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What No One Should Forget About the 2020 Vice-Presidential Debate
Hint: It wasn’t anything Kamala Harris or Mike Pence said.
What will voters remember?
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No vice-presidential debate has ever made any difference to the outcome of the election, and this year’s edition won’t be the first to do so. It’s unlikely that the Wednesday night face-off between Vice President Mike Pence and Senator Kamala Harris will remain in the news beyond, say, late Thursday morning.
But sometimes an utterly forgettable debate can tell us something important.