block Biden from those same attacks.
NO. 2: "KAMALA HARRIS DESTROYED" BY TULSI GABBARD
During the second Democratic primary debate, Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard laid the wood to Harris, attacking the senator's record as attorney general of California.
Now, Senator Harris says she's proud of her record as a prosecutor and she'll be a prosecutor president, but I'm deeply concerned about this record. There are too many examples to cite, but she put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations, and then laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana. She blocked evidence that would have freed an innocent man from death row until the courts forced her to do so. She kept people in prison beyond their sentences to use them as cheap labor for the state of California, and she fought to keep cash bail system in place that impacts poor people in the worst kind of way.
The smackdown was so impressive that #KamalaHarrisDestroyed trended following the debate.
NO. 3: "TOP-TIER CANDIDATE"
Immediately following the second primary debate during which Gabbard took her to school, Harris bragged to CNN's Anderson Cooper that she — not Gabbard — was a "top-tier candidate."
Cooper asked Harris about Gabbard's attack, "Did you expect that from Tulsi Gabbard? Had you had interaction about that in the past? And how do you think it went?"
Harris replied, "This is going to sound immodest, but I'm obviously a top-tier candidate, and so I did expect that I would be on the stage and take hits tonight, because there are a lot of people who are trying to make the stage for the next debate."
"For a lot of them, it's do or die," Cooper interjected.
"Well, yeah," Harris responded, " especially when people are at 0 or 1% or whatever she [Gabbard] might be at."
A USA Today poll just a few days later showed Gabbard with a 1-point lead over Harris.
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