{"id":84409,"date":"2020-10-08T06:51:15","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T03:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/pence-does-well-hitting-harris-but-election-is-all-about-trump\/"},"modified":"2020-10-08T06:51:15","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T03:51:15","slug":"pence-does-well-hitting-harris-but-election-is-all-about-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/pence-does-well-hitting-harris-but-election-is-all-about-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"#Pence does well hitting Harris, but election is all about Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Pence does well hitting Harris, but election is all about Trump<\/strong>”
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\n At the vice-presidential debate, Kamala Harris baldly claimed a President Joe Biden would do things it would not be in his power to do \u2014 like eliminate a tax-cut law passed by Congress on Day One and ban cash bail and choke holds, which are largely governed by state law \u2014 while refusing to answer Mike Pence\u2019s forceful and repeated question about whether she and Biden would work to pack the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just want the record to reflect she never answered the question,\u201d Pence said in the sharpest moment of the night. Pence was focused and determined, and often returned to score a point on an earlier question after formulating a clear answer during Harris\u2019s time.<\/p>\n

For Republicans distressed by Donald Trump\u2019s outrageous and perplexing behavior over the past week, Pence offered a calming 90 minutes of plain and simple political competence. The news<\/a> and the polling have been so bad that for this relief they are certain to give much thanks.<\/p>\n

That said, I don\u2019t think Pence won the debate because I don\u2019t think Harris lost the debate. She was evasive at times, but she hit her marks and made the points she had clearly spent weeks honing.<\/p>\n

Most notably if not most interestingly, she hammered home without any shame a total change in her position and Biden\u2019s position on the oil-extraction practice known as \u201cfracking,\u201d saying flatly (as Biden has) that he would not ban fracking when both of them said repeatedly in 2019 that they would.<\/p>\n

That shameless policy switcheroo is about one thing and one thing only \u2014 fracking-dependent Pennsylvania, the state that Trump must absolutely win if he is to have any chance of prevailing in November. Biden is leading there in the poll averages, and he\u2019s clearly going to do whatever hypocritical thing it takes to try and end Trump\u2019s political life there.<\/p>\n

She began by saying that the Trump administration\u2019s response to COVID was the worst presidential failure in American history, which was a strikingly grand claim but an arguable one, given the scale of the COVID crisis.<\/p>\n

Pence reacted angrily by saying Harris was insulting the American people who have sacrificed so much to play their role in combating and mitigating and fighting the disease.<\/p>\n

It was a nervy deflection, so nervy that it reminded me a little of Otter in \u201cNational Lampoon\u2019s Animal House\u201d marching his fraternity brothers out a college disciplinary hearing by claiming that the attack on their frat was an attack on the United States of America. <\/p>\n

Pence pushed Harris on issue after issue \u2014 her ticket\u2019s slipperiness on the Green New Deal, their discomfort with the raid that killed Iranian terror master Qassam Solemani, and her own record as a prosecutor. Harris mostly did not take the bait, but said she would not be lectured by Pence on criminal-justice matters.
Whether you thought she was emoting improperly or taking a passionate stand on behalf of herself and other women of color is a total Rorschach test. I thought it was cheap but then, I would, which is my point.<\/p>\n

Alas, the substantive aspects of the evening were largely meaningless because this election is about one thing \u2014 Trump. Trump, Trump, Trump. His inconstancy on issues, and Biden\u2019s absolute determination to be nothing more than the Not Trump, made it hard to focus even though the discussion was relatively civil and about matters other than personalities.<\/p>\n

One mark of how the words at any debate can be overtaken by unforeseen events was the fact that for about three minutes in the last half-hour, a bug evidently got caught in Mike Pence\u2019s spritzed coif and stayed there while he spoke and while he didn\u2019t\u2014making it impossible to pay the slightest attention to the words he spoke.<\/p>\n

\u201cWaiter,\u201d Pence should have said, \u201cthere\u2019s a fly in my hair.\u201d<\/p>\n

That would have been the greatest moment in debate history.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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