Both vice presidential candidates faced accusations of avoiding difficult questions at their first and only debate on Wednesday.
"So the Trump Pence administration has been, because I sit on the Senate judiciary committee, Susan as you mentioned, and I've witnessed the appointments for lifetime appointments to the federal courts, district courts, courts of appeal, people who are purely ideological, people who have been reviewed by legal professional organizations and found who have been not competent are substandard," Harris said.
"And do you know that of the 50 people who President Trump appointed to the court of appeals for lifetime appointments, not one is black? This is what they've been doing. You want to talk about packing a court? Let's have that discussion."Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris has been a United States senator since 2017.
"But when you talk about accepting the outcome of the election," Pence said later."I must tell you. Senator, your party has spent the last three and a half years trying to overturn the results of the last election."Hillary Clinton"@VP ducked the q about what @realDonaldTrump said about peaceful transfer of power," tweeted NBC News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell."Democrats haven't day in [sic] enough to highlight this threat.
NBC News Correspondent Garrett Haake summed up many viewers' attitudes in a tweet:"GOP Twitter thinks Harris non-answer on court-packing was most important moment of the night. DEM Twitter thinks Pence healthcare non-answers and Pence rudeness on time were key. And everybody is tweeting pics of the fly."
Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris and U.S. Vice President Mike Pence participate in the vice presidential debate at the University of Utah on October 7 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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