The debate between Senator Kamala Harris of California and Vice President Mike Pence was certainly memorable. “It was, I think, the most interesting vice-presidential debate in years,” Raphael Sonenshein, the executive director of the Pat Brown Institute for Public Affairs at Cal State Los Angeles, told me. Ms. Harris, on the other hand, “didn’t go in there and try to be somebody she’s not,” he said. Mr. Sonenshein said he recognized Ms. Harris’s pointed facial expressions from her Senate debates, like in 2016, when then-Representative Loretta Sanchez dabbed onstage. Ms. Harris’s reaction was unimpressed.

Source: International New York Times October 08, 2020 12:33 UTC