By all accounts Mike Pence vanquished Willie Brown's girlfriend with ease and verve, but in a respectful, friendly Midwestern sort of way. We know Pence won because the media is accusing him of 'masplaining'. Also, Fox News' Cunt emeritus, Chris Wallace, thinks Harris did fine.
But does Pence's victory matter?
Readers will recall that we've long maintained Veep debates don't matter, ask Dan Quayle.
We've spent a lot of time this week testing our poll thesis. If the polls are right, Trump is toast. Can they all be wrong? So we don't think it's unfair to test our Veep thesis. We say Lloyd Bentsen's humiliation of Dan Quayle didn't matter. But Bush/Quayle was going to win no-matter what. The Federalist's Molly Hemingway tweeted last night that Pence reassured conservative voters in the 2016 Veep debate. Biden beat Ryan in 2012, it is said. That's certainly a correlation. Did Biden's win not help Obama across the finish line? Powerline argues that Veep debates help.
So maybe Pence's steady performance and vociferous defense of the administration's Covid policies reset the narrative and will mark the beginning of the Trump comeback.
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