Day 1,357: Even Mike Pence couldn’t defend Donald Trump at VP debate
The vice presidential candidates debated at the University of Utah on Wednesday. While Kamala Harris routinely hit Donald Trump’s record on this issues that matter most — COVID-19, healthcare the economy, social justice — Mike Pence was forced to deflect.
Asked to answer basic questions about the above, Pence, the biggest fraud and lapdog in the Trump administration, had no response.
On healthcare, like it’s the year 2016, Pence alluded to protecting pre-existing conditions with a still-unseen healthcare plan. Four years in office have produced nothing. Meanwhile, he had no response for the Trump administration’s support for a case before the Supreme Court that would eliminate the Affordable Care Act and remove healthcare from tens of millions of Americans.
On COVID-19, Pence, the head of the White House coronavirus task force, deflected criticism by pointing out that while 210,000 Americans have died from the disease in the U.S., roughly 12,000 Americans died from H1N1 while Biden was vice president in 2009. Pence thought his best argument was pointing to Biden’s handling of disease that killed less than 17 times as many people (as the COVID-19 death toll rises).
Regarding jobs and the economy, Pence tried to highlight the first three years, while ignoring the past one. When Harris pointed out that they were merely riding the coattails of the Obama administration, and Pence voted against bailing out the automobile industry, a visibly flustered Pence pivoted back to rambling about the coronavirus.
Even when he was asked a question about whether he would support states banning all abortion, the ardently anti-choice Pence refused to answer, knowing his true belief is heavily opposed by most Americans.
The one thing he followed his boss’s lead on: refusing to accept the results of the election in the event that the Trump-Pence ticket loses.
Pence sat on a stage for 90 minutes and did everything he could to avoid speaking substantively about topics. Even he knew, Trump’s positions are largely indefensible.
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