What Went Down During The Vice Presidential Debate

Well, Harris is really going for it — she’s basically presenting the election as a referendum on the Trump administration’s COVID-19 response. Although as Kaleigh noted, she is just criticizing Trump, rather than saying what the Biden administration would have done differently!

It’s honestly such a shock to see both candidates playing by the rules. My brain can’t quite process this. Why is no one yelling?

Pence begins his pandemic answer by talking about China. Trump obviously has called COVID-19 “The China virus” which is pretty obviously racist. But blaming China for the spread of the disease has become a pretty common fall-back line for the Trump campaign. As Nate points out, pretty awkward when there’s a huge cluster of cases at the place where he works.