Susan good evening, from the university of utah in salt lake city, welcome to the first and only Vice President ial debate of 2020, sponsored by the nonpartisan commission on president ial debates. Im susan page of usa today. It is my honor to moderate this debate, an important part of our democracy. In Kingsbury Hall tonight, we have a small and socially distanced audience, we have taken extra precautions during this pandemic. Among other things, everyone in the audience is required to wear a face mask, and the candidates will be seated 12 feet apart. The audience is enthusiastic about their candidates, but they have agreed to express that enthusiasm only twice, at the end of the bait, and now, when i introduced the candidates. Please welcome california senator Kamala Harris and Vice President mike pence. [applause] susan senator harris and Vice President pence, thank you for being here. We are meeting as President Trump and the first lady continue to undergo treatment in washington a
White house correspondent for the white house journal. The question, how can you expect americans to follow the administrations safety guidelines to protect themselves from covid when you at the white house have not been doing so . The first question to the Vice President. And kenneth with the washington post, susan pages questions so far are incredibly incisive, cutting, but fair. She was doing a great job controlling the debate. Its a lot easier to control pence and harris van to control the president than to control the president than to control the president. Pence is literally ignoring the questions he was asked. To answer a question of his choice. Unclear if that will irk voters or if it is savvy debate strategy. Senator harris was asked a similar question and she also did not answer it. Okeefe says notable that susan page asked Kamala Harris to ask whats up with Green New Deal . She never explicitly says the biden plan is or is not the Green New Deal. Says pence gets asked a Cli
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