OPINION
Pence effectively went after Harris — and a very biased moderator: Goodwin
By Michael Goodwin
October 8, 2020 | 12:06am | Updated
Going into Wednesday’s showdown, Mike Pence had two big jobs. One, to defend the Trump administration’s record, especially its response to the pandemic. Two, convincingly paint the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris ticket as the most radical national nominees a major party has ever put forward.
Mission accomplished. Pence is a skilled and disciplined debater, and his understated manner masks a killer instinct. He was always good, terrific at times and put on a clinic in how to methodically carve up an opponent.
Whether it matters in the big scheme of things is a separate question.
Maybe a little, which is to say not nearly enough to change the dynamics of the race.
Pence seemed hesitant initially, but quickly rose to the moment and grew increasingly better at seizing openings and turning around biased questions from moderator Susan Page to go on offense. By the end of the evening, he had clearly won the debate.
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On China, he delivered the hammer, saying: “Joe Biden’s been a cheerleader for Communist China over the last several decades.”
He also succeeded at laying out Harris’ voting record as being “more liberal than Bernie Sanders’.”
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There is one change that must be made, however: the moderators. The system of selecting career Washington correspondents is outdated and an obvious case of implicit bias when a president remains a disrupter to both parties and the ruling establishment.
Page, the Washington bureau chief for USA Today, followed in the footsteps of many of her predecessors by playing an outsize and inappropriate role. She did that with her questions, which sounded like they were ripped from the headlines of the Trump-hating Washington Post and New York Times.
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Posed as questions, they conveyed an obvious sense of favoritism to the Democrats’ agenda.
On the Supreme Court, Page didn’t ask the most important question of all — whether Harris and Biden would expand it to include more justices. Instead, she asked what would happen to abortion rights if the court overturned Roe v. Wade.
That’s a big issue, but not the only one. And certainly the push by many on the left to pack the court with liberals by creating new seats if they control both houses of Congress as well as the White House merits an answer.
Moderator Chris Wallace let Biden off the hook at the presidential debate when he refused to give a straight answer, and Page didn’t even bother asking Harris.
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"Moderator Chris Wallace let Biden off the hook at the presidential debate when he refused to give a straight answer, and Page didn’t even bother asking Harris."
So, there must be something hard to understand!...
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Pence raised the issue several times, and Harris refused to answer, and Page let it slide. That’s a major mistake and voters deserve to know the answer — or at least have the candidates embarrassed by their failure to give one....
While Pence was clever enough to work issues Page ignored into the conversation without being rude or interrupting, the rules and time limits gave Harris easy routes of escape.
That’s no way to run a debate, yet it keeps happening and will come up again in the next presidential debate.
Here’s my simple suggestion: Let the candidates talk to each other. That’s what people want to hear.
Otherwise, the only rule should be this: The moderator is the best who moderates the least.
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