When Are Harris and Shapiro Going to Debate Again
Tonight in Conservative Media: Kamala Harris Lost and As well Smirked Too Much
Right-fly pundits were much happier with Mike Pence'due south debate functioning than the one his boss gave last week.
Conservative media organizations were confident that Mike Pence thoroughly trounced Kamala Harris during Wednesday nighttime's vice presidential debate. If yous had only read prominent correct-leaning outlets and pundits to grab upwards on the faceoff—which a snap poll on CNN said Harris won 59 per centum to 38 percent—you'd have learned that the California senator revealed herself as spineless toward Prc, insincere, and an extremist on taxes and the environment.
Birthday, conservatives were much happier about Pence'south adequately conventional functioning than they were nigh Trump's blustery arroyo during the first presidential debate last week. National Review senior political correspondent Jim Geraghty extolled the vice president's "gentle jab[s]" and power to make just about anything sound like "plainspoken Midwestern common sense." Other takes were more graphic: The Federalist's Sean Davis raved, "If concluding week's presidential debate was a dumpster fire, the VP debate between Pence and Harris was a ane-sided beatdown." He also made an Anchorman reference: "There was a horse, and a human being on fire, and Mike Pence murdered Kamala Harris with a trident." On Play tricks News, Sean Hannity compared Pence'southward performance to "a surgical strike effectively smoking out the radical policies that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris represent."
Geraghty made a shrewd bespeak that bore out in reactions to the debate on either side of the political split: "If y'all liked [Harris] earlier, yous probably loved her tonight. If you didn't like her before, you probably loathed her tonight." Perhaps relatedly, one point conservative pundits kept hitting throughout the nighttime was Harris' touch on. While many in the left and the mainstream media felt Harris was holding back (especially following Pence'due south more deceitful glosses on the Trump assistants's record), those on the right needled her as smug, fake, and cold—not unlike the gendered criticisms of Hillary Clinton's temperament during her 2016 run. Daily Wire founder Ben Shapiro accused Harris of "false sincerity, and fake outrage" and added that "her smirking isn't helping." Free Buoy correspondent Noah Pollak opined, "Harris actually has a likability problem—comes across every bit smug, condescending, snarky, insincere." And conservative radio host Cadet Sexton needled her for lacking "warmth" and also tweeted, "Every discussion that comes out of Kamala'south oral fissure and every emotion she expresses feels like information technology came from a room of overpaid DNC political consultants."
There were a few moments that conservatives seemed peculiarly keen to highlight. Immediately after the debate, well-nigh correct-leaning outlets published pieces nigh Pence cornering Harris on the question of whether she and Biden would move to pack the Supreme Court if the Senate confirms nominee Amy Coney Barrett. A piece in the Blaze, reflecting near conservatives' takeaway from the moment, reads, "Harris, but equally Biden did in the first presidential debate, sidestepped the question and refused to give a straight answer." Conservatives besides seemed pleased with Pence and Harris' sparring over fracking. The Federalist ran a slice titled, "Kamala Harris Doubles Down on Biden's Fracking Flip Flop" applauding Pence'south attacks on Biden's tape on fracking. Conservative writer Stephen Fifty. Miller similarly remarked: "Pence hits Harris & moderator on multiple answers on fracking. His best moment of night. Harris is silent." (Biden has repeatedly said he wouldn't ban fracking, a point Harris repeated on Wednesday.) The debate over the nominees' approaches to China similarly elicited bourgeois cheers. Pundits were particularly delighted by Pence's line "Lost the trade war with China? Joe Biden never fought it," in response to Harris' bespeak that the U.Due south. has lost manufacturing and farming jobs as a result of the Trump administration's hostile trade relations with China.
Fifty-fifty though conservative pundits were sure that Pence had won the debate, they nevertheless contended that the game was rigged confronting him and criticized moderator Susan Page, USA Today's Washington bureau principal, for favoring Harris. Federalist contributor Benjamin Weingarten charged that Page was "cutting off VP Pence while he'southward landing substantive blows against Harris-Biden," while Shapiro scoffed, "How exactly did Susan Page merely ask well-nigh the horrid state of the economic system without mentioning that the economy was historically booming before covid?" How indeed.
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Source: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/10/debate-conservative-media-kamala-harris-mike-pence.html
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