Following last week’s unruly debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, many Americans had hoped that Wednesday night’s vice-presidential face-off between Mike Pence and Kamala Harris might be a more civilised affair. As debate moderator Susan Page warned at the outset: “We want a debate that is lively. It was infinitely more polite and lacked the aggression and chaos of last week’s presidential debate in Cleveland. Wednesday night may have lacked the fireworks of the first presidential debate, and at times the debate dragged. Given the fall in standards and presidential decorum under Trump, that’s probably a good thing.

Source: The Irish Times October 08, 2020 05:42 UTC