Vice President Mike Pence looks at Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., as she answers a question during the vice presidential debate Wednesday on the campus of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. The good news is that the vice presidential debate was nothing like last week’s unlistenable cacophony between President Trump and Joe Biden. The bad news is that it was too much like most other debates. Even though voters could hear what the candidates were saying, it often hardly mattered. The candidates answered the questions they wanted to Wednesday night instead of the ones they were asked. Aside from the historic nature of Sen. Kamala Harris’ appearance — she was the first woman of color to appear at a vice presidential debate — the event in Salt Lake City was so civil that the social media star of the evening a fly that landed on Vice President Mike Pence’s hair and lingered for several minutes. It was a brief respite from a campaign dominated by the coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 211,000 Americans and infected more than 7.5 million. Some takeaways: Some timelines get the butterfly effect. We get the fly. […]
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