Mike Pence was superb during the VP debate. The debate showed that Harris can recite prepared lines but did not really understand or display mastery of any particular subject. On the other hand Pence’s mastery of facts was outstanding.
Here are a few examples.
Harris made the ridiculous claim that PDJT has lost the trade war with China. Pence’s response:
Look, lost the trade war with China? Joe Biden never fought it. Joe Biden has been a cheerleader for communist China over the last several decades. And again, Senator Harris, you’re entitled to your opinion. You’re not entitled to your own facts. When Joe Biden was vice-president, we lost 200,000 manufacturing jobs.
When Harris and Susan Page, the biased moderator, returned to the Charlottesville slander about PDJT, Pence pounced.
I think this is one of the things that makes people dislike the media so much in this country, Susan, is that you selectively edit just like Senator Harris did, comments that President Trump and I and others on our side made. I mean, Senator Harris conveniently admitted after the President made comments about people on either side of the debate over monuments, he condemned the KKK, neo-Nazis and white supremacists and has done so repeatedly. You’re concerned that he doesn’t condemn neo-Nazis. President Trump has Jewish grandchildren. His daughter and son-in-law are Jewish. This is a President who respects and cherishes all of the American people.
Unspoken in this defense of the President is the fact that the previous administration did not respect and cherish all Americans. In fact, it could readily be said that the Obama-Biden administration actively denigrated different groups of Americans over their beliefs. One does not have to stretch the memory cells very much to remember Obama’s “bitter clingers” statement or Hillary Clinton calling half the country “deplorables.”
When it came to the plan for the Chinese virus, Pence pointed out the obvious plagiarism in Biden’s plan. Except for certain mandates, Biden seems to be proposing what the Trump-Pence administration has already been doing. Pence noted,
The reality is, when you look at the Biden plan, it reads an awful lot like what President Trump, and I, and our task force has been doing every step of the way. And quite frankly, when I look at their plan that talks about advancing testing, creating new PPE, developing a vaccine, it looks a little bit like plagiarism, which is something Joe Biden knows a little bit about.
With regard to a vaccine, Harris sniffed that she would refuse to take it if PDJT recommended it. Again Pence pounced. This time Pence really nailed her hide to the wall. Pence asked her to stop playing politics with American lives. (emphasis added):
The reality is that we’re going to have a vaccine, Senator, in record time. In unheard of time, in less than a year. We have five companies in phase three clinical trials. And we’re right now producing tens of millions of doses. So the fact that you continue to undermine public confidence in a vaccine, if the vaccine emerges during the Trump administration, I think is unconscionable. And Senator, I just ask you, stop playing politics with people’s lives. The reality is that we will have a vaccine, we believe, before the end of this year. And it will have the capacity to save countless American lives. And your continuous undermining of confidence in a vaccine is just, it’s unacceptable.
These are just a few examples of how VP Pence took Harris out to the woodshed. It is now time for the American public to take the Democrats to the same place and save the country for our children and grandchildren.