The dynamics of Wednesday night’s vice presidential debate represented a rare 2020 return to some semblance of normal presidential politics.
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In VP debate, Plexiglas an extra participant on the stage
The partitions dividing Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris were a clear reminder that the coronavirus pandemic rages on.
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Pence and Harris spar over pandemic in vice presidential debate
Both candidates sidestep some difficult questions, in a debate far more respectful than the opening presidential debate eight days earlier.
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Five questions as Pence, Harris prepare for debate
Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris meet on the debate stage for the first and only time Wednesday night in Utah.
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Kamala Harris and Mike Pence set to debate as virus spreads at White House
The candidates are less likely to sling the sort of attacks that highlighted the Sept. 29 debate in Cleveland between President Trump and Joe Biden.
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Pence, Harris teams at odds over Plexiglas dividers at vice presidential debate
Vice President Mike Pence’s team argues that the dividers are a medically unnecessary safety measure because the distance between the candidates was extended to 12 feet.
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Trump considered Ivanka as 2016 running mate, book says
Donald Trump repeatedly discussed with advisers the idea of naming his daughter Ivanka as his running mate in 2016 before settling for Mike Pence, according to a former Trump campaign aide who became a star witness in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. Rick Gates, who in the summer of 2016 was Trump’s deputy campaign chairman, […]
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Maine Voices: Republican social Darwinists buy into illusory COVID herd immunity
That avowed pro-lifers are advocating letting the unfit perish for the sake of the fit is nothing short of paradoxical.
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Former Pence aide will vote for Biden because of Trump’s ‘flat out disregard for human life’ during pandemic
Olivia Troye joins a growing number of former officials who have detailed their worries about what happened during their time in the administration while declaring that Trump is unfit to be president.
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Trump praises, Pence decries QAnon ‘conspiracy theory’
Vice President Mike Pence is drawing a line between himself and President Donald Trump, who has retweeted QAnon-supporting accounts.