'I think every woman knows a Mike Pence—someone who dismisses them, talks over them and treats them as if they don't belong there,' one Democratic strategist told Newsweek.
Republican strategists said that Pence's behavior on Wednesday night did little to help the matter.
Evan Siegfried, a conservative commentator and president of the public affairs firm Somm Consulting, said both Pence and Harris could leave the debate stage being able to claim victory with their respective bases, but that the vice president also"had the job of trying to arrest the free fall he and Trump are having with women voters.""His interrupting of not only Senator Harris, but Susan Page did not help that mission," Siegfried said.
Overall, the CNN survey found Harris was determined to be the winner of the debate by most registered voters. About six in 10 respondents said Harris won, while 38 percent said Pence did a better job. Although there have been previous vice-presidential candidates who were women, Harris was the first woman of color to take the debate stage as part of a major-party presidential ticket, which set the expectations very high. Women are typically held to a different standard than men when they debate on the big stage of national politics.
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