‘Mr Vice President, I’m speaking’: Harris stops Pence interrupting her at debate
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Senator Kamala Harris stopped vice president Mike Pence from interrupting his opponent at the 2020 vice presidential debate as the senator criticised the administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. Mr Pence leads the White House coronavirus task force.
She said the vice president had defended the president – who was aware of the severity of the crisis despite his public efforts to downplay Covid-19 – because “the president wanted people to remain calm.”
Mr Pence, trying to “weigh in,” was told by Senator Harris: “Mr Vice President, I’m speaking.”
“I want to ask the American people: how calm were you when you were panicked about where you were going to get your next roll of toilet paper?” she said, looking into the camera. “How calm were you when your kids were sent home from school and you didn’t know when they would go back? How calm were you when your children couldn’t see your parents because you were afraid they could kill them?”
‘Mr Vice President, I’m speaking’: Harris stops Pence interrupting her at debate
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The vice president touted the administration’s efforts to advance a vaccine and drug treatments and scale testing in the months following the outbreak.
“Whatever the vice president is claiming the administration has done, clearly it hasn’t worked, when you’re looking at 210,000 dead bodies,” Joe Biden’s running mate said.
Mr Pence said that “not a day goes by” where he does not mourn the thousand of dead Americans killed by the disease.
“You’ll always be in our hearts and our prayers,” he said.
The debate follows a chaotic presidential debate between the president and his Democratic opponent, marred by constant cross-talk and interruptions by the president, with moderator Chris Wallace unable to steer the debate.