What would they do if the president suffered an illness or other disability that impaired his ability to serve? With four more years of growth and opportunity, four more years of President Donald Trump, 2021 is going to be the biggest economic year in the history of this country. Gary Herbert and his wife, Jeanette, are among the guests at tonight’s debate, as well as Rep. Greg Pence, R-Ind., who is the brother of the vice president. "When I look at their plan," Pence said, "it looks a little bit like plagiarism, which is something Joe Biden knows a little bit about. For a post-debate recap and continued analysis, be sure to subscribe to The NPR Politics Podcast. Vice President Pence echoed a familiar criticism that President Trump has made of Kamala Harris — that she is the most liberal member of the U.S. Senate. HARRIS: The president said it was a hoax. Farmers have experienced bankruptcy because of it. "Is he only going to repeal part of the Trump tax cuts?"

According to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, more than 80% of Biden’s proposed tax increase would fall on the richest 5% of taxpayers.

Along with their convention speeches, the Wednesday debate will likely be their highest-profile moment during the campaign. PENCE: I would never presume how Judge Amy Coney Barrett would rule on the Supreme Court of the United States, but we’ll continue to stand strong for the right to life. In a statement, the abortion rights group NARAL called that an “intentionally inflammatory term that is not grounded in medical science.”. Sure, there have been interruptions, barbs, attempted one-liners and misstatements about the other’s policies. Harris is also bringing Deborah Gatrell, who served over two decades with the Utah National Guard as a Blackhawk pilot and now works as a high school teacher in Salt Lake County, Utah. He then added that Biden should also condemn antifa, shorthand for anti-fascists, which is described by the FBI as a movement or ideology. "We saw enough of it in last week's debate, but I think this is supposed to be a debate based on fact and truth, and the truth and the fact is Joe Biden has been very clear. His comments came hours after Trump tweeted that he was looking forward to the next debate, which is scheduled to take place in Miami on Oct. 15 — 10 days after the president was discharged from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and returned to the White House to continue treatment for COVID-19. Thanks to journalist Bob Woodward, she said, Americans know the Trump administration kept back key information about the dangers of the virus. In a 2016 debate with Hillary Clinton, Trump boasted that lowering his tax bill made him smart. People can also watch via subscription streaming services like Hulu with Live TV, Sling TV and FuboTV and on YouTube. At one point, Pence asked Harris point-blank whether she and Biden would pack the Supreme Court if they win the presidential election.

“I’ve tried to really think through what would be an approach that would work to keep the debate on track,” she told the paper. Which is why he passed a tax bill benefiting the top 1% and the biggest corporations of America, leading to a two trillion dollar deficit that the American people are going to have to pay for. But opinions differ on how useful the restrictions were. The Trump administration often points to the president’s restriction on travel from China that he imposed starting Jan. 31 as having tamped down the spread of the coronavirus and as having saved hundreds of thousands of lives. The debate stage is set for Vice President Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif. Get all the stories you need-to-know from the most powerful name in news delivered first thing every morning to your inbox. Pence, who long ago described himself as Rush Limbaugh on decaf, appears at least initially to have put Trump’s performance on decaf. She also pushed for systemic reforms, including a program that allowed first-time drug offenders an off-ramp from jail time. MSNBC will begin special coverage at 8 p.m. Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., take part in vice presidential debate in Salt Lake City. Trump disputes the Times’ report but has not offered evidence to contradict it. The trade war depressed crop prices, and farm bankruptcies jumped 20% in 2019. But it spurred online parodies from the left -- Joe Biden immediately started fundraising off the fly and created the URL "flywillvote.com" to help voters register -- and the right -- Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., lamented that the "deep state planted a bug on @VP. Biden has said he wants to take on climate change and move the U.S. toward clean energy and away from fossil fuels. Biden also wants to impose higher income and payroll taxes on those making more than $400,000, as well as tax millionaires’ dividends and capital gains at the same rate as ordinary income. Pence was referring to an exchange in 2017 with California Sen. Dianne Feinstein during Barrett’s confirmation hearing for the 7th U.S. It’s an incredibly important question, made more pressing by the fact that both Joe Biden and President Trump are in their 70s and Trump is currently coping with COVID-19. It landed as Pence was talking about whether police in the U.S. are systemically racist, and it stayed for over two minutes. If the law were to be struck down by the Supreme Court, experts say it would cause “chaos” in the health care system. Pence's doctor said in a letter released Tuesday that he does "not need to quarantine" and is "encouraged to go about his normal activities.". It should be her decision and not that of Donald Trump and the vice president, Michael Pence.”. The situation has a lot of Democrats angry and wanting to expand the number of justices on the court to counteract that conservative majority. Factories were in a slump even before the pandemic. Pence responded by arguing that Joe Biden opposed some of the Trump administration's earliest actions on the coronavirus. Expectations are high for Harris, who has been lauded for her grilling of witnesses in the Senate and for her work as a prosecutor. Page, who currently serves as the Washington bureau chief for USA Today, has worked at the publication covering White House politics since 1995.

