Key Points Made By Vice President Mike Pence in the Debate

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 Vice President Mike Pence scored some key points during his debate with Senator Kamala Harris.  This is a recap of those points.

1. President Biden will raise your taxes - Kamala Harris, like Joe Biden, stated if elected the Trump Tax Cuts will be repealed.  Pence pounced on that.  He correctly pointed out that under the Trump plan middle class families across America all got permanent tax cuts.  Therefore, repealing the Trump Tax Cuts means taxes for middle class families will increase.  

The only basis Senator Harris had for denying this obvious truth is by denying that middle class families saw their taxes cut under the Trump Tax Cuts.  That's just not true.  Millions of middle and lower income Americans benefitted from the reduction in taxes provided to them.

Opportunity missed: Pence could have added that in addition to raising taxes on middle class families, repealing the Trump Tax Cuts will restore a significant tax deduction for millionaires and billionaires.  That would be the unlimited deduction for what people pay in State taxes.  That deduction was capped under the Trump plan and directly impacted wealthy people.

2. Biden's handling of pandemics - Pence scored a big point with a fact I had forgotten.  Pence quoted a Biden aide as saying they did a horrible job managing H1N1 (also known as Swine Flu).  Pence pointed out that during the H1N1 Pandemic that occurred while Biden was Vice President, sixty (60) million Americans were infected by the virus.  Only seven (7) million Americans have been infected by Covid.  

 Pence said Biden was lucky the H1N1 was not more deadly given their terrible handling of the virus.  And he's right.  I remember Dr. Fauci discussing the previous pandemics and saying Ebola was more deadly than Covid but it didn't spread easily.  H1N1 spreads as easily as Covid but was not as deadly.

If Swine Flu had been as deadly as Coronavirus, over 1.7 million people would have died.

3. China - Senator Harris claimed President Trump's efforts to rein in China's trade imbalance was a failure.  Vice President Pence shot right back calling Biden "China's biggest cheerleader."  He was referring to Biden's support for China to enter the World Trade Organization and Biden's numerous positive comments about China over his 47 years in office.

If President Trump really has failed in his efforts to restore our standing against China economically, the question has to be raised as to how did we get to where we are.  Our standing didn't start magically right after President Trump was sworn in.  The loss of jobs and growth of China happened on Joe Biden's watch - during the course of his 47 years in office.

4. Police Reform - Senator Harris talked about what the Biden Administration will do to achieve police reform.  Vice President Pence's response called out the hypocrisy of those promises by pointing out that when Senator Tim Scott, a black Republican Senator, offered police reform legislation Senator Harris walked out of the meeting.  Later Senator Harris participated in a filibuster to kill the legislation.

If police reform is really important to her and the Biden campaign, why did she walk away and later work to defeat meaningful reform?

5. Snappy comeback - Vice President Pence used this line twice.  "You are entitled to your own opinion but you're not entitled to your own facts."  I believe that was the line.  And it's a good one, immediately pointing out to viewers and listeners that Senator Harris' declarative statement was not true and opening the door for his response.

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