Vice President Mike Pence and Democratic VP pick Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) faced off during their only vice presidential debate in Salt Lake City.
The VP debate came amid an escalating COVID-19 outbreak among White House staffers and President Trump’s departure from Walter Reed following his treatment for the infectious disease that has killed more than 200,000 Americans.
Follow along with the TPM staff’s live coverage below:
Vice President Mike Pence and Democratic VP pick Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) faced off during their only vice presidential debate in Salt Lake City.
The VP debate came amid an escalating COVID-19 outbreak among White House staffers and President Trump’s departure from Walter Reed following his treatment for the infectious disease that has killed more than 200,000 Americans.
Follow along with the TPM staff’s live coverage below:
Just wanted to point out that the plexiglass barriers between the candidates will be pretty irrelevant as a preventive measure. When you see plexiglass barriers deployed it is intended to function like a salad bar’s “sneeze guard”, to stop liquid exhalations and expectorations, which works in situations like a supermarket checkout stand with brief person-to-person encounters. But covid-19 also transmits via aerosolized particles from simple breathing, and those move with the air flow. If you spend 90 minutes in an enclosed room with an infected person it’s pretty hard to avoid inhaling some virus. A standalone barrier does nothing about that.
Still good political theater to have a symbol of covid-19 on stage every minute. But if Kamala gets infected from Pence, it’ll be due to virus hitching a ride on aerosolized particles.
That’s alright. Pence is pretty much useless, too.
Is Pence going to arrive too late for a test and will be let in on the honor system, tonight?
Of course. A religious person like him can’t possibly lie.
I totally agree with this comment. Would a mask be too much?