New York Daily News: MANHATTAN, NY – The debate between Kamala Harris and Mike Pence turned out to be buzz-worthy after all.
Toward the end of the 90-minutes war of words between Harris and Pence, what appeared to be a fly parked on the vice president’s white hair where it was hard to miss.
Pence’s plus-one hung-out briefly, then took on its own seemingly without being noticed by its host. It was a clear violation of the social distancing rules put in place for the debate, which included plexiglass shields between the candidates.
Former vice president Biden seized the moment as a fundraising opportunity.
“Pitch in $5 to help this campaign fly,” he tweeted alongside a photo of his flyswatter.
His campaign bought the domain name Flywillvote.com that leads to a voter registration page.
Comedian and “The Jim Jeffries Show” writer Subhah Agarwal joked that Pence may have gained ground with the minority vote that has favored the Biden-Harris ticket in polls.
“That fly is Mike Pence’s only black friend,” she wrote.
Throughout the debate, Pence was hard to stop once he got to ranting. Harris on at least one occasion shot the vice president a hard look when he interrupted and the moderator also asked him to remember the rules of discussion to which both parties had agreed.
Trump, who interrupted Biden during their disastrous debate last week, praised Pence’s performance.
“Mike Pence is doing GREAT!” he tweeted, claiming Harris was a “gaffe machine.”
- Top Feature Photo: Vice President Mike Pence listens to Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., during the vice presidential debate Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020, at Kingsbury Hall on the campus of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City – Patrick Semansky/AP
