US Vice President Mike Pence and Joe Biden's running mate Kamala Harris (photomontage).
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As a somewhat morbid political maxim goes, a vice-president is "only a heartbeat from the presidency".
This is particularly true for Mike Pence and Kamala Harris: whatever happens, the winner of the duel between Donald Trump (74) and Joe Biden (77) will be the oldest president ever elected in the United States.
And the coronavirus, with the infection of the American president, which upset the final sprint of this campaign, makes this televised debate between “lieutenants” a particularly eagerly awaited oral hearing.
The Covid-19 will be at the center of the arena - literally.
A plexiglass barrier will separate the two candidates, a measure demanded by the Democrat as the vice president was exposed to a dozen people infected in late August at the White House.
On Tuesday morning, Kamala Harris, 55, and Mike Pence, 61, both confirmed they had tested negative.
With more than 200,000 dead, the former prosecutor is expected to deliver a scathing indictment against the management of the pandemic by the Trump administration, with a "task force" led by Mike Pence.
The vice-president will undoubtedly attack the relative inexperience of Kamala Harris, who is completing her first term as a senator from California.
And accuse him, like Donald Trump, of being in the hands of "the radical left" with his past support (on which she has since returned) to the "Medicare for all" plan of Bernie Sanders, who wanted to suppress private health insurance for the benefit of public social security.
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this duel between the "fire" Kamala Harris, who often sparks, and the "ice" Mike Pence, able to get angry without raising the tone.
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