Harris was more believable, more skilled and overall presented a better case for her campaign, but I'd say Pence won simply because he didn't have to do as much. #VPDebate
A political debate is not a contest of ideas. Pence's entire job was to lay out a case (credible or not) for re-electing Trump so that those who already want to vote for him can give themselves permission to do so. That's why he didn't bother with the questions. #VPDebate
Harris' best approach would have been to de-legitimise Pence, and thereby Trump, but she treated him with too much respect. Just as Biden did with Trump. #VPDebate
Biden and Harris are playing conventional politics against guerrilla warfare. Her lines should have been:
"Four years ago Republicans tried to make us believe Mike Pence would be a controlling influence on Trump, but all you've done is enable his chaotic debasement of American values. Under your "controlling influence" America is at the brink of crisis."
"You've led a Coronavirus task force that is the laughing stock of the developed world. So inept that 210,000 Americans are dead. So inept you couldn't even prevent the President and 34 members of this dysfunctional White House from getting it."
Harris had to paint Pence himself as as much of a lightweight, conman and liar as Trump, and it would have been easy to do. But she didn't. Instead she attacked a record so bad its failure is obvious, and thereby allowed Pence to defend the indefensible. #VPDebate
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