The vice presidential debate barely touched on ongoing chaos of the last two weeks.
announcing Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court, an event which Pence defended, neither candidate addressed much about these current events.
But neither Pence, 61, nor Harris, 55, answered very clearly when asked about the potential transfer of power to either of them, nor about the conversations they’ve had with their respective running mates. Harris seemed to deliberately avoid criticizing much about Trump’s heath, and the events preceding and following his positive diagnosis — a notably chaotic time in a country that now knows political chaos well.
“Whatever the vice president is claiming the administration has done, clearly it hasn't worked. When you're looking at over 210,000 dead bodies in our country, American lives, that have been lost, families that are grieving that loss,” Harris said. “This administration stood on information that if you had as a parent, if you had as a worker knowing you didn't have enough money saved up and now you're standing in a food line because of the ineptitude of an administration that was unwilling to speak the truth to the American people,” she later added.
He added that he and the president trusted the American public to follow recommendations and attacked the Biden campaign for suggesting a national mask mandate, a measure that former vice president Joe Biden has repeatedly mentioned that he would have instituted since the start of the pandemic.
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