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Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan
She really just needed to play defence and not give Pence an opportunity to change the narrative. I doubt the debate mattered at all, which likely helps the Biden ticket in that one more opportunity for Trump to shake things up has slipped away.
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This I think is an important point.
Biden campaign is currently about as much ahead as anyone expected them to ever be, possibly more so. This isn't a time to swing for the fences in a VP debate. The Trump campaign desperately needed a win, Dems just needed to not give them anything and make sure Harris comes out looking like a reasonable, non-threatening, qualified politician.
If Harris does anything that stands out too much, the Republicans could go all in on "this crazy terrorist socialist liberal black woman could be the next president, you really want that, it would be the end of America!?!?!" and that might work, because as we all know they're a really sexist and racist country.
That was the real game here, and Pence clearly lost and Harris won.
It will likely not move any needles, but it wasn't supposed to be. What it will likely do is calm down some voters who were already leaning Biden but quietly worried about Harris.