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Vice Presidential Debate

  1. the national circus
    Trump Is Flailing and Pence Did Nothing to HelpThe vice-president barely even tried to answer for his boss’s catastrophic COVID failure at Wednesday night’s debate.
    By Frank Rich
  2. vision 2020
    Trump Calls Kamala Harris a ‘Monster’In an appearance on Fox Business, the amped-up president also called for the arrest of his political opponents.
    By Benjamin Hart
  3. vision 2020
    Pence Failed at His One Debate Job: Shifting the Focus From COVID-19After the VP debate, the campaign still revolves around COVID-19 spreading through the White House and Trump’s terrible pandemic response.
    By Ed Kilgore
  4. vice-presidential debate
    Mike Pence Had a Fly on His Head for Almost Two Minutes During the VP DebateIt wasn’t the ideal viral image to emerge from a debate in which Pence was tasked with showing that the White House was in control of its outbreak.
    By Matt Stieb
  5. vice-presidential debate
    Highlights From the 2020 Vice-Presidential DebateIt was a far more orderly affair than last week’s debacle, Harris hammered Pence on the White House pandemic response, and there was a fly.
    By Chas Danner and Matt Stieb
  6. vision 2020
    Vice-Presidential Debate Moderator Hosted Party Honoring Pence ProtégéIn D.C., journalists and the powerful people they cover are often friends. Is that a problem when it comes to moderating a high-stakes debate?
    By Ed Kilgore
  7. The Kaine-Pence Veep Debate Was One of the Lowest-Rated EverOnly Cheney-Lieberman in 2004 and Kemp-Gore in 2000 fared worse.
    By Josef Adalian
  8. Trump’s VP Debate Live-Tweeting Was Overseen by Staffers. It Was Still Weird.While Mike Pence debated, Trump feuded with Megyn Kelly and likened Tim Kaine to a Batman villain.
    By Eric Levitz
  9. master debaters
    Video Recap: The Vice-Presidential Debate in Three MinutesIt was more than just a Joe Biden giggle-fest.
    By Sarah Frank
  10. joetorious
    Biden’s Constant Debate Laughter Was Either Delightful or Totally DisrespectfulDepends on whether you found Ryan’s answers hilarious.
    By Margaret Hartmann and Sarah Frank
  11. master debaters
    Heilemann: Biden Will Get Personal at Debate“If he doesn’t talk about his mother, father, children, grandchildren, and grandparents tonight, I will be shocked.”
    By Sarah Frank
  12. master debaters
    Veep Zingers for Joe Biden and Paul RyanJust imagine if these guys could curse.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  13. veepstakes
    John Heilemann on NOW With Alex Wagner: The Biden-Ryan MatchupBiden won’t hold back as he did against Palin, Heilemann says.
    By Sarah Frank
  14. instant politics
    James Fallows and Katie Roiphe on Sarah Palin Winking Her Way Through the DebateJames Fallows of ‘The Atlantic’ and Katie Roiphe, the author, most recently, of ‘Uncommon Arrangements,’ discuss Sarah Palin’s flirtatiousness last night, and which voters she was really winking at.