The Vice-Debats were a success

They passed much better than between presidential candidates Trump and Bayden

The debate of candidates for vice presidents showed that the traditions of an acute open political discussion in the United States are still working. And if the debate is compared with the political theater, then we can say: on Wednesday evening, the performance was a success.

Three actors participated in it: the current vice-president of the Republican Mike Pence, Kamal Harris, a candidate from the Democratic Party, the first woman-speaker in the history of African American and Asian roots, as well as Suzan Page-the moderator of the discussion, the Washington correspondent of the USA Today newspaper.

The "debate of vice-" is of particular interest. According to the Constitution, Pence or Harris will take the highest post in the country if the president is not able to fulfill his duties. I must say, both candidates passed the exam.

As a survey of spectators showed, 63% believe that Kamala Harris will be able to work as president, for Pence this figure is even higher - 65%.

The audience of the liberal channel CNN is convinced that Harris won the debate - 59% against 38%. The spectators of the conservative Fox News numbers “exactly the opposite”: 63% gave the victory of Penca and 37% - Harris. Voting in the studio among the undivided voters of Arizona shared their voices equally.

Against the backdrop of mutual insults and the scandalous slurred of the first round between Trump and Bayden, the “vice-” can be called exemplary and constant. In 90 minutes, it was possible to discuss 10 topics, several dozen acute issues were heard and only a couple of times the opponents left direct answers to them.

The Pandemia of Coronavirus and the Presidential Fet disease made adjustments to the organization of debate in Salt Lake City, the capital of Utah, which is still called "Mormons". Pence and Harris were “divorced” at an additional distance of 12 feet - 3.65 meters and installed two transparent partitions from a plexiglass between them. The gathered in the hall put on masks.

It is especially interesting that the Pence and Harris are two opposites: the conservative, the favorite of the American evangelists, the unperturbed and methodical against the “most liberal Senator of the United States, to the left of Bernie Sanders” (determination of Newsweek magazine).

Mike Pence was calm even when a fly sat down on his gray hair and held on his head for several minutes, which caused streams of messages on social networks. The publication Politico called the fly the main star of the evening. Mina Harris - Kamaly's niece - wrote on Twitter: “Kamala cleverly won the debate. The fly took second place. "

Harris asked the indictment by the first answer to the question about the pandemic Covid-19: "The American people witnessed the greatest failure of the presidential administration in the history of our country." And all 90 minutes in the same spirit. Harris accused Trump of paying little or not paying federal income taxes for the last decade: “When I heard“ $ 750 ”, I thought that it was a reservation - it should be 750 thousand!” She claimed that Trump unleashed an unsuccessful trade war with China (300 thousand lost jobs), threatened the country's security with his reckless foreign policy. I did not pass by a relationship with Putin, accusing Trump that he "hugs with dictators around the world." Harris recalled that the CIA reported that Russian military intelligence secretly proposed awards for the murder of coalition servicemen, including Americans, in Afghanistan. The New York Times, who verified the accuracy of the offensive statements, clarifies: Trump called reports of the awards “mystification”, but Secretary of State Mike Pompeo took them seriously enough to warn his Russian colleague Lavrov.

Another accusation, one might say, is classic: “Donald Trump, the Supreme Commander of the United States of America, prefers to take the word to Vladimir Putin, and not American intelligence.” Comment “New York Times”: Harris had in mind the history of the president of the special services conclusions that Russia intervened in the 2016 elections on his side and that this year Moscow was trying to do it again. In July 2018, in Helsinki, Trump stood next to Putin and made it clear that he believes him, and not his own. “They (scouts) said they think that this is Russia,” Trump said then. - I have President Putin; He simply said that this is not Russia. I will say the following: I do not see the reasons why Russia is responsible for interfering in the elections. President Putin was extremely strong in his denial. "

But, as Los Angeles Times notes, Harris could not confuse the pence and did not force to abandon the counterattack script, which he led in a calm tone, never recalling Trump's manners.

“Critics and even some friends of the hot -tempered president suggested that the White House needs an adult to present the world a more sober and serious face. This task often falls to the share of a pence, a phlegmatic resident of the Middle West and a devout Christian. On Wednesday evening, peace of mind rarely left his face, it has been unchanged since he was a congressman, the governor of Indiana and the unshakable supporter of Trump. ”

Pence introduced the statistics of the administration’s achievements: reduction of taxes by an average of two thousand dollars for each family of four, the restoration of 11.4 million jobs after a collapse of the economy caused by pandemia (though 22 million were lost, and 30 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits).

Most of all, Harris spoke about coronavirus also because the penalty in the administration officially heads the coordinating body to combat pandemia. Harris recalled that this did not prevent her opponent from appearing at events without a mask and not observing the social distance. Democrats promise the Americans a free accessible vaccine. Harris said that she would get vaccinated only after doctors recognize the vaccine safe. “If one Trump says that the vaccine works, I will refrain from vaccination.” The president on the eve of accused medical officials from FDA - the management of quality control of food and medicine - in creating obstacles to the vaccine from the virus. The president is not satisfied with the new rules for the fight against Covid-19, he wants the American vaccine to be approved by the Office before the elections. Trump accused FDA of “political activity”, but critics note that this is the president in their interests puts pressure on the doctors, jeopardizing millions of Americans.

Pence spent most of the evening on the defense, but did everything he could, even critics recognize it. He drew a gloomy picture of the arrival of the democratic administration, saying that Biden and Harris would make America a place of "new taxes, new regulation and economic concessions to China." “You put your radical ecological agenda above American automotive traders,” said the Pence of the Green Doctrine of Democrats. Harris recalled that Obama and Biden were not allowed to die the local car industry during the recession. And in general, the economic achievements that Trump was so proud of were laid down by the previous administration of the Democrats.

Living where “parliament is not a place for discussion”, where the president calls everyone who disagree “Banderalogs”, and the Western political culture of the “theater” remains to be quietly envious. Televalia can be a theater, but this is the case when there is no pre -written final in the play, the troupe does not consist of one actor and a carefully selected mass, where a telephoto lenses objectively shows the votor who is “hu”. Elections are actually choosing from the word.