Covid-19 dominates vice presidential debate

THE issues of Covid-19, China and climate change along with the Supreme Court nominee and race dominated the only vice-presidential debate with both Vice President Mike Pence and Senator Kamala Harris sticking to their known campaign positions on each of these pressing topics.

Pence, who entered the debate as an underdog, was seen vigorously defending the actions of the Trump Administration during the past nearly four years. And at times he successfully challenged his opponent with questions like the one on Green New Deal and Supreme Court to which she had no answer.

Harris, who created yet another history, by becoming the first person of Indian descent to be on the stage of a vice presidential debate, charmed with her smiling face throughout responding to answers to her opponent with facts and figures with the same assertiveness as she started her career as a district attorney in San Francisco.

‘This administration has forfeited their right to re-election,' she asserted at the start of the 90-minute debate in Salt Lake City of Utah on Wednesday night moderated by journalist Susan Page from USA Today newspaper.

‘Biden wants to go back to the economic surrender to China that when we took office, half of our international trade deficit was with China alone,' Pence fired back during the debate, which moved from one segment to the other every 10 minutes.

Harris slammed the Trump Administration for its handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, describing it as ‘greatest failure' of any presidential administration in the history of the US.

‘The American people have witnessed what is the greatest failure of any presidential administration in the history of our country,' she said.