While President Trump has repeatedly promised to offer a GOP alternative to the Affordable Care Act that would replace its protections for those with preexisting medical conditions, he has yet to do so. By that metric, compared with her colleagues in 2019, Harris was pretty liberal. The Trump campaign often claims that the recovery during the Obama administration was slow. It will have the same format as the first, but the commission has said it's considering changes aimed at making it less chaotic than the Cleveland debate. At first, the president said there was “blame on both sides,” referring to organizers and counterprotesters. Vice President Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., each brought several guests to tonight’s debate. Infanticide already is illegal, but abortion rights opponents have objected to laws allowing women to obtain abortions when severe fetal abnormalities are discovered late in pregnancy.

Fox News' Catilin McFall contributed to this report. Pence continued to talk about the military issue after being asked a question about abortion. Trump’s medical team reported Tuesday that the president had a “restful first night at home, and today he reports no symptoms” and has stable vital signs. All rights reserved. Harris and her running mate, former Vice President Joe Biden, have made criticism of Trump’s record on the coronavirus a core pitch to voters as they fight to unseat Trump and Pence from the executive office. Former Vice President Biden has been gaining on Trump in national security circles. Susan Page, USA Today's Washington bureau chief, will moderate. Neither of them answered directly, or indirectly. If all that fell in place, then Pence’s prediction could be true.

PENCE: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris want to raise taxes. The challenge for Harris will be to represent the Biden campaign line clearly and forcefully. Public health experts have called for a better-coordinated national response. "This is about a pattern of Donald Trump's where he has referred to our men who are serving in our military as suckers and losers," Harris said.

PENCE: The American comeback is on the ballot. Health experts like Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health credit the travel restrictions for slowing down the spread. The tax cut also failed to deliver a sustained increase in economic growth. Unlike the presidential debate, topics are not being disclosed ahead of time. But when Joe Biden was vice president, they hesitated for a month. We are in a manufacturing recession because of it. Joe Biden has proposed raising the corporate tax rate from its current rate of 21% to 28% — still below the level in 2016. This is not a particularly popular idea more broadly, and Joe Biden and his running mate, Kamala Harris, have declined to say whether they would push for that if they won. ET at the University of Utah's Kingsbury Hall in Salt Lake City. “We are in the process of stockpiling vaccine doses in the single-digit million doses in the month of October, November, and then in the tens of millions of doses in November,” Slaoui said. "I'm so glad we went through a little history lesson," Harris responded before changing the topic back to the timing of the Supreme Court vacancy. Most economists don’t see the trade deficit as a critical yardstick of the nation’s economic well-being. HARRIS: Joe Biden and I are both people of faith, and it’s insulting to suggest that we would knock anyone for their faith. Analysts have said there may be a small indirect effect on most Americans by virtue of the higher corporate tax rate. As Pence mentioned, earlier on Wednesday the Justice Department unveiled charges against two British Islamic State militants, Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh (pictured above), for their alleged role in the American hostages’ deaths.