With four weeks left until the US presidential election, Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Kamala Harris and current Vice President Mike Pence will now meet in a live television debate on Wednesday.
- This debate is perhaps a little extra important because the two candidates, not least Joe Biden are a little older and President Trump is ill.
Then a little extra attention falls on the vice presidential candidates, says Dag Blanck.
Two different parts of the United States
The two candidates represent two different parts of the United States, Dag Blanck explains.
Kamala Harris comes from California with a father from Jamaica and a mother from India.
- She represents the new demographic trends in the United States.
Mike Pence comes from Indiana, a traditional state in the Midwest and an old industrial state, says Dag Blanck.
They seem to be very different personalities, what will we see of it?
- Kamala Harris is a lawyer and she has been a prosecutor in California.
She is a good debater and goes on, we saw that not least at the hearing of Kavanaugh where she was tough, says Dag Blanck and continues:
- Pence, on the other hand, is much calmer and has a calm appearance, but is very sharp, you could say.
Will be a calmer debate
What will be the difference compared to the presidential debate we saw last week?
- It should be huge.
Pence does not have at all this style that Trump had to interrupt and go on.
I think they are both very keen that there should be a more calm and civilized tone.
Which voters are appealing to Pence and Harris?
- Harris addresses this group that is in the middle and on the left.
She is not a left-wing candidate in the Democratic Party, but she has these issues that are the traditional democratic issues.
About health insurance and about immigration, she herself is a child of immigrants, says Dag Blanck and continues:
- While Pence is deeply conservative and religious and for him, for example, the abortion issue is very important